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I Care A Lot 4 stars☆☆☆☆☆

21st February 2021 by Sarah Cartland Leave a Comment

A woman uses the legal system to strip elderly people of their assets – until she becomes guardian to one woman with some scary associates. I Care A Lot shows how capitalism is now so venal it’s actually easier to stay within the law than break it when screwing people over to make your fortune,… I Care A Lot Read More

Filed Under: Featured 1, Film Reviews Tagged With: ageing, con, conwoman, gangster, guardian

Relic: it’s coming from inside the house!

9th October 2020 by Sarah Cartland Leave a Comment

Very spoilery article, once you’ve recovered from watching the film… (my review is here) In many ways Relic is a classic horror film, part haunted house and part demonic possession. But it’s also about family and memories, and how dementia and ageing can snatch away that which feels most valuable to us, that we most… Relic: it’s coming from inside the house! Read More

Filed Under: Film Articles, Film Festivals, London Film Festival Tagged With: ageing, bella heathcote, dementia, emily mortimer, family, horror, natalie erika james, relic, robyn nevin

Relic (London Film Festival) 4 stars☆☆☆☆☆

8th October 2020 by Sarah Cartland Leave a Comment

A daughter, mother and grandmother are haunted by a manifestation of dementia that consumes their family’s home. There are post-it notes stuck all around Edna’s elegant and airy house, little reminders of basic living: turn off taps says one. As they get more frightening, warnings in an increasingly spidery hand, there’s one that says Don’t… Relic (London Film Festival) Read More

Filed Under: Featured 1, Film Festivals, Film Reviews, London Film Festival Tagged With: ageing, dementia, families, women

Meyerowitz Stories (New & Selected) (New York Film Festival 2017) 4.5 stars☆☆☆☆☆

4th October 2017 by Sarah Cartland Leave a Comment

“Maybe he’s undiscovered for a reason,” says Matt (Ben Stiller) about his sculptor father Harold. But for his half-brother Danny taking away the myth of their dad’s undiscovered greatness will destroy their excuses for Harold’s terrible parenting and four marriages: “if he isn’t a great artist that means he was just a prick.” This is a… Meyerowitz Stories (New & Selected) (New York Film Festival 2017) Read More

Filed Under: Film Reviews, New York Film Festival Tagged With: ageing, art, families, new york, nyff, Sibling rivalry

Logan 4.5 stars☆☆☆☆☆

2nd March 2017 by Sarah Cartland Leave a Comment

Every Christmas day he'd show the kids what dad used to do before carving the turkey

Logan isn’t really about superheroes. It’s about ageing and its accompanying vulnerabilities and failing bodies; the fear of death masked as obstinacy and intransigence; about what makes a family, and how families pull you back in whether you want them to or not; about the loss of the old and sacrifice for the young, and also of… Logan Read More

Filed Under: Film Reviews Tagged With: ageing, caliban, charles xavier, claws, dna, eden, family, laura kinney, logan, mutant children, mutants, old man logan, outsiders, reavers, superheroes, transigen, wolverine, x men, x-23, x-24, zander rice

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