First film back at the GFT since coronavirus lockdown, and this is exactly the type of film I wanted to see. Totally weird, an unknown entity, and best appreciated in the cinema. Max Richter’s Sleep is a documentary about an 8-hour piece of music meant to be experienced while sleeping. Never heard of it. So…
So, we’re in quarantine, all the cinemas are closed and several festivals have had to cancel or cut themselves short. Does this mean I won’t review new films I desperately wanted to see at the cinema, but are now available on demand? Does it fuck! Just watched Color Out of Space. It’s actually really good.…
It is an examination of the invention and propagation of psychological torture techniques. As you can imagine, grim. It starts with the experiments carried out by Scottish psychiatrist Ewen Cameron on Canadian mental patients in the 1950s. God only knows what he was trying to do, but his ideas for rewiring the brain were taking…
The one thing everyone knows about The Nightingale is its depiction of sexual violence. I understand that for some people this can be triggering and, if that’s the case, fine, don’t watch this movie. But this is a depiction portrayed from the female character’s perspective, by a female director, to shine a light on the…
Q: What do you get if you cross a mentally ill person with a society that abandons them? A: You get exactly what you fucking deserve. This is the mission statement of Joker. Gotta say, when this movie first started, I didn’t think I was gonna like it. The writing is obvious and heavy-handed, to…
The opening shot of this movie stands for the whole. It begins with the director filming her baby daughter in the hospital, playing with her as the baby tries to chew her own feet, when suddenly BANG! and she’s up and carrying the baby out the room, a friend takes her and yells, “Get downstairs!”…
Really liked it. It has more of an arthouse feel than Hereditary, and its pacing is slower and more soporific. I can understand why some audiences wouldn’t be expecting that, and wanted more action, but I really dug it. It’s been most frequently compared to the Wicker Man, but I think that’s mostly because it’s…
I love going to see shit horror movies with my sister. So imagine my disappointment when our plans were thwarted as we discovered that Ma is actually good. And not, good for a shit horror movie good. But actually good. Good for a horror, good for a drama. Rather than being about teens versus the…
A powerful documentary film about Nadia Murad, a survivor of the Yazidi genocide. It is a film about the performance of trauma, how it is necessary for the media to spread awareness of an issue effectively and to bring the reality of abstract policy to politicians. But also how damaging, and at times surreal, it…
Documentary about the American Supreme Court judge Ruth Bader Ginsberg. Very interesting. At 85, she’s doing push-ups and holding planks and writing dissenting opinions on sexist and racist rulings. She does seem like a machine, getting about 2 hours sleep some nights, and not missing a day at work despite suffering from ass and pancreas…