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A Vigilante 4 stars☆☆☆☆☆

4th June 2019 by Sarah Cartland 11 Comments

I like this movie’s title – a vigilante, not the vigilante, which would have positioned this as just another exploitation piece. Sadie, herself a survivor of horrific abuse at the hands of her husband, is not out for acclaim but wants to sink into the grey shadows. It also suggests there are more out there,… A Vigilante Read More

Filed Under: Film Reviews Tagged With: abuse, domestic violence, shelter, vigilante

V (Short Film) Short Film 3.5 stars☆☆☆☆☆

14th February 2019 by Sarah Cartland Leave a Comment

Not everything you find on Google about vampires is true, says 16 year old Minnie ruefully: “I didn’t get fangs, I certainly didn’t develop some unearthly beauty!” she says as she sits in the kitchen of her flat drinking a bottle of blood she keeps in the fridge. Some things about vampires are true though,… V (Short Film) Read More

Filed Under: Film Reviews, Support Indie Film Tagged With: abuse, blood, teenagers, vampire

Una 3.5 stars☆☆☆☆☆

14th January 2018 by Sarah Cartland Leave a Comment

“What do you want?” asks Pete at the warehouse where he works, when a face from the past turns up. “To see you” replies Una (Rooney Mara), the now twentysomething woman he groomed and sexually abused when she was a child. Pete (Ben Mendelsohn) was Ray then, when they ran away together (technically abduction would… Una Read More

Filed Under: Film Reviews Tagged With: abuse, childhood, play adaptation

Did You Wonder Who Fired The Gun? (New York Film Festival 2017) 3 stars☆☆☆☆☆

5th October 2017 by Sarah Cartland Leave a Comment

A documentary murder mystery about the filmmaker’s family, set in lower Alabama. It’s an odd title as who fired the gun that killed Bill Spann, a 46 year old African American man in Dothan, Alabama that night in 1946, is not in doubt. It was director Travis Wilkerson’s great grandfather, SE Branch, in his convenience… Did You Wonder Who Fired The Gun? (New York Film Festival 2017) Read More

Filed Under: Film Reviews, New York Film Festival Tagged With: abuse, alabama, Bill Spann, black erasure, civil rights, family history, murder, racism, S E Branch

IT 4 stars☆☆☆☆☆

9th September 2017 by Sarah Cartland Leave a Comment

*** Read my review of It Chapter Two *** It’s October 1988 and Bill is in his bedroom making a sailboat for his little brother, as music tinkles in the background. Though it turns out that this isn’t the soundtrack,  but their mother playing her piano. What isn’t really real turns out to be there, in the… IT Read More

Filed Under: Film Reviews Tagged With: abuse, bullying, clowns, coming or age, demons, derry, it, it movie, pennywise, puberty, stephen king

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