The Girl King

Went to watch this on my birthday with my mother - then got very embarrassed when lesbian sex started. With that out of the way let me get started on the film...

This is a historical drama about a reforming unmarried Swedish Queen alone on the throne at the time of religious upheaval between Protestants and Catholics. This sounds a lot like Elizabeth 1st but with an addition - hence my embarrassment because I didn't know that. The addition being in reality Queen Christina was suspected to be a lesbian, in the film they make this explicit. For some reason even though English was a second language for the actors they mainly spoke English some intonation was off a bit which was off-putting. Loved the outfits though. Overall I'd rate the film a 3/5.

Bon Cop, Bad Cop

   

Another comedy, this time of the Canadian variety. A black humour crime comedy where a French speaking Quebec cop and an English speaking Ontario cop with very different views of the world end of working together on a puzzling case when a body ends up on the dividing sign between their provinces.

 

I don't want to spoil the twists and turns here, just want to say I found myself laughing out loud frequently. I don't know where I found the trailer but after I felt I must find a copy and I'm glad I did. I recommend to everyone. 5/5.

 

Couldn't find a English subtitled trailer I'm afraid but you can get the gist.