The first thing we see in Matriarch is adult Christine (Olivia Day) and five-year-old boy Sam (Joshua Protzmann) asleep in bed alongside one another – for here, no relationship is more important or central than that between this young mother and her son. Christine’s partner Brad (K.C. Wolf) staggers into the apartment drunk and stoned,…
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Hungry Joe (2020)
Hungry Joe opens with a montage: snatches of home video from 1998 and 1999, in which happy couple Laura (Laura Bayston) and Craig (Joe Sims) learn of Laura’s pregnancy and move into a new home, intercut with footage of a fire blazing intensely. These are something like ‘before’ and ‘after’ shots, leaving the sense that…