Lol imagine Wookie working in a primary school. 30 screaming kids, annoying colleagues, even worse parents. I'd watch that doco.

Oof

Poor Dom

Paul the sparky wrote:

Poor Dom

A saint with spouse testimonial privilege.

Yeah I think he'd be a good choice.

Yeah he was in Home Improvement.

Ah was he the one who was groomed by the 50yo lass but cos its an older woman it wasn't creepy I member

I think the Spider-verse Sony movies are now expected to be shite, no actor’s career is going to be mortally wounded by taking a paycheque for one.

Why are the Spiderverse films expected to be shit now?

Ah right, I don't really care about those so wotevs. Tom Holland is a good SM though.

DS hooked me up with the final animated short, thanks DS!

Our Uniform (2023) - A girl who grew up in Iran’s capital city, Tehran, recounts her experiences growing up wearing the berqa at school. The animation uses fabrics as well as conventional animation methods. People are often made of presumably CGI stitching, characters walk or drive along paths made of tape measures, the girls’ development into adulthood is depicted by a finger pushing at the fabric and making it rise up into a chest-height bump. It’s pretty clever. Then it ends just as it’s getting going! I thought what was there was good but it doesn’t go into depth enough to be truly evocative and is very much a case of less-is-less. But while it lasts, it’s decent. ★★★★☆

LivDiv wrote:

Yeah I think he'd be a good choice.

He’s the white right choice clearly.

To Kill a Tiger (2022) - Another heartbreaking documentary, this one about a family from an Indian village who are fighting for justice after their 13-year-old daughter suffers a brutal gangrape at the hands of three local men. The villagers are completely unsupportive despite never really disputing that the gangrape occurred and just want the problem to go away, frustrated that the girl refuses to marry one of the perpetrators. Misogyny permeates the entire film. The village leaders are absolute pricks who refuse to help, particularly the village ward who engages in numerous rants in favour of the perpetrators throughout the film. In one of the case’s many low ebbs, the police investigator in charge of the case turns out to be a complete fuckwit, with the judge saying “You wear two stars but you can barely manage to put together one word!” Towards the end of the film, tensions rise and both the family and the film crew are subject to death threats by the villagers. I won’t spoil the ending.

This is an infuriating and important film. If 20 Days in Mariupol hadn’t come along, I think this would have had a great shot at the Oscar. What it lacks in scale compared to 20 Days it makes up for in visuals though - not being made in the middle of a war zone, there are many nicely composed shots and it manages to be pretty aesthetically pleasing for a film mostly centred on a modest house in a village and a courtroom.

Not a jolly watch but it’s a great piece of documentary work. ★★★★★

I ate an Indian while watching this and felt a bit racist because of it.

Dustin (2023) - Colman Domingo plays gay civil rights activist Bayard Rustin as he organises the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom that culminated in Martin Luther King Jr.’s ‘I have a dream’ speech in 1963. While Domingo’s performance is a bit ‘guy doing a voice’, it’s a good performance and you can see why he was nominated for Best Actor. The supporting performances are also decent and it’s a shame they didn’t pick up more awards nominations - the supporting ensemble is quite big though so perhaps singular characters didn’t get enough focus to pick up the noms.

I enjoyed this - it is a bit treacly at times but I found it entertaining and informative. It seems like some critics were a bit snobby about this one but I thought it was more deserving of a Best Film nomination than bloody Maestro! ★★★★☆

Please contain your excitement but the 4K Steelbook of Madame Web is available for pre-order now for a mere £34.99!! Bargain.