Such great promise that founders on the central character’s relentless awfulness.
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I Saw the TV Glow (2024)
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I really didn’t enjoy this film. It felt like a drama camp improv piece with funding. Having spoken to a queer friend afterward though, they have given me lots of links to articles on how it is a trans metaphor and groundbreaking in a lot of ways.
Continue readingBlackout (2023)
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Late night B grade horror is a bit of a MIFF treat but I think I knew 10 minutes in that this one was not going to be a ‘so bad, it’s good one’.
Continue readingMenus-Plaisirs – Les Troisgros (2023)
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Secret Mall Apartment (2024)
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This is one of those delightful stories you can’t believe is true but you’re so glad it is.
Continue readingThe Substance (2024)
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I think what threw me about this often delightful, often gross body horror was the expectation from reading the synopsis that it was feminist. It has made me muse on what my expectations are when that term is applied to a film, and I think it is about more than putting women’s stories at the centre, It’s about stories of women’s power and autonomy.
Continue readingA Different Man (2024)
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This was not what I was expecting at all. It’s an oddly torturous, funny, thought-provoking story of a man who has significant facial disfigurement.
Continue readingThe Damned (2024)
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Tolkien (2019)
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JRR Tolkien was my first major literary crush. Watership Down was a first love and paved the way for 17 years as a vegetarian and refusal to ever eat rabbit but reading The Lord of the Rings in my teens began a long-lasting love of epic fantasy. I read and reread it many times in my teens and 20s and owned pretty much every published book by or about Tolkien until his estate began churning out unpublished, and unfinished works.
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Charming and mostly predictable, Poms is like spending a cosy afternoon with wine and a good friend.
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