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Ali & Ava (2021)
Lovely, authentic romance that swerves all possible complexity
It wears its emotional beats well and features a relationship that's easy to root for, but a growing sense emerges that none of the conversations you'd want/expect to be had make it to screen. A blindsidingly abrupt ending cuts the potential drama short and it doesn't do its complicated family dynamics and themes of parenthood & racism justice. So subtle that it just about qualifies as lipservixe. Mental illness, loneliness, domestic abuse and intersectionality rear their head briefly, but this isn't a story willing or fit to make them...relevant. Beautiful, likeable performances (even able to make a Landlord sympathetic!) but considering how genuine the core of the film is, I wish there were more closure or resolution to the social stigmas & gross family members that hassled them all movie.
My Little Eye (2002)
Big Brother, but a Smut Film. An Essential watch for home-viewing.
The four hour proposed cut of this film sounds miserable. Very little even happens to fill the current short runtime. A good premise with an unlikeable cast, sudden 180s in character and a lacklustre ending make this a strong 5.
BUT. With no spoilers given, put this into your DVD player. Input a password and slowly you slowly realise you are seeing but a small piece of this film's puzzle. The 'interactive mode' is one of the brilliant experimental products of the early DVD era and should be the only way of seeing this movie, bumping this up to a 7.5.