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From Scotland with Love 2014
I’ve seen this so many times. A composite of twentieth century archival material that is an extended love letter to Scotland. Wonderful soundtrack by King Creosote. My then toddler son and all his friends found it totally mesmerising and kept asking me to put it on. There’s something for everyone here. If you have any connection with Scotland it’s a must see.
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Mean Girls 2004
Referenced in a ‘Wet Leg’ song. Better than average high school comedy. Stupid and fun.
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Great Yarmouth: Provisional Figures 2022
Unlikely to be plugged by Great Yarmouth Tourist Board. A bleaker film is hard to imagine. A detailed fictionalised elaboration of the fragile lives of Portuguese migrants living and working in truly appalling conditions in one of England’s most deprived coastal towns. The film is primarily notable for its choice of subject matter. Over the last 10 years or more the United Kingdom has been convulsed by debates about migration, with the subject rarely being out of the national news for more than a few days, but very rarely are the lives of individual migrants explored in the media or in art.
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Mr. Pip 2012
I was interested in the themes. The power of art to ameliorate/transcend trauma is the principal one. However, trying to convey the themes of a novel often feels very contrived/forced in the medium of feature film, and so it is here. That said, there is much to like, notably the dream-like sequences during which the co-protagonist melds the world of the novel into her own childhood experience of the Pacific. Is the film clumsy, erratic, and strangely put together? Yes.…
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