2020s Archives - Desperate Living

Folking Hell: The Depressing Failure Of All You Need Is Death

All You Need is Death is full of interesting ideas, but leaves them undeveloped as it delivers a string of Folk Horror cliches.

Raindance 2023: Sex With Sue

A remarkable documentary about Canada’s ‘potty-mouthed Grandma’ and leading sex educator.

Raindance 2023: Mountain Onion

Family disintegration, rural machismo and the search for Golden Viagra in this charming coming-of-age movie.

Raindance 2023: Tender Metalheads

A charming animated film about the power of music to help the lost and broken find identity and friendship.

Mayhem Film Festival 2023: River

Continuing our guide to the Nottingham festival’s highlights with a look at the most charming piece of time slip sci-fi that you’ll ever see.

The Wonderfully Absurd Pleasures Of Cocaine Bear

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If you go down in the woods today, you’re sure of a big surprise – this high-concept monster movie is the most shamelessly fun film to come along in ages.

Cocaine Bear Takes Animal Attack Films To A Higher Level

“An apex predator… high on cocaine… out of its mind.”

Raindance 2022: Bawa’s Garden

An arrestingly minimalist and slow-paced look at architecture, nature and the nature of the outsider.

Raindance 2022: Marcel!

Jasmine Trinca’s tale of narcissism, mother and daughter bonding and a road trip gone bad is not exactly fun but is nevertheless oddly rewarding.

Mayhem 2022: Unicorn Wars

The Spanish animated war film pits Care Bears against Unicorns – but it transcends its conceit to become a bleak, unsettling tale of conflict, sibling rivalry and madness.

He’s Back: Patryk Vega’s Invisible War (Niewidzialna Wojna)

Poland’s most prolific and eccentric action film director goes all autobiographical in his new film. Is the world ready?

Anthropophagous II: An Exercise In Worthless Opportunism

The newly-made follow-up – in name only – to the notorious Video Nasty is not an enjoyable viewing experience.