BoyBoy is an 11-year-old Maori kid with an absent father who he idolises. He lives in poverty with his Gran, his younger brother, Rocky (who has magic powers) and a group of cousins. The year is 1984, and Boy spends his time talking to his pet goat, imagining up all the amazing things his father has done and trying to impress the girl he likes by ( Read more... )

This film is flawed, but a lot of fun. Basically, if you hear the premise "silly super-villain/spy lesbian romance-action-comedy" and think "I MUST WATCH THAT" then watch it.

And yes, this is another happy lesbian film. Huzzah!

Slightly longer review at my lj.

Right after Love My Life, here's a recommendation for another happy lesbian film: Nina's Heavenly Delights. The ”Nina” in question is a young Scottish woman of Indian descent who moved away from her family years ago after a botched engagement, but now returns for her beloved father's funeral. She finds out that her father had severe gambling depths ( Read more... )

I think I'm at 2 and 3?

Anyway: these are both great movies. I reviewed them both at my lj, but in brief ( Read more... )

I chose to view Gridlock'd as my #3 because I like Vondie Curtis-Hall as an actor and was curious to see what he's like as a director. Tupac Shakur and Tim Roth play two drug-using hoodlums called Stretch and Spoon, who decide to kick the habit after their friend Cookie (Thandie Newton) almost dies of an overdose. This turns out to be harder than ( Read more... )

Anita and Me was written by Meera Syal and directed by Metin Huseyin. It's narrated by Meena, a 12 year old Sikh girl living in a white working-class mining village in the West Midlands in 1972. She loves telling stories, dreams of becoming a blonde writer, and doesn't fit in anywhere. She wishes for a tornado to arrive and make her life more ( Read more... )

One of the limits I set myself for the challenge was no Japanese cinema, as I watch a fair amount of that anyway so it seemed a bit of a cop out to count those. I did however want to break myself in gently (I've been watching a lot of fairly intense documentaries lately) so when I found a South Korean monster movie in a sale it seemed the perfect ( Read more... )

I wish my first review was on a film that was slightly less daft than this, but since I already own D.E.B.S and can't really afford lots of new films at the moment, this seemed like a good excuse to rewatch it. The director, Angela Robinson, is African-American and a lesbian ( Read more... )

Rec [uncounted]: Satree Lek (2000) (AKA Iron Ladies)


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Oh, this is gonna be so much easier for me than the book challenge :) I'm on a mad Kmovies kick, so expect quite a few recs/reviews. Other than the ones I'll be counting, I've got a backlog of recs I want to make, primarily for Kmovies but also some HK movies and some Bollywood awesomeness.

#1: Geunomeun meoshiteotda (2004) (AKA He Was Cool, AKA ( Read more... )