Monthly culture: June 2022

02JUN22: Space Sweepers (Jo Sung-hee, 2021), Netflix
Initially confusing but, after that, immensely good fun: a diverse, polyglot solar-system-based space story( Read more... )

11JUN22: Starcrossed (Rachel Garnet / Shakespeare), Wiltons Music Hall
A reimagining of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet focussing on Tybalt and Mercutio, and positing a tragic love story between the two. ( Read more... )

16JUN22: A Futile and Stupid Gesture (Wain, 2018), Netflix
Fictionalised biopic of Doug Kenney, co-founder of National Lampoon, and his oscillating friendship with Henry Beard. ( Read more... )

23JUN22: The House (de Swaef / Roels / von Bahr / Baeza, 2022), Netflix
Three surreal, stop-motion animated shorts, made by different directors / artistic teams, centred on a single house. ( Read more... )

24JUN22: Lightyear (MacLane, 2022), Greenwich PictureHouse
I think I would have enjoyed this a lot more if I hadn't known that Lightyear was voiced by Chris Evans: as it was, my hindbrain kept comparing the character and his arc to Captain America( Read more... )

30JUN22: Tove (Bergroth, 2020), BBC iPlayer
Finnish-made biopic of the early life of Tove Jansson, creator of the Moomins, covering about a decade (1944-54) of her life( Read more... )