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19 January 2021
Our Picks + Women In Body Horror
by Abla Kandalaft, Coco Green, Georgina Allan
This week, we are joined by Georgina Allan, film editor for the Radical Art Review to talk about women in horror, specifically focusing on Julia Ducournau’s Raw and their representations of women as complex protagonists and instigators of violence (as opposed to helpless victims or mindless monsters).
We mention Jordan Peele’s Us, Marina De Van’s In My Skin and Don’t Look Back and others.
Picks of the week include Aaron Moorhead and Justin Benson’s mind warping, beautiful Synchronic and (...) Continue Reading »
4 January 2021
Our picks + Antebellum & Century Of The Self
by Abla Kandalaft, Coco Green, Tom Barlow
We are joined once again by Tom Barlow, chair of The Media Fund and host of the show News Club UK, to discuss the 2002 documentary series The Century of the Self..
Antebellum is a 2020 American thriller film written and directed by Gerard Bush and Christopher Renz in their feature directorial debuts. While beautifully shot, Antebellum fails in its attempt explore the sociopathy of the white slaveholding class—mainly because the story isn’t set in a slave society. The film can’t come to (...) Continue Reading »
Something is troubling David Fincher. Despite his multiple Oscar nominations, the consistent box office returns that keep the studios purring, and the cult fandom generated by his dark and twisty thrillers, something is gnawing at him. He hasn’t done his “Hollywood” picture. And really, how do you expect to be taken seriously as a white male American auteur without a handsome and lightly satirical peek behind the soundstage. Look around you. Scorsese has made Aviator, Tarantino has Once Upon a (...) Continue Reading »
14 December 2020
Our Picks + The Imposter & Little White Lie
by Abla Kandalaft, Coco Green
Before we introduce our picks, we quickly shoehorn in one last point about last week’s Three Identical Strangers...This week’s top picks include Aaron Sorkin’s historical legal drama The Trial Of The Chicago Seven, and Najwa Najjar’s Palestinian road trip festival hit Between Heaven And Earth.
We discuss the utterly bonkers documentary The Imposter, in which an Algerian-French young man in Spain claims to be a 16-year-old Texan, who’d been missing for 3 years, and Little White Lie, the story of (...) Continue Reading »
10 December 2020
Chat with actress Yiga Gaolou - Damage Control, Channel 4 Random Acts
by Alma, Mydylarama team
Yiga was recently seen in short film Damage Control, part of Channel 4’s Random Acts: Black History Month.
We caught up with her over the phone to chat about her career, networking opportunities and finding work through Instagram during lockdown.
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30 November 2020
Our Picks + The Last Blackman in San Francisco & One Man And His Shoes
by Abla Kandalaft, Coco Green
New fortnight, new episode.
Abla’s picks of the week are the brilliant, creepy horror debut Caveat by filmmaker Damian McCarthy and Palestinian film Western Arabs, a chaotic, powerful and very personal look at the impact of displacement, by Omar Shargawi, as both films are reviewed on here!
Our festival to watch out for is Documenta.
We focus on two feature films:
Joe Talbot’sThe Last Black Man in San Francisco (2020), an engaging documentary that came out in October and is now (...) Continue Reading »
23 November 2020
Caveat - A strong horror debut by Damian McCarthy
by Abla Kandalaft
A lone drifter suffering from partial memory loss accepts a job to look after a psychologically troubled woman in an abandoned house on an isolated island.
I took a punt on this offering whilst browsing this year’s [Leeds International Film Festival->https://www.leedsfilm.com/whats-on/caveat output. As usual, the programming was first-class but I usually make it my priority to hone in on entries that come under "horror". It’s no mean feat for a film to surprise and scare me given how blasé (...) Continue Reading »
16 November 2020
Western Arabs by Omar Shargawi
by Abla Kandalaft
Filmed over the course of 12 years, Western Arabs is a chaotic and fascinating look at the intergenerational trauma and impact of displacement.
Omar’s father, Munir, was amongst the Palestinians that were forced to flee their homes after 1948. Still a young child, he fled with his family to Jordan before eventually immigrating to Denmark. It was there that he met his Danish wife, with whom he later had three sons, Omar and his two brothers, who appear to be at loggerheads most of the time. (...) Continue Reading »
14 November 2020
Our Picks + Our House & The Social Dilemma
by Abla Kandalaft, Coco Green
This week, Abla picks Seduced: Inside the NXIVM Cult, a sort of parallel documentary to the previously discussed The Vow, also about Keith Raniere and NXIVM but more explosive and revelatory, and Egyptian horror series Paranormal.
Coco Green talks about:
The China Hustle (2017)
Like the 2016 documentary Betting on Zero, about short sellers and their suspicions of fraud in the multilevel marketing company Herbalife, The China Hustle has a similar focus, but with Chinese companies (...) Continue Reading »
26 October 2020
Our Picks + Keenie Meenie: Britain’s Private Army
by Abla Kandalaft, Coco Green, Phil Miller
Our guest this week is Phil Miller, investigative journalist and staff reporter at Declassified UK. We discuss the origins of British mercenaries in recent proxy wars and the extent of government culpability in his documentary (and the book it’s based on) Keenie Meenie: Britain’s Private Army (2020) - available online! We also touch on the issues around British intervention abroad, involvement in the international arms trade and the effects on migration.
We’ve not been bawled over by any (...) Continue Reading »
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