“Dream Horse” – “Can’t be that bad. The pigeons keep coming back.” Jan Vokes (Toni Collette) walks by the aforementioned message – purposely painted on a closed florist shop – when walking home with a couple of plastic grocery bags in hand. Economic hard times have hit her little Welsh community, as high-dollar corporations haven’t yet discovered this village that charmingly sits like a dollop on the bank of a rolling green knoll assembly, a classic example of the country’s landscape. It’s not a surprise that director Euros Lyn captured…
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It’s okay to walk away from ‘You Should Have Left’
“You Should Have Left” – “Violent or upsetting dreams are the mind’s attempt to release the pressures of our daily thoughts and fears.” Theo Conroy (Kevin Bacon) frequently listens to self-help audiobooks these days. You see, he has bad dreams, and the latest includes his 6-year-old daughter Ella (Avery Tiiu Essex): a creepy man, who partially conceals his face with a baseball hat and glasses, attacks Ella in her bedroom. This horrible visual would undoubtedly send any semi-caring father into a tizzy. Theo, however, is a full-caring father, and outside…