The public high school named Manuel Mujica Lainez is located in Villa Lugano, on the margins of the City of Buenos Aires, where the highest poverty rates are found. During a whole year, a school workshop was filmed on a day to day basis, where 17 year old teenagers worked on the collective mapping of their neighbourhood. With a thorough filming device upon this school assignment, classroom life takes shape and, at the same time, the external social issues lived by the students arise.
We, the Jane Austen aficionados, are suckers for everything and anything under the sun that’s remotely related to her and her world. That’s because we are so drawn to her unique style of fiction, romance, and social commentary, we take any allusion to her influence as a hint to what to expect when we start watching a movie or reading a book.
Pressure is an unambiguously great movie, lead by convincing performances, a well-crafted script, good direction, and at least some social awareness.
"WHAT ARE YOU WILLING TO SACRIFICE?!!!!" "EVERYTHING!!!!!" This is but one of a multitude of highly emphatic questions, and subsequent answers, being asked in the newest feature film from one of the current masters of horror, Jordan Peele ("Get Out", "Us" and "Nope"). I must give Peele credit in that he continues to push the boundaries of specific genres and their associated tropes in order to provide what ends up amounting to subtly then jarringly intense, yet still character and story-driven, cinema that speaks more to indie stylings than mainstream.
'Run This Town' takes an unflinching look at the Rob Ford scandal that shook Toronto to its core while using fictional millennials to drive a concise story .
The film's storylines read as allegories for the queer experience and that's a source of solace for LGBTQIA+ fans!
A throwback to the last months of the 20th century in this comedy film.
