Watch 'Please Baby Please' on Mubi, psychodrama 'Spoonful of Sugar' on Shudder, plus 'Free Skate' reveals sordid and sensational sides of women's elite sports, and Sam Worthington stars in crime story 'Transfusion' on VOD.
Aimed squarely at fans of John Waters and Pedro Almodóvar, the arty oddity “Please Baby Please” is the kind of cinematic fetish object that should entice anyone who shares director Amanda Kramer’s particular fascinations.
“Please Baby Please” mostly consists of Suzie or Arthur interacting with other hep folks, testing out their new thoughts about sexuality and machismo either through charged conversations or physical encounters. At times the film feels like a series of art installations or even avant-garde dance routines, abstracting and stylizing human passion until it looks like something out of “West Side Story.
There’s not quite enough plot in “Spoonful of Sugar” to fill its running time, though the performances are so lively and director Morgan’s imagery so vivid that the picture is never dull. The film works best when it makes the least sense. The thriller elements — involving who this Millicent really is and what she might be capable of — are the stuff of Lifetime movies.
‘Free Skate.’ In Finnish, Russian and English with subtitles. Not rated. 1 hour, 59 minutes. Available on VODThe Australian crime drama “Transfusion” is 25% slam-bang genre film and 75% melancholy character sketch — a balance tilted too far to the latter.gives a strong performance as Ryan Logan, a special forces operative who returns home after getting wounded, shortly before his wife, Justine , dies in a car crash.
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