“Blue Jean” is an Eighties-set drama that’s adorned with familiar references (at one point, New Order’s “Blue Monday” plays) – but isn’t mired in outlandish grime and misery. Most crucially, it’s a story about past injustice that doesn’t gorge itself on self-satisfaction. Nor the comforting myth that Britain is on a steady path of betterment….
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Tell it to the bees movie 2018
Tell it to the bees is a movie inspired by the same name book by British author Fiona Shaw. Tell it to the Bees draws you into its world, a rich world of secrets and passion, a child’s world, and an adult’s world, Fiona Shaw creates brilliant characters who stay with you long after the book…
Women Who Kill – the queer movie
“Do people always fall in love with things they can’t have?’ ‘Always,’ Carol said, smiling, too.” ― Patricia Highsmith, The Price of Salt. ============================================== Women Who Kill sounds like a bad documentary on Netflix…and in some ways it’s meant to sound that way. But I’ll get to that. To start with, the film is genre…