Long wrote and stars in this likable genre experiment about mates whose lives take a very weird turn
Scottish film-maker Douglas King makes a really intriguing feature debut with this flawed, but distinctly likable microbudget venture. King directs and edits and the standup comic Josie Long is the screenwriter and star. Together, they have devised a genuine genre experiment. Super November is half mumblecore relationship comedy, half dystopian nightmare.
Josie Long is Josie, who works at a library in Glasgow, where Janey Godley has a funny role as Donna, the permanently hungover chief librarian with an intense dislike of the children’s entertainer who comes in to do the weekly storytelling session (“He makes his own kites: who does that?”). Josie shares a flat with her best friend, the gentle Darren (Darren Osborne) and they hang out with their mate Roddy (James Allenby-Kirk).
Scottish film-maker Douglas King makes a really intriguing feature debut with this flawed, but distinctly likable microbudget venture. King directs and edits and the standup comic Josie Long is the screenwriter and star. Together, they have devised a genuine genre experiment. Super November is half mumblecore relationship comedy, half dystopian nightmare.
Josie Long is Josie, who works at a library in Glasgow, where Janey Godley has a funny role as Donna, the permanently hungover chief librarian with an intense dislike of the children’s entertainer who comes in to do the weekly storytelling session (“He makes his own kites: who does that?”). Josie shares a flat with her best friend, the gentle Darren (Darren Osborne) and they hang out with their mate Roddy (James Allenby-Kirk).
- 11/23/2018
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Spoiler Alert: Do not read if you have not yet watched “America the Beautiful,” the season four premiere of “Outlander.”
The tagline for “Outlander” season four is “Brave the New World,” and the premiere episode wasted no time introducing Claire (Caitriona Balfe) and Jamie (Sam Heughan) to the not-so-beautiful America upon which they landed in the season three finale.
First, they bore witness to the hanging of Jamie’s Ardsmuir Prison comrade Gavin Hayes (James Allenby-Kirk) and would have seen several other men sent to their deaths if a melee hadn’t broken out at the gallows. Regardless of whether the men are criminals and whether they should be subjected to capital punishment, it was a sobering look at frontier life in the early United States, which is a running theme in the premiere. The episode isn’t titled “America the Beautiful” for nothing — it’s a commentary about how they’re in this vast,...
The tagline for “Outlander” season four is “Brave the New World,” and the premiere episode wasted no time introducing Claire (Caitriona Balfe) and Jamie (Sam Heughan) to the not-so-beautiful America upon which they landed in the season three finale.
First, they bore witness to the hanging of Jamie’s Ardsmuir Prison comrade Gavin Hayes (James Allenby-Kirk) and would have seen several other men sent to their deaths if a melee hadn’t broken out at the gallows. Regardless of whether the men are criminals and whether they should be subjected to capital punishment, it was a sobering look at frontier life in the early United States, which is a running theme in the premiere. The episode isn’t titled “America the Beautiful” for nothing — it’s a commentary about how they’re in this vast,...
- 11/5/2018
- by Andrea Reiher
- Variety Film + TV
In this episode of Outlander, titled "A. Malcolm," Claire and Jamie get to know each other again, Jamie's printing business is a front for his real occupation and Claire reunites with other faces from her past.
On the morning of Claire's reappearance, it's business as usual for Jamie. He's got a woman in his life who sends him off to work; he greets acquaintances in the street and arrives at his print shop. He discovers that two men, Hayes (Keith Fleming) and Lesley (James Allenby-Kirk), spent the night there. It seems Jamie is in the habit of printing politically subversive material, and Hayes and Lesley help him distribute it to the masses -- acts punishable by death. Jamie also employs a disgruntled young man named Geordie (Lorn Macdonald), who Jamie sends out on an errand.
On the morning of Claire's reappearance, it's business as usual for Jamie. He's got a woman in his life who sends him off to work; he greets acquaintances in the street and arrives at his print shop. He discovers that two men, Hayes (Keith Fleming) and Lesley (James Allenby-Kirk), spent the night there. It seems Jamie is in the habit of printing politically subversive material, and Hayes and Lesley help him distribute it to the masses -- acts punishable by death. Jamie also employs a disgruntled young man named Geordie (Lorn Macdonald), who Jamie sends out on an errand.
- 10/22/2017
- by editor@buddytv.com
- buddytv.com
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