this week on 100 Films

A new month began this week (right back at the start, remember?), meaning it was time to look back at the last one on 100 Films in a Year...





Plus, 2 new reviews were published this week...


Cotton Wool (2017)

there are around 243,000 carers under the age of 19 in England and Wales alone, with 22,000 of those under the age of nine. Writer-director Nicholas Connor’s short film seeks to highlight this issue — it’s quite shocking how many young lives are affected by the need to look after other family members because there’s no one else to do it. But the short is also “inspired by their courage”, and so it strikes an optimistic tone about the power of love and the value of family, rather than spending too much time in condemnation of a system that leaves these youngsters largely unsupported.

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Resident Evil (2002)

Writer-director Paul W.S. Anderson took inspiration from early John Carpenter movies to create a lean action/thriller/horror flick, which drives the viewer from set piece to set piece with quickly-sketched characterisation (or, in many cases, none at all) and a mysterious backstory to be uncovered. It’s no masterpiece, but it’s a solid 90-minutes-and-change genre fix.

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More next Sunday.