Veteran documentary maker Maureen Judge presents us with a film which follows 5 doll collectors from different places, of different ages and who collect very different dolls. Continue reading
Advice from Women Directors: ‘Don’t Listen to Naysayers…Just Do It.”
The indie film world is traditionally where women can find a place for themselves. A range of grants and funds specifically designed to encourage women to make films both narrative and documentary means more than ever they are making inroads into the indie scene. The 22nd annual Raindance Film Festival was the perfect place to catch up with some female filmmakers from around the world at different places in their careers. Continue reading
The Quiet Hour
Dakota Blue Richards plays Sarah, a young girl trying to survive in the aftermath of an alien invasion with her blind brother Tom (Jack McMullen). Into their lives comes Jude (Karl Davies) a man looking for sanctuary being chased by a group of pursuers who are after revenge and more. Continue reading
The Supreme Price
If you’re anything like me you have probably never heard of M.K.O. Abiola, the man who won the democratic elections in Nigeria in 1993, (due to the military regime not wanting to give up power was never recognised by them as being president), and you will not have heard of his wife Kudirat (one of M.K.O.’s 4 wives) who upon his post-election imprisonment took over the pro-democracy campaign until she, like her husband, was killed. Continue reading
The Killing (US version) Seasons 1-3
This box set of the 1st 3 seasons of the US version of The Killing is an interesting mixed bag, I mean box…whatever.
If like me you have seen the Danish version (Forbrydelsen) then you too will have fallen in love with Sarah Lund, her jumpers and her unapologetic obsessions with winning at all costs. Continue reading
God Help The Girl
3 young people living in Scotland joined together by their love of music and whimsy. Eve (Emily Browning) has mental health problems and writes songs to escape to a different world. She meets James (Olly Alexander) who is a guitarist and unlikely lifeguard. Together they use music to work through the trials of being early twenty-somethings. Continue reading
Attila Marcel
Paul (Guillaume Gouix) is a sweet unassuming man-child in his 30s who lives with his aunties and plays piano in their dance studio. He hasn’t said a word since he saw his parents untimely death whilst a toddler. Continue reading
Locke
Ivan Locke (Tom Hardy) is a supposed everyman, works hard and has a wife and family. On the eve of a major career accomplishment he makes a decision that will pretty much explode his whole happy set up. Continue reading
Finding Vivian Maier
In 2007 John Maloof bid on a box of negatives looking for some photos to accompany a history book he was writing, what he unwittingly discovered was some of the work of an unknown street photographer called Vivian Maier. Continue reading
Obvious Child
Donna (Jenny Slate) is a late 20s stand-up comic with a day job in a bookstore, the film begins with her boyfriend dumping her in the toilets of the bar she does her routines in. As part of her recovery she at some point does the natural thing; gets drunk with a nice looking bloke (Max played with wry face pulling by Jake Lacey) and has a one night stand. Continue reading
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