She Spoiled It

All Sorts: Review

20/2/2022

Many years ago I worked at my city’s police headquarters where part of my job was filing mugshots. There were hundreds of thousands of them in endless tiny drawers in the photographics room. The chemical smell was overwhelming and it took an age to find the exact spot amongst the thousands of Smiths to place the latest Smith offender.

I would not have been a good contender in the secret world of underground competitive filing in “All Sorts”. This surreal workplace comedy from writer/director J. Rick Castañeda is an utter delight.

Girl Like You: Review

13/2/2022

This honest documentary is an open discussion about gender transition, and the impact it has on a person’s wider relationships. Filmed over 6 years, we’re given an insight into the evolving nature of this difficult journey.

Sami, Joe and I: Review

6/2/2022

This thoughtful and poetic coming of age drama looks at the painful crossroads of childhood and adulthood for three teenage girls.

The Neutral Ground: Review

30/1/2022

The neutral ground refers to the grassy space between streets, designed to be a space where everyone can meet together. This documentary shows one man’s attempts to explore the ‘neutral ground’ of monuments to white supremacy.

Wild Indian: Review

23/1/2022

This tense psychological thriller deals with the impact of guilt and remorse many years after a tragic event. A stone-cold central performance by Michael Greyeyes and a mythical quality lifts this film to another level.

7 Days: Review

16/1/2022

This low budget covid-based dramedy takes a look at the nature of love and unlikely relationships. But with surface level characters and a thin storyline its efforts are hampered.

Deadly Cuts: Review

9/1/2022

A black comedy about a bunch of vigilante Irish hairdressers? Yes please!

In a working-class Dublin hair salon, four women struggle to keep their business afloat against the headwinds of local deprivation and small-time mobsters milking them for protection money. But they have big aspirations. The “Ahh Hair” hairdressing competition is coming up and a win would mean saving the salon as well as defeating old enemies.

Violet: Review

26/12/2021

Surely most people know what it’s like to have that inner voice of self doubt constantly pecking at you. The thing that says the person you’re talking to thinks you’re annoying, or that you’ll never get that promotion.

Justine Bateman’s directorial debut “Violet”(2021) uses a range of audiovisual techniques to dig in to this feeling and really make us confront it.

The Hill Where Lionesses Roar: Review

19/12/2021

Youthful rage and frustration is not so often shown from a female perspective but this directorial debut from Kosovan Luàna Bajrami attempts to capture that feeling.

As In Heaven: Review

12/12/2021

“As In Heaven” (2021) is based on a book by Danish author Marie Bregendahl, depicting her own childhood in the 1880s. It is the story of a young girl on the cusp of freedom, hit with a sudden and harsh twist of fate in the worst night of her life.

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