Professor Rachel’s attending a wedding in the home town
Of her partner Nick (not expecting the scornful frown
Of his mother and assorted fam).
Abundant laughs and OTT glam
In this delightful film. Great leads’ chemistry, plus many a clown.
Notorious RBG: Associate Justice of the Court (Supreme);
Tireless octogenarian with a round-the-clock work regime.
Excellent portrait of a genius legal mind
Who’s fought for womankind.
After hard-won battles, millions hold her in high esteem.
They’re less than stellar students, these four college guys
Who have an audacious plan (yes, it’s clearly unwise).
Riveting incarnations
Of crazy situations
Where twelve mil of rare books are the prize.
Teacher Lisa’s tasked with guiding a class of young minds.
She becomes intensely obsessed when she finds
A wordsmith genius (little fella).
Sevak & Gyllenhaal’s work: stellar.
It’s complexly unsettling as boundary adherence unwinds.
So up to six months before the wedding ceremony’s kiss,
These young Chinese couples wouldn’t dare miss
Paying huge loot
For an elaborate photo shoot.
A interesting look at this required step towards (pre-) wedded bliss.
Yes, the ridiculous premise requires disbelief suspension,
But there’s laughs re: Duncan giving over-the-top attention
To Tucker’s short, faded career.
Hawke’s clearly having fun here.
A slight, but enjoyable tale (with themes of reinvention).
The shocking system, where talented female directors find
Themselves systematically shut out or undermined
Is examined in this doco (essential).
Discriminatory obstacles mean potential
Is often unrealised (and the fight for recognition's a cruel grind).
A deceptively simple setup: a day’s road trip for a son and dad
(Delivering invitations). There’s piles of obligatory food to be had
(Such generous hospitality conventions).
Familial love and long-held tensions
Are beautifully drawn out. Exquisite balance of the joyous and the sad.
Christian’s going straight: A new supermarket job where he greets
(In the break room) Marion (from the magical aisle of the sweets).
New friends are connected.
Forklift driving’s perfected.
There’s gentle melancholy, black humour, and dodgy processed meats.
This film’s particularly clever and novel conceit
Never feels like a gimmicky cheat.
Storytelling skills: immense.
Constantly riveting and intense.
Genuinely engaging. The tensions’s edge-of-your-seat.
Cameron’s SSA has been labelled a perversion,
So she’s sent to soul-destroying gay conversion
Therapy (with poison teachings of hate).
The central performances are great.
Often restrained (I'd like to have seen more resistance/aversion).
A gentle love, and the bigotry hits them like a mallet.
Violence, gossip and politics (upcoming ballot).
Though at times the story’s slight,
The film excels visually (use of light,
Plus a gorgeously joyous colour palette).
Clients: too cowardly to do the dropping,
So Mel & Jen plan to come stopping
By to provide a unique service
(Client fraternising makes Jen nervous).
Hilarious scenes as jilted lovers endure a copping.
Like a latter-day L.B. Jeffries, Randal’s looking
(From apartment prison) at what the neighbours have cooking.
Dumisa delivers such dread
And then more tension ahead.
Despite a few short drags, there’s much here that’s hooking.
Moving stories of seriously ill patients and their agonising waits
For much-needed donor organs. But tragically, the rates
Of donation are dangerously low.
Hopefully this excellent doco will go
A long way towards more awareness, leading to healthy fates.
Three brothers meet, and it feels like they’re tripping.
Into their backstory director Wardle begins chipping.
They’re an extraordinary triplet gang.
On each development we hang,
As we follow a mind-blowing journey that’s utterly gripping.
Ms Murad’s life changes (devastatingly, and not by choice).
Giving her harrowing testimony, into the limelight she’s hoist.
So unimaginably brave
After sufferings so grave.
A superbly directed film, further elevating a vital voice.
Film directors of note are being beheaded.
Now, you’d think such a fate would be dreaded.
But Hasan, with ego extended
Is super-offended.
Dark humour and pathos nicely wedded.
So the Ocean family traits are ingrained and lasting.
An elaborate scheme. Complex skills. In they go blasting.
It’s an enormously fun ride
Watching these cool women slide
Into a great adventure. Excellent (lead and ensemble) casting.
Ronit’s back to London to mourn. There’s new info to digest:
Community scorn; an unexpected marriage; a love repressed.
Then up it all bubbles,
And here come more troubles.
Gripping - as each of the trio each face a profound test.
