https://youtu.be/yj5DP6rqyN4 Directed by Eion Macken Ireland USA/ 2020/96 mins ★★ Unable to separate itself from the distinctly obvious inspirations of Danny Boyle’s Trainspotting, Here Are The Young Men lowers the age of the principal cast and centres on three lads finishing school and emerging into the cruel and waiting world. The transgression of youth is a staple of cinematic … Continue reading Here Are The Young Men – Review
https://youtu.be/aGvn-zo9N0U Directed by Gavin Maxwell and William Townsend ★★★★ Convenience comes with a cost. The meal-deal you purchase each day whilst avoiding work, the freshly squeezed juice you treat yourself to, and that’s not even to mention the endless coffee cups littering the streets and parks. We’ve become too accustomed to an era of immediate … Continue reading Anthropecene: The Human Era – GymJame Theatre/Oxford Playhouse
Created by Tom Bailey Direction of Photography by Jack Offord ★★★★★ Twenty-six thousand. This is the number of species listed on the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s ‘Red List’. In a collaboration between Mechanimal and Pound Arts, Tom Bailey’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2019 smash has been recorded at the Pound Arts Centre, infusing the … Continue reading Vigil – Mechanimal & Pound Arts
https://youtu.be/0v27rfaoB2Y Directed by Kevin Lewis Screenplay by G.O. Parsons USA/ 2021/ 88 mins ★★ Anyone who has spent more than five minutes perusing the labyrinth of YouTube will likely have come across a peculiar franchise. A name whispered in internet forums with dedicated theorists, fanatical fans, and a deep, twisted, and confusing lore. Five Nights At … Continue reading Willy’s Wonderland – Review
https://youtu.be/8G9cRhnm0sE Directed by Yudai Yamaguchi & Jun’ichi Yamamoto Japan/ 2005/ 90 mins ★★ There’s something that the cinematic triumphs share with the more peculiar films; you usually have an idea of how things are going within the first few frames. For one, it’s a compliment to setting the tone or a visual style to enrapture. For others, … Continue reading Meatball Machine – Review
https://youtu.be/36ACqc0OHGQ Written & Directed by Nicholas Jarecki Canada, Belgium/ 2021/ 118 mins ★★★ The shrapnel of drug abuse and the institutional capitalism surrounding pharmaceuticals has a far-reaching and profoundly dangerous reach. Loosely teasing the strings of genuine incidents with a fictional “non-addictive” painkiller, Nicholas Jarecki‘s Crisis ticks the boxes of respectable casting in Gary Oldman and Evangeline Lily and comes with an … Continue reading Crisis – Review
https://youtu.be/VxJ64hB0G_I Directed by Jean-Paul Salomé France / 2020 / 104 mins ★★★ Drugs are a colossal issue in the city of Paris. Harmless but woefully inept, Chief Phillipe seems to fall at every hurdle whenever he comes close to capturing his target. And without his underpaid, undervalued translator, the police are simply playing catch-up with … Continue reading Mama Weed – French Film Festival
https://youtu.be/4ohhsKXEa-I Written & Directed by Emmanuel Mouret France / 2020 / 122 mins ★★★★ Indiscreet stories make the most appealing tales, the stories we aren’t supposed to know, the Love Affair(s) which people want to keep secret. For aspiring novelist Maxime, he figures the best instigator for a successful novel is the mother of inspiration – heartbreak. … Continue reading Love Affair(s) – French Film Festival
https://youtu.be/2KsYw96enww Written & Directed by Zoe Wittcock France/ 2020/ 93 mins ★★★★ Love, it’s what it’s all about. But it’s equally a gargantuan mystery; complex, messy, unrequited, absent, platonic, or romantic – it’s painful. It’s a cauldron of sick feelings and euphoria, an endless battleground of loving others, loving ourselves, and there are some for … Continue reading Jumbo – Glasgow Film Festival
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqGRrAjYgq4&ab_channel=queerscreen Written & Directed by Michael Seligman & Jennifer Tiexiera USA/2020/101mins ★★★★ For over sixty years, a trove of the history, culture and experiences of female impersonators and their surrounding friends and allies sat undisturbed, forgotten and biding its time - then in 2014, hundreds of letters saw the light of day once more. A … Continue reading P.S Burn This Letter Please – BFI Flare
