Scary True Stories: Night 18 

Jordan Peele’s film is an intelligent and unflinching piece of work, firmly focused on the African American experience.

I came across Urchin by chance and decided to watch it because of the title. It made me think of the spiky animal that lives at the bottom of the ocean, and the old Dickensian novels, where an urchin was an orphaned, homeless child in shaggy and dirty clothes.

America is the crux of the storyline: she is the only person in existence with the power to jump between universes. As central as America is to the Multiverse of Madness story, she somehow didn’t get that much to do.

Acutely funny and always well-intentioned, Last Week Tonight has a lot of heart for a satirical-news program.

Fire Island is the more inclusive film of the two with the bi-phobic definition of pansexuality in The Thing About Harry and its obvious lack of colour on screen

Digger is a smart film, one that takes what could have been a “seen it before” message and gives it new life.