Chris says: “Marta (Natasa Stork), a Hungarian neurosurgeon practicing in America returns to her home country to meet up with Janos (Viktor Bodo), another doctor in her field. Claiming she met him at a conference and it was love at
Chris says: “This deadpan look at The Villages, a massive retirement community in central Florida that’s also a town in itself (home to more than *130,000* residents) is one of the more entertaining documentaries I’ve watched in some time. Whereas filmmaker
Part of the Small Axe Amazon Prime series Michael says: “Steve McQueen’s mid-point in his collection of films about the West African experience in London is the high point in terms of films in my eyes. RED, WHITE AND BLUE
Michael says: “Polish director Szumowska has been a regular on the festival circuit with such films as ELLES (starring Juliette Binoche) and THE OTHER LAMB, released in the U.S. this year, but hasn’t quite broken through to the art-house circuit.
Toni says: “This is a haunting, animated, surreal take on a dog’s life, with the backdrop of sometimes loving, sometimes abusive homes over the years. This would be great for Buried Treasure, as it was a bit more obscure but
Part of the SMALL AXE Amazon Prime series. Diane says: “I’ve been wanting to see Steve McQueen’s set of SMALL AXE movies (on Amazon Prime), so natch I picked a short one—only an hour long. LOVERS ROCK is the title,
Michael says: “You know you’re watching something perversely special when it features an ejaculating cactus. Paying liberal homage to the strangers films of Guy Maddin, Matthew Rankin’s first feature film is a wildly inventive, biopic (in the loosest sense of
Michael says: “There’s a bit of a thread between COMING HOME AGAIN and MONSOON. Both deal with Asian families, and particularly sons dealing with the death of parents, and difficulty of accessing emotions. But where COMING HOME AGAIN was more
Chris says: “Verité doc clandestinely filmed inside an ICU unit in Wuhan, China during the 76-day lockdown earlier this year. Expectedly difficult to watch (especially the heightened panic of the early days) but also genuinely life-affirming. This is an invaluable
Chris says: “A group of Middle-Eastern and African men are stranded in a refugee camp off the coast of Scotland. Our protagonist, Omar, is a musician from Syria and carries his oud wherever he goes. The refugees spend their time
