Come join us at the Curzon bar to meet fellow film fans and discuss all things film over a drink.
We'll give our thoughts on some of the latest releases, and also discuss our opinions on what films have been selected this month. Some are new and at the cinema, some are can be enjoyed from home. Whether you're an avid cinemagoer, home streamer...Or a bit of both! Please come and share your views on the following films:
Remember!
*Please only RSVP if you intend on turning up
*Don't worry, you are not expected to see every film, this is just a selection for you to choose from. Watch what want or what you can!
*Check the first comment below for details on where to see these films!
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In Cinemas...
Tony
A24 film biopic of celebrated chef and travel writer Anthony Bourdain, focusing on a seminal moment in his life. It is summer of 1975 and ‘Tony’ has failed to secure a writing scholarship and so must take a summer job in a seafood restaurant. There a hard but passionate chef teaches him discipline but also the art of food. Dominic Sessa (of ‘The Holdovers’ fame) stars alongside Antonio Banderas and Emilia Jones.
Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma
Surrealist psycho sexual slasher. A young filmmaker is given the task of doing the reboot to 80s horror franchise ‘Camp Miasma’, however she doesn’t want to make a generic slasher. She goes to visit the ‘final girl’ from the legendary first film, now a middle aged woman she is strangely living at the camp where the movies were filmed, as she feels the series murderous villain ‘little death’ will return…But surely it’s a fictional character right!? Gillian Anderson stars
On Streaming...
The Blue Trail
A Brazilian uplifting age-positive dystopia (???) and winner of The Silver Bear award at The Berlin Film Festival. Brazil in the not too distant future, with an aging population becoming an economic burden, the old are moved into state controlled communities by law. The age for relocation was 80, but the government has lowered it to 75. This has caught 77 year old Tereza off guard, she thought she had a few more years of freedom. Defying the rules she decides to make a break for it, journeying into the Amazon. Her goal being to find a way to do the one thing she's always wanted to do...Fly on a plane.
The Good Boy
(aka Heel). British Black comedy thriller starring Stephen Graham and Andrea Riseborough. A hard partying 19 year old delinquent, Tommy is swept off the street. He awakens in a house where a couple have him chained up, not only as their prisoner but pet? The man of the house Chris seems obsessed with control, not only over Tommy, but over his wife and child too...What exactly is his grand plan?
Fargo (1996)
Chosen by: Klaudia
Phrase: Snow and Ice
One of the most celebrated films of the 90s from the Coen Brothers. Minnesota, and a car dealer hatches a plan with two criminals. His wife has a rich father, and if they kidnap her and ask for a ransom they can split the proceeds. But things don’t really go to plan, leading to a comedy of criminal errors in the sleepy American Midwest. On the case is Marge, a heavily pregnant state trooper, who must navigate the snowy conditions to unpick the trail of carnage which is being left behind. France’s McDormand stars.
Tammy And The T-Rex (1994)
Chosen by: Fred
Phrase: So Bad It's Good!
Madcap 90s cult favourite starring Denise Richards and Paul Walker. Tammy has a new boyfriend, Michael who she desperately loves, much to the annoyance of her violent ex. Meanwhile crazed Dr. Wachenstein has created a robotic full-sized T-Rex, but it has to be remote controlled, he could 'bring it to life' if only he could transplant a human brain in it. When Michael is brutally attacked and left in a coma it becomes the mad Doctor's chance to get a fresh sample!
