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Reading & watching- Booksmart (Olivia Wilde 2019) 14 July 2019Mark Kermode (click on the image) really liked it, but I thought it was one of those gross-out teen comedies but with women in the lead roles. Are high schools in the USA really like this?
- Bonus Family, Season 3 (Clara Herngren & Felix Herngren 2019) 12 July 2019A pleasant surprise to discover the third season of this exists and is available. There has been a death and a new pregnancy. The birth happens in the first episode and gets no screentime at all: the important thing is that there's nw a new baby with a different combination of parents, and the whole web of complex relationships just got a bot more compl […]
- Attack the Block (Joe Cornish 2011) 12 July 2019An alien invasion that focuses on a group of teenage bad boys in London somewhere. I found it really refreshing.
- Mary and Max (Adam Elliot 2009) 11 July 2019I remember when this won an Oscar a decade ago, and have finally caught up with it. A lonely eight-year-old girl in Melbourne writes a letter to a name picked from the phone book, whaich turns out to belong to a lonely 40-something man with Aspergers in New York City. It's funny in a sad sort of way, and gets sadder. I loved it.
- This Beautiful Fantastic (Simon Aboud 2016) 11 July 2019We found his trawling through movies available online. It's really a children's film, but doesn't fully declare itself until it's too late to back out. If you go in expecting a children's film, its simplifications and glossings-over won't be annoying. A moderately enjoyable romantic comedy involving many deeply flawed people and […]
- Booksmart (Olivia Wilde 2019) 14 July 2019
