iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Alex O’Reilly @sisch35.bsky.social · 11h

📽️ #filmsky Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll (2010) UK Biopic of Ian Dury here played by the brilliant Andy Serkis. Despite being blighted by polio at a young age he rises above adversity and bullying to eminence as a truly original artist. His life is chaotic in keeping with the Punk scene.

000

Alex O’Reilly @sisch35.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

📽️ #filmsky Everlasting Moments (2008) Sweden Sweden, early 1900s, an era of social change, unrest, war and poverty. Young working class Maria wins a camera in a lottery. Despite raising a family and dealing with her womanising though loving husband she finds a “voice’ through her camera’s eye.

020

Alex O’Reilly @sisch35.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

📽️ #filmsky Rose of Nevada (2025) UK Three decades ago, the Rose of Nevada vanished at sea, along with its crew. Now, it has returned. Its reappearance is embraced as an auspicious sign, with the local citizens convinced the luck of their economically devastated community may turn. 1/

130

Alex O’Reilly @sisch35.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

📽️ #filmsky Rudo y Cursi (2008) Mexico The two eponymous half-brothers dream of escaping from their tough challenging lives working on a plantation. The arrival of a football scout brings about a ‘promising’ future. But they have other passions too and conflicts arise. 1/

130

Alex O’Reilly @sisch35.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

📽️ #filmsky Coraline (2009) Animation Bored young girl Coraline discovers a hidden door in her new rambling old house. It takes her to another world seemingly more welcoming than her own. Her new family there invites her to stay forever…….but…1/

120

Alex O’Reilly @sisch35.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

📽️ #filmsky Anything for Her (2008) France Julien’s wife is arrested and imprisoned for 20 years for the crime of murder. The evidence is strong but he, an unprepossessing teacher is convinced otherwise. He must transform and associate with dodgy criminals to effect her release. Powerful thriller.

030

Alex O’Reilly @sisch35.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

📽️ #filmsky The Band’s Visit (2007) Egypt The Alexandria Ceremonial Police Orchestra arrives in Israel from Egypt for a cultural event. They slowly become aware they are in the wrong town. And what follows is engagement of members with locals. Funny and warm hearted Cannes winner. NB pre Gaza war.

121

Alex O’Reilly @sisch35.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

📽️ #filmsky My Brother is an Only Child (2007) Italy Family saga about two brothers in the 60’s travelling different paths. One charming and leftist, the other serious joins the fascists. Over 10 years romance, family, politics and responsibilities flesh the story. Blood is thicker....IMDB 7.0

020

Alex O’Reilly @sisch35.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

📽️ #filmsky Exit through the Gift Shop.(2010) UK The story of how an eccentric French shop-keeper and amateur film-maker attempted to locate and befriend Banksy, only to have the artist turn the camera back on its owner. 1/

120

Alex O’Reilly @sisch35.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

📽️ #filmsky Easier with Practice (2009) US A young aspiring writer, Davy, becoming despondent and alone receives a phone call in his motel room. It develops into a long term relationship with a woman. Trying to progress to meeting Nicole will bring insight. 1/

120

Alex O’Reilly @sisch35.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

📽️ #filmsky Bluebeard (2009) France Two sisters read the classic story of a 17th century wealthy divorcee Bluebeard. It features two impoverished sisters one of whom chooses to marry him despite the rumours of him having murdered his previous wives.1/

130

Alex O’Reilly @sisch35.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

📽️ #filmsky Biutiful (2011). Spain Uxbal (Javier Bardem) a career criminal learns he is dying of cancer. He cares for family and the poor. He must square things in life and also in spirit in the months remaining for him. Oscar Nominated for his role in this Alejandro Inarritu (Amores Perres) film.

020

Alex O’Reilly @sisch35.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

📽️ #filmsky Inside Job (2010) US Do you want to know about the 2008 global financial collapse? It’s unsurprisingly not a pretty story. Exhaustive research and interviews reveal the sordid details and as the tagline says it all. “Scarier than anything Wes Craven and John Carpenter have ever made”.

040

Alex O’Reilly @sisch35.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

📽️ #filmsky On the Street (2019) Japan Aoi lives a simple life in a boring job, enjoying going to bookstores and bars on his own. But it is to become complicated when he gets involved with 4 women. Shown by the Peterborough Film Society 5th July 2011. IMDB 7.1

030

Alex O’Reilly @sisch35.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

📽️ #filmsky On Tour (Tournee) 2010 France Impresario Joachim brings a burlesque troupe to France from the US. He hopes eventually to conquer Paris. It’s not an easy journey and financial worries abound. The return to Paris opens old wounds. 1/

120

Alex O’Reilly @sisch35.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

📽️ #filmsky The Arbor (2010) UK Biographical portrait of Bradford playwright Andrea Dunbar (Rita, Sue and Bob too). Actors lip-sync to recordings of people involved in her life. The life story is as dramatic as her work

020

Alex O’Reilly @sisch35.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

📽️ #filmsky Another Year (2010) UK A Mike Leigh film following a married couple’s life through 4 seasons in an average year. They are content in their relationship. And yet with family and friends not everything runs smoothly and the interactions are profound.

020

Alex O’Reilly @sisch35.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

📽️ #filmsky The Girl who Played with Fire (2009) Sweden Second instalment of the “Dragon Tattoo “ trilogy with Noomi Rapace reprieving the role. It can’t equal the first but the characters are strong and the story line of our journalist seeking to clear our favourite hacker’s name is satisfying.

020

Alex O’Reilly @sisch35.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

📽️ #filmsky The Men who Stare at Goats. (2009) US The story arises from an investigative book by Jon Ronson in 2004 on attempts to research US military’s interest in psychic powers. A hit and miss farce saved by George Clooney’s rendition of special forces operator Lyn Cassady.

040

Alex O’Reilly @sisch35.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

📽️ #filmsky Me and Orson Welles (2008) US Richard Samuels (Zac Efron) gets the opportunity of a lifetime when famed director Orson Welles (Christian McKay) gives him a small role in his 1937 production of "Julius Caesar. It’s going to be organised chaos. 1/

120

Alex O’Reilly @sisch35.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

📽️ #filmsky Glorious 39 (2009) UK 1939. All star cast in a story of subterfuge and betrayal involving the adopted daughter of a British politician from an influential family. Written/directed by Stephen Poliakoff renowned for his interest in the subject of Fascism. Demands a knowledge of history.

040

Alex O’Reilly @sisch35.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

📽️ #filmsky Morris: A Life with Bells on (2009) UK The unique English tradition of Morris dancing is challenged by an avant garde troupe hoping to evolve it. It helps to be English to understand this and it’s really enjoyable if you are. Try some true British culture.

020

Alex O’Reilly @sisch35.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

📽️ #filmsky Nowhere Boy (2009) UK The back story of John Lennon’s early formative years and the revelation that his “mother’ is in fact his aunt Mimi (Kristen Scott-Thomas). It also covers the time when his true mother returns into his life at a crucial time.

020

Alex O’Reilly @sisch35.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

📽️ #filmsky A Serious Man (2009) US A Coen brothers film says it all. Minnesota 1967 and a Jewish physics teacher is a very put-upon man. Multiple sudden incidents cause his life to unravel. Darkly funny.

040

Alex O’Reilly @sisch35.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

📽️ #filmsky 35 Shots of Rum (2008). France A single parent father has brought up his child from infancy. Their close relationship morphs as she wishes to care for him and he wishes her to find her way in the world. A Claire Denis film who again is like Bovril to some.

020

Alex O’Reilly @sisch35.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

📽️ #filmsky An Education (2009) UK 60’s London and at school Jenny is aiming to go to Oxford. An encounter with a mysterious older man opens a world outside her reclusive life. But this “education” reveals something more about him and his friends.. Should she stay or go? Writer; Nick Hornby

050

Alex O’Reilly @sisch35.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

📽️ #filmsky Mesrine Part 2 Public Enemy No 1 (2008) France The concluding film about the notorious gangster Jacques Mesrine (Vincent Cassel). It covers his multiple robberies and prison escapes in the 70’s . Lighter in mood than part 1 but you know it will not end well for him.

030

Alex O’Reilly @sisch35.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

📽️ #filmsky Katyn (2007) Poland Russia invades Poland September 1939. A wife sees her Polish Office husband taken away. In 1943 the German discover mass graves in the forests of Katyn. The horror of it made poignant by the personal story. 1/

120

Alex O’Reilly @sisch35.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

📽️ #filmsky Synecdoche, New York (2008) US A theatre director, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, re creates New York City in a Warehouse as the setting fro “Death of a Salesman”. His own life events and an autonomic condition spirals the whole affair. 1/

140

Alex O’Reilly @sisch35.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

📽️ #filmsky Is Anybody There? (2008) UK In a 1960’s seaside old people’s home, 10 year old Edward tape records the residents to discover what happens when they die. The arrival of a new resident, Clarence (Michael Caine), begins a kind of relationship. Pathos, humour and adult about ageing.

030

Alex O’Reilly @sisch35.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

📽️ #filmsky Blue Eyelids (2007) Mexico Marina, a factory worker, wins a trip for two. Trouble is she is alone and introverted. She ends up taking Victor, a former classmate though not remembered. What follows is awkward and at times funny. It is a kind of romance story but more than that.

030

Alex O’Reilly @sisch35.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

📽️ #filmsky Il Divo (2008) Italy Since the establishment of democracy in 1944 Italy, Giulio Andretti has been president 7 times. Clearly this achievement will raise uncomfortable questions. Sorrentino exposes the machinations and intrigues including the ‘disappearances' of his political enemies.

030

Alex O’Reilly @sisch35.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

📽️ #filmsky In the Loop (2009) UK On off the cuff remark by a British minister has to be “spun” to prevent its stimulating a war in the Middle East. The US becomes interested and matters could lead to a UN approved intervention. 1/

140

Alex O’Reilly @sisch35.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

📽️ #filmsky The Good the Bad and the Weird (2008) Korea Action packed “Eastern” set in 40’s Manchuria. There’s a treasure map, rival brothers, the Japanese army and bandits all getting in on the act kind of paralleling Leone’s great film. Great fun.

020

Alex O’Reilly @sisch35.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

📽️ #filmsky The Edge of Heaven (2008) Turkey A father houses a prostitute in his German apartment to protect her despite the disapproval of his son. A tragic event connects the son to Turkey in search of her daughter. Complex drama replete with coincidence. Bears rewatching and even a follow up.

020

Alex O’Reilly @sisch35.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

📽️ #filmsky Garage (2007) Ireland Josie has spent all his adult life as the caretaker of a crumbling petrol station on the outskirts of a small town in the mid-west of Ireland. His settled ways are slowly changed with arrival of teenager, David, expanding his world. 1/

120

Alex O’Reilly @sisch35.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

📽️ #filmsky The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007) France The true story of a paralysed man, former editor of Elle, who post a stroke can only communicate with his eyes. We sit inside his worldview and begin to understand the title. IMDB 8.0

040

Alex O’Reilly @sisch35.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

📽️ #filmsky Broken Embraces (2009) Spain Almodovar’s 4th film is a sort of soap opera story featuring Penelope Cruz who comes between two friends as mistress to one, Ernesto, and desire of the other, film director Mateo. Ernesto’s death prompts Mateo’s reflection. 1/

130

Alex O’Reilly @sisch35.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

📽️ #filmsky Antichrist (2009) US A broken-hearted couple seek answers and closure in the heart of a verdant terrestrial paradise. They embark on a self-therapeutic journey into their darkest fears. 1/

131

Alex O’Reilly @sisch35.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

📽️ #filmsky Rumba (2008) Fr Canada Teachers in a rural school, happy couple Fiona and Dom have a common passion: Latin Dancing. A car accident threatens to change their passion. But this is a comedy, of sorts, and optimism and charm will effect the outcome.

040

Alex O’Reilly @sisch35.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

📽️ #filmsky Boston Kickout (1995) UK Small independent film set in Stevenage about lads coping with boredom and gaining some release through a game of the same title. Matters change for one with the arrival Shona. Well received by our Film Society back then when the director attended.

030

Alex O’Reilly @sisch35.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

📽️ #filmsky The Hide (2008) UK A twitcher is looking to complete the sightings of all UK bird species. His scoping in a Suffolk hide is disturbed by bedraggled ‘tramp' like stranger entering. A slow bond develops and the past invades the present.

040

Alex O’Reilly @sisch35.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

📽️ #filmsky Le Donk and Scor-zay-zee (2009) UK This low-budget rockumentary follows Le Donk and Scorz on their journey of a lifetime. Shane Meadows’s film with Paddy Considine. Famously filmed over 5 days and improvised about a plot to make Scor-zay-zee a Rap star.

020

Alex O’Reilly @sisch35.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

📽️ #filmsky Bright Star (2009) UK Jane Campion writes and directs this period drama about the romance between the poet John Keats and Fanny a dressmaking neighbour. 1/

131

Alex O’Reilly @sisch35.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

📽️ #filmsky Thirst (2009) Korea Sang-hyun (Song Kang-ho), a respected priest, volunteers for an experimental procedure that may lead to a cure for a deadly virus. He gets infected and dies, but a blood transfusion of unknown origin brings him back to life as a vampire. 1/

120

Alex O’Reilly @sisch35.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

📽️ #filmsky Mesrine: Part 1- Killer Instinct (2008) France Vincent Cassell in the role of the legendary French gangster who becomes public enemy No. 1. It’s the 70’s and he is making a name for himself with numerous series crimes. 1/

120

Alex O’Reilly @sisch35.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

📽️ #filmsky O’Horten (2009) Norway At the age of 67, Odd Horten is forced to retire from his longtime job as a train engineer. Having lived nearly his whole adult life in the shadow of the rail yard, he finds it difficult to adjust to his new life. 1/

120

Alex O’Reilly @sisch35.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

📽️ #filmsky Notes on Blindness (2016) UK Documentary In the summer of 1983, just days before the birth of his first son, writer and theologian John Hull went blind. In order to make sense of the upheaval in his life, he began keeping a diary on audiocassette. 1/

120

Alex O’Reilly @sisch35.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

📽️ #filmsky I’ve Loved you so Long (2008) France After serving 15 years in prison for killing her young son, Juliette (Kristin Scott Thomas) moves in with her younger sister. The crime sits between them but Juliette wants to reconnect. It’s complicated...

030

Alex O’Reilly @sisch35.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

📽️ #filmsky La Zona (2007) Mexico A young lad discovers a delinquent escaping the vigilante reaction of his gated community in the heart of Mexico City. A slick thriller that also is pointedly metaphoric.

020