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The Souvenir 4 stars☆☆☆☆☆

11th January 2020 by Sarah Cartland Leave a Comment

An 80s-set coming of age story, The Souvenir charts a woman trapped in an emotionally abusive relationship, increasingly desperate to find her voice as disparate forces buffet her, for reasons malicious and benign. Writer-director Joanna Hogg’s film is a classic example of how a toxic relationship can mark us for ever; though as its young,… The Souvenir Read More

Filed Under: Film Reviews Tagged With: 1980s, film school, toxic relationships

Blinded By The Light 3 stars☆☆☆☆☆

12th August 2019 by Sarah Cartland Leave a Comment

By 1987 Mrs Thatcher had been in power for eight years and believe me it felt like a whole lot longer than that at the time. As if things could get any worse, Curiosity Killed the Cat, Tiffany and Debbie Gibson were mounting assaults on the UK charts. I’d tried to block all of those… Blinded By The Light Read More

Filed Under: Featured 2, Film Reviews Tagged With: 1980s, British Asian, bruce springsteen, fascism, luton, Pakistani, racism, thatcherism, the boss

Blinded By The Light trailer: Bruce lights the way in 80s Luton

18th May 2019 by Sarah Cartland 2 Comments

The 80s were a crazy decade – awesome music, terrible politics. (Possibly the latter helped cause the former.) In Blinded By The Light it’s 1987 and Mrs Thatcher is in power, while record players and Walkmans hum with Wham! and Bananarama (when it comes to the 80s, if you never tried to wind a cassette… Blinded By The Light trailer: Bruce lights the way in 80s Luton Read More

Filed Under: Trailers Tagged With: 1980s, bruce springsteen, music, racism, thatcher

Breaking The Limits 3.5 stars☆☆☆☆☆

18th March 2019 by Sarah Cartland Leave a Comment

Breaking The Limits initially has an air almost of light-heartedness, as young Jerzy (Jakub Gierszal) and his girlfriend Grasnya (Anna Próchniak) inject themselves in a squat with their friends. Looking healthy and feeling they’re in control, they joke about how statistically most Western philosophy students have tried drugs. Fast-forward two years and the couple’s heroin addictions… Breaking The Limits Read More

Filed Under: Film Reviews Tagged With: 1980s, communism, drug addiction, drugs, extreme sports, iron man, poland, triathlon

Heathers 4.5 stars☆☆☆☆☆

2nd August 2018 by Sarah Cartland 1 Comment

The 80s was a blunt decade, designed to disrupt – oversized, brash and brightly-coloured, where the brave and bullish could succeed. In a time defined by red lipstick, shrinking violets need not apply. Everything is over-oversized in Heathers. It’s even bigger, brasher, brighter and more vicious than the decade it satirises. Unsurprisingly in this live-action,… Heathers Read More

Filed Under: Film Reviews Tagged With: 1980s, bullying, death, high school, murder, satire, suicide

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