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I do think there’s a good film in there, and a lot of talent, but this was too muddled for me. The werewolf plot, evil priest plot, witchcraft plot and impotent baron plot were basically all separate stories. In trying to do them all, none of them went very far.
An impressive, hand-crafted animated retelling of the Little Mermaid, transplanted to a version of Shanghai in which big business and the King of the Sea are quarrelling. Only the union of the Fish Princess and uh… some junior guy at a shipping company can bring peace and unity.
It’s fine. I did like a lot of the animation, and there were some lovely scenes (including a surprisingly good car chase!), but I grew pretty tired of the lead guy’s entitled male whinging. I know, I know, the whole story was a journey of developing his character and learning to be a better person but… if you don’t like the breakfast your fish princess wife makes for you, maybe you should make your own breakfast, you chump. Instead of waiting for her single female friend to step in and teach her how to cook like a good wife. Urgh.
A 100 year old cinema wonder, exploring the mysteries of space through cutting edge film effects. We cover the history of human understanding of space, the individual planets, the seasons, moons, and more. It’s truly stunning stuff, although the highlights are all the bits with people in (jumping in low-gravity on Mars! walking on the walls of the spaceship!).
Matthew Bourne’s live moog soundtrack was absolutely wonderful as well.
Well this was utterly ludicrous.
In Porto Alegre, Brazil, Mathias is an aspiring actor, competing for roles with his flatmate, Fabio. Mathias hooks up via an app with a new man, and they quickly discover how much they enjoy the thrill of having sex in public. Unfortunately, this isn’t very compatible with Mathias’ fledgling TV career, and still less compatible with Rafael’s attempt to run for mayor.
There’s some serious points in here about social acceptance of gay men (someone says something like “gay men are accepted now. As long as they’re private”) but its rather buried beneath the lurid, fast-paced plot - with sex in car parks, covert filming, blackmail and violence.
It’s quite good fun.
Very much my sort of horror. This is a solid entry in the “it’s rough being a teenage girl” genre, with a gentle touch of supernatural thrown in. For me, the pacing was spot on. It felt slow but with a constant sense of threat, that only very rarely bubbled to the surface. Natalia and friends are all falling for Diego, but he’s been swept away by worldly, older Silvia. Natalia’s anger and hurt surface in sudden moments of violence and power (or are they just accidents and power-cuts?). It’s menacing and threatening without ever being gratuitously nasty. I loved it.
Though Diego seemed like a berk.