Hear Me Out is a short documentary about the Ghanaian community journalist Helen Udanbila who manage a local radio programme which seeks to give a voice to the young girls and women in Saboba, Northen Ghana, Africa. It’s a hopeful and touching story about making a change for your local society in spite of structural inequality between gender. Through the development project called Youth Speak Up, the Danish NGO Ghana Friendship has created a platform where young Ghanaians, like Helen, get an opportunity to shed light on cultural taboos as teenage pregnancy, the education of women and abortion.
Honey Don't! is a chaotic queer noir that's part detective story, part midnight movie madness. Margaret Qualley is fantastic as the wise-cracking private eye Honey, with Aubrey Plaza and Chris Evans adding their own dry humor to the mix. The mystery itself is pretty loose, but the film makes up for it with crackling sexual tension, weird side characters, and razor-sharp dialogue. It's messy and uneven, but in the best possible way.
"Thunder Road" presents the grief that comes from a family member taking their own life.
James Cameron’s The Terminator (1984) marks the beginning of a wonderful two-part arc, brimming with style and substance. The film follows Sarah Connor, a waitress living in Los Angeles. One night, a cybernetic organism (Arnold Schwarzenegger) is sent back in time to kill Sarah. A human resistance fighter (Michael Biehn) is also sent back in time, with the intent of saving Sarah from this deadly foe.
Kat Wahlen’s The Whiteboard tells, or rather shows, a delightful love story between two young women who meet in detention.
“Ad Astra” is a film that possesses similar beats to sci-fi classics, falling into the realm of cinematic hypnotism, and pulling us in with its mysteriously intoxicating identity.
'Bodies Bodies Bodies', the latest from indie powerhouse studio A24, is a great time. Full of dark comedy laughs, great performances, and genuine scares, it's a perfect addition to modern slasher classics.
