Parallel Mothers (2022) - Movie Review

Pedro Almodóvar has a new film out this year. And that name had damn-well better sound familiar to my readers, given how much I gushed over his last film Pain And Glory, my favourite film of 2019 and one of the best films about filmmaking of the entire 2010s. But with that same enthusiasm I showed not that long ago, there’s a good chance that I’m just setting up whatever he has next to fail. I mean, don’t get me wrong, this film is still very, very good, but take my minor gripes to follow with a grain of salt, as I may have already spoilt myself when it comes to this guy at his best.

The Platform (2020) - Movie Review

Much like with the sudden public resurgence Steven Soderbergh’s Contagion has experienced, this feature’s moment of trending recently makes a depressing level of sense.  An ostensibly straight-forward Spanish feature that uses architecture to portray class divide; what separates those higher from those lower, using food as the primary political symbol, similar to The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover. This has been a world of dietary inequality long before everything went into lockdown, but now that we’re in the midst of fearful hoarding of food to last out the potential months this shit could carry on for, it reaches a particular level of poignancy in the current climate.