Times are weird right now and staying in and having plans cancelled almost every day can easily get you down. If you are someone like me and look forward to winter’s end for the dawn of spring and summer it can be extra tough. Hopefully things get back to normal sooner rather than later and…
Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) (2020)
“…But it turns out, I wasn’t the only dame in Gotham looking for emancipation.” – Harley Quinn (Birds of Prey) The start of the year is always a particularly dry month as far as films are concerned. Award season darlings eat up the market during the holiday season and leave behind a dry wasteland till…
Miss Americana (2020)
“A nice girl doesn’t force her opinions on people. A nice girl smiles and waves and says thank you. I became the person everyone wanted me to be.” – Taylor Swift from Miss Americana Documentaries done on famous people that are intimate and made in collaboration with the subject can often be scrutinized. People may…
Sticking it to Fascism – To Be or Not to Be (1942) / Jojo Rabbit (2019)
Jojo – “What did they do?” Rosie – “What they could.” Handling fascism in film can be a bit of a thin line to walk. It is something that has left an undeniable scar upon the human race and a way of thinking that is still quite prevalent today. It can be sensitive to figure…
What I Saw in September and October
I decided last month to combine September and October into one post. The reason being that my September was taken up with the Calgary International Film Festival which you have already seen my reviews posted for. Beyond the festival and also a trip out of town I only managed to catch one film in September….
CIFF Review – Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019)
“They summoned Eurydice and gave her to him, but upon one condition: that he would not look back at her as she followed him, until they had reached the upper world. So the two passed through the great doors of Hades to the path which would take them out of the darkness, climbing up and…
CIFF Review – Parasite (2019)
Unless you’ve been sleeping under a rock for the past few months then you have definitely heard all the chatter spreading through the inter webs concerning Parasite. The society and class thriller from the sharp mind of Bong Joon-ho is so many things (thriller, comedy, satire and subversive horror) all wrapped into one neatly wrapped…
CIFF Review – The August Virgin (2019)
The August Virgin is a Spanish film directed by Jonas Trueba who shares co-writing duties with lead actress Itsaso Arana. I saw this film on a blustery, chilly and snowy weekend… Worlds away from the sun drenched heat of Madrid as portrayed in the film. In that way it was like a brief refuge from…
CIFF Review – Greener Grass (2019)
Before I dig into this pastel hued nightmare let me just get a few things off my chest. I wanted to love Greener Grass so much, I can’t stress that enough. I saw the trailer and was intrigued; the twisted take on suburbia and the sun-drenched preppy fever dream were all waggling a finger for me…
CIFF Review – Another Child (2019)
Another Child is a South Korean drama directed by Kim Yoon-seok who also stars in the film as well. This was a bit of a sleeper on my original list for the festival, it looked to have promise and I was curious to see how the much exercised “affair” trope would be handled. What I can…
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