Shadows Contactless: Netflix Party Friday April 17 8.30 pm : COLOSSAL

Gloria has pushed everyone she knows to the limit, fired from her job she partys with anyone she can find and then gets fired from her relationship. She slumps back to her hometown in a bid to recover and meets up with a guy she knew from school. He has issues of his own. Hey, a problem shared .... It doesn't take long for the combined repressed anger to surge out but it isn't the way you'd expect as reports of a giant monster destroying the city of Seoul blast on to the tv screen. When Gloria looks at the beast she can't help noticing it moves the same as she does. Oh so THAAAT'S what the prologue is about!

Nacho Vigalondo's strange fable is a darkly comic journey into the recesses of personal vaults and their murky secrets and demons, going beyond the simple monster=equals anger on the surface. This a talenot just of power against power but of understanding power. Vigalondo's third film (after the extraordinary and lean Timecrimes and the compelling if flawed Open Windows) sees him smooth out the seams where good ideas press against the need for narrative and he has a solid cast led by Anne Hathaway and Jason Sudeikis to provide a chemistry that both plays into and defies any rom com expectations we might get. It's all about the build and the build is good.

Your chair! .... Your couch!

See you on Friday.