Earthquake Bird, 2019.Written and directed by Wash Westmoreland. Starring Alicia Vikander, Riley Keough, and Naoki Kobayashi.SYNOPSIS:A young woman living in Tokyo becomes the prime suspect in a horrific murder when her friend goes missing in the wake of a tumultuous love triangle.Acclaimed filmmaker Wash Westmoreland (Still Alice, Colette) tries his hand at the thriller genre […]
2019 BFI London Film Festival Review – First Love
First Love, 2019.Directed by Takashi Miike. Starring Becky, Masataka Kubota, Nao Omori, Masaaki Uchino, Shota Sometani, Takehiro Miura, Sakurako Konishi, Jun Murakami, and Sansei Shiomi.SYNOPSIS:A young boxer and a call girl get caught up in a drug-smuggling scheme over the course of one night in Tokyo.The latest film from the industrious Takashi Miike – “only” […]
2019 BFI London Film Festival Review – Burning Cane
Burning Cane, 2019.Directed by Phillip Youmans. Starring Wendell Pierce, Karen Kaia Livers, and Dominique McClellan.SYNOPSIS:Amongst the cane fields of rural Louisiana, an aging mother struggles between her religious convictions and the love of her son.Phillip Youmans delivers one of the most precocious feature debuts in recent memory with Burning Cane, a film so studied in its […]
2019 BFI London Film Festival Review – Leap of Faith
Leap of Faith, 2019.Written and directed by Alexandre O. Philippe. Starring William Friedkin.SYNOPSIS:A lyrical and spiritual cinematic essay on The Exorcist, Leap of Faith explores the uncharted depths of William Friedkin’s mind’s eye, the nuances of his filmmaking process, and the mysteries of faith and fate that have shaped his life and filmography.Veteran pop-culture documentarian […]
Movie Review – Little Monsters (2019)
Little Monsters, 2019.Written and directed by Abe Forsythe. Starring Lupita Nyong’o, Josh Gad, Alexander England, Nadia Townsend, Kat Stewart, Diesel La Torraca, and Stephen Peacocke.SYNOPSIS:A washed-up musician teams up with a teacher and a kids show personality to protect young children from a sudden outbreak of zombies.Watching this Australian rom-zom-com from director Abe Forsythe (Down […]
2019 BFI London Film Festival Review – Knives Out
Knives Out, 2019.Written and directed by Rian Johnson. Starring Daniel Craig, Ana De Armas, Lakeith Stanfield, Chris Evans, Jamie Lee Curtis, Toni Collette, Don Johnson, Michael Shannon, Christopher Plummer, Katherine Langford, Jaeden Martell, and Riki Lindholme.SYNOPSIS:When renowned crime novelist Harlan Thrombey (Christopher Plummer) is found dead at his estate just after his 85th birthday, the […]
2019 BFI London Film Festival Review – The El Duce Tapes
The El Duce Tapes, 2019.Directed by Rodney Ascher, David Lawrence, and Ryan Sexton. Starring Eldon Hoke and Steve Broy.SYNOPSIS:A posthumous examination of the life and times of controversial shock rocker Eldon Hoke, better known as El Duce, the lead singer of Seattle-based “rape-rock” band The Mentors.To many – this critic included – shock rocker El […]
2019 BFI London Film Festival Review – Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound
Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound, 2019.Directed by Midge Costin. Starring Walter Murch, Ben Burtt, Steven Spielberg, David Lynch, Sofia Coppola, and Ryan Coogler.SYNOPSIS:An exploration of the history, artistry, and emotional power of cinema sound, as revealed by legendary sound designers and visionary directors, via interviews, clips from movies, and a look at their […]
2019 BFI London Film Festival Review – Rewind
Rewind, 2019.Directed by Sasha Joseph Neulinger. Starring Sasha Joseph Neulinger.SYNOPSIS:Digging through the vast collection of his father’s home videos, a young man reconstructs the unthinkable story of his boyhood and exposes vile abuse passed through generations.Is there a more noble use of filmmaking, especially the documentary form, than to lay one’s own suffering bare in […]
2019 BFI London Film Festival Review – A White, White Day
A White, White Day, 2019.Written and directed by Hlynur Pálmason. Starring Ingvar E Sigurðsson and Ída Mekkín Hlynsdóttir.SYNOPSIS:In a remote Icelandic town, an off duty police chief begins to suspect a local man for having had an affair with his wife, who recently died in a car accident. Gradually his obsession for finding out the […]
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