March
Hello you. March’s theme is ‘21 films from 2016 that you might not have seen yet‘. As you can probably guess, this isn’t an attempt at a ‘best of the… Read more March →
Midnight Special
I know the ending divided audiences, and ruined the whole film for some people, but Midnight Special lives in a purely cinematic space, like some sort of Hitchcock-ian science fiction… Read more Midnight Special →
Long Way North
Somewhere in space, aliens are preparing to destroy our planet with weapons so powerful that we couldn’t comprehend them. Their reasoning? That any species that gives Norm of the North… Read more Long Way North →
Keanu
Two men try to get a cat back from a gangster. How the hell was this not bigger than it was? What other encouragement do people need to watch a… Read more Keanu →
Hunt for the Wilderpeople
Of everything on my list, this is the film I’m most confident you’ve already seen. Of course you’ve seen it. You don’t choose the skux life. The skux life chooses… Read more Hunt for the Wilderpeople →
The Edge of Seventeen
When Hailee Steinfeld starts winning all the Oscars, The Edge of Seventeen will be the film that people pretend they first noticed her in. Why not get ahead of the… Read more The Edge of Seventeen →
Divines
Winner of the Caméra d’Or at Cannes, Divines didn’t get much of a cinema release outside of France because it was picked up by Netflix. A film that would have… Read more Divines →
Dangal
It would be nonsense to even pretend that Dangal is a lost classic. It is the highest grossing Indian film of all time and worldwide it was the 30th biggest… Read more Dangal →
Chi-Raq
Spike Lee pulls no punches and gives absolutely no fucks with this reinterpretation of Aristophanes’ Lysistrata. Chi-Raq may well be the angriest film I have ever seen. It is also… Read more Chi-Raq →
