Home Sweet Home Alone, 2021.Directed by Dan Mazer. Starring Archie Yates, Ellie Kemper, Rob Delaney, Pete Holmes, Aisling Bea, and Devin Ratray.SYNOPSIS:A married couple tries to steal back a valuable heirloom from a troublesome kid.The possibilities of streaming cinema’s future are basically limitless, but it’s only inevitable that content networks are going to focus their […]
Movie Review – Red Notice (2021)
Red Notice, 2021.Written and directed by Rawson Marshall Thurber. Starring Dwayne Johnson, Ryan Reynolds, Gal Gadot, Ritu Arya, Chris Diamantopoulos, and Ivan Mbakop.SYNOPSIS:An Interpol agent tracks the world’s most wanted art thief.Much as at-home viewing has surged over the last 20-something months, the one thing that streaming platforms are largely still struggling to offer audiences […]
Video Game Review – Bloodshore
Shaun Munro reviews Bloodshore…Wales Interactive’s efforts to revive the FMV game began rather promisingly with the likes of The Bunker and especially Late Shift. The latter proved to be a competent attempt at a choose-your-own-adventure heist flick, but the publisher’s latest outing feels like a cynical regression to the FMV genre’s chintzy heyday.Bloodshore plays out […]
Video Game Review – The Dark Pictures Anthology: House of Ashes
Shaun Munro reviews The Dark Pictures Anthology: House of Ashes…It’s not unkind to say that The Dark Pictures Anthology – Supermassive Games’ attempt to spin interactive horror game Until Dawn into a wider “universe” of stories – has proven itself a deflating enterprise so far.Neither Man of Medan nor Little Hope got close to capturing their progenitor’s gonzo […]
2021 BFI London Film Festival Review – Lamb
Lamb, 2021.Co-written and Directed by Valdimar Jóhannsson. Starring Noomi Rapace, Hilmir Snær Guðnason, and Björn Hlynur Haraldsson.SYNOPSIS:A childless couple, María and Ingvar, discover a mysterious newborn on their farm in Iceland. The unexpected prospect of family life brings them much joy, before ultimately destroying them.Valdimar Jóhannsson’s directorial debut Lamb is a tricky film to discuss in […]
2021 BFI London Film Festival Review – Petrov’s Flu
Petrov’s Flu, 2021.Written and directed by Kirill Serebrennikov. Starring Semyon Serzin, Chulpan Khamatova, and Yuri Kolokolnikov.SYNOPSIS:A day in the life of a comic book artist and his family in post-Soviet Russia. While suffering from the flu, Petrov is carried by his friend Igor on a long walk, drifting in and out of fantasy and reality.“What […]
2021 BFI London Film Festival Review – The Neutral Ground
The Neutral Ground, 2021.Co-written and directed by CJ Hunt.SYNOPSIS:In December 2015, the New Orleans City Council voted to remove four Confederate monuments from public grounds. A forceful group of critics protested the decision, and fearing retaliation, no crew would agree to remove the statues.Comedy has historically proven to be a sturdy vessel through which to […]
2021 BFI London Film Festival Review – 7 Days
7 Days, 2021.Co-written and directed by Roshan Sethi. Starring Karan Soni, Geraldine Viswanathan, and Mark Duplass.SYNOPSIS:As if their pre-arranged date, organized by their traditional Indian parents, wasn’t uncomfortable enough, Ravi and Rita are forced to shelter in place together as COVID-19’s reach intensifies.18+ months into the pandemic, audiences can’t really be blamed for being thoroughly […]
2021 BFI London Film Festival Review – Babi Yar. Context
Babi Yar. Context, 2021.Directed by Sergei Loznitsa.SYNOPSIS:Nazi troops massacre more than 30,000 Jews over a two-day period in September 1941.Given that the world is typically used to seeing aggressively narrative-driven depictions of the Holocaust – whether cinematic feature or documentary – Sergei Loznitsa’s (Donbass) new doc Babi Yar. Context may seem rather languorous by comparison, even […]
2021 BFI London Film Festival Review – Little Palestine (Diary of a Siege)
Little Palestine (Diary of a Siege), 2021.Directed by Abdallah Al-Khatib.SYNOPSIS:After the Syrian Revolution, Al-Assad’s regime besieges the district of Yarmouk, the largest Palestinian refugee camp in the world. Yarmouk is cut off. The director records the daily deprivations while celebrating the people’s courage.Abdallah Al-Khatib’s deeply upsetting, righteously angry in-the-trenches documentary captures human endurance – and […]
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