Shirkers is a tale of thwarted artistic expression and the strange tricks that the world can pull on us. This documentary tells the strange and unexpected story of what happened to Tan’s work and how she finally recovered it. Then their mentor stole the film and disappeared. In the early ’90s, young filmmaker Sandi Tan and her friends shot hours of footage across Singapore for their surrealist student film. You know that feeling when you go to dinner with your ex and everything’s really awkward? Karyn Kusama takes that to the umpteenth degree with this highly effective little genre flick, which deftly captures the horrors of uncomfortable social interactions – and slowly turns the dial to something more sinister. What emerges is a complex, nuanced study of motherhood that raises questions and tugs at heartstrings with subtle skill. That includes Tallulah, a homeless girl who finds herself kidnapping a baby who’s being neglected, her boyfriend’s mother (Allison Janney), who takes them in, and even the baby’s self-absorbed mother, who panics when she finds her child has gone. A veteran of Netflix’s Orange Is The New Black, it’s perhaps no surprise that she delivers a drama that nudges you to sympathise with every person on screen. TallulahĮllen Page delivers a remarkable performance in this indie film from writer/director Sian Heder. Directed by Matt Palmer, Calibre is oppressive, stressful and totally thrilling. Town vs country tropes are explored in a totally fresh way, and Jack Lowdon and Martin McCann as the out of towners are terrific. But an accident involving one of the locals causes tensions to heighten.
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This incredibly tense British drama looks like it’ll be another scrappy Brit horror movie (nothing wrong with those) but instead manages to traverse genre from folk horror to crime thriller as two old friends embark on a hunting weekend in the Scottish Highlands. Snowpiercer gives Chris Evans a chance to show off his non-Captain America acting chops, and Tilda Swinton’s role might be her weirdest ever (no, really).
Why? We’re not sure, but director Bong Joon-ho throws so many weird and beautiful things at the screen, that it’s hard to sweat the small stuff.
Global warming might be the big issue of the day, but in Snowpiercer‘s world, it’s a permanent winter that forces the last survivors of mankind onto a train that endlessly circles the frozen equator.
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