Let me start with an admission: I don’t know anything about Bhutanese politics, so I can’t really tell you how accurate this is. My understanding of the history of Bhutan is on the Wikipedia level, so accurate, but surface-level. One thing to note here is that the country did not become a full democracy but instead moved from absolute monarchy to constitutional monarchy. What has happened after the events of the movie is that last year Bhutan was removed from the UN list of least developed countries.

And is this “refreshingly different”? The more I think about it the less I’m sure about this.

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I don’t usually go out and watch biographies of musicians, because they tend to be so formulaic. In this case, I didn’t know its a real rap group, so I guess that kind of saved this for me. The movie actually makes fun of formulaic movies straight from the start. It begins with archive footage from the Troubles, including burning cars and unruly mobs (although I don’t want to disbarrage the people fighting for their freedom), but the narrator just stops that and tells us that every Irish movie that references the Troubles in any way always starts like this, but their story doesn’t.

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After seeing a couple great movies directed by people better known as actors, I started to think about this. How often does it really happen? There’s plenty of actors who have tried their hand at directing, such as Jack Nicholson, Johnny Depp and Bill Paxton, to mixed results, but one would think there are benefits to coming up through the acting pipeline.

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I previously mentioned this theme as something I might want to do a favorite list on, but having realized that I just haven’t seen enough of these, I decided that maybe I’ll try this instead. So, here is a very subjective ranking of all the Australian horror movies I’ve seen.

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There’s a piece of trivia on IMDb I find perplexing.

Said to be following wealthy people, a first for director Sean Baker.

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Note that the key here is “spooky” season. There’s a playful side to this. It’s not all blood and gore or psychological torment. It’s about having fun with the possibility of those. So, no Halloween here.

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Specifically movies made in the 80s, not movies about the 80s.

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Ow wow, that’s so stupid that I can’t be possibly the first one to come up with that joke.

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Why 1977? That is the year I was born (which does mean that I only have second-hand experience of this year). Also, it’s a weirdly important year in terms of movies. Also, I did plan to just do this for each year after my birth. My overall goal with these kinds of articles is to use different excuses to talk about different movies, which might hopefully lead someone to find something new to watch. This specific year has plenty.

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