Nocturnal, 2019. Directed by Nathalie Biancheri. Starring Cosmo Jarvis, Lauren Coe, and Sadie Frost. SYNOPSIS: Laurie, a cynical schoolgirl, builds and nurtures a secret friendship with Pete, an older man who’s apparently obsessed with her. Nathalie Biancheri makes a bold and distinctive narrative feature debut with a tricky relationship drama which holds viewers in a […]
2019 BFI London Film Festival Review – Honey Boy
Honey Boy, 2019. Directed by Alma Har’el. Starring Shia LaBeouf, Lucas Hedges, and Noah Jupe. SYNOPSIS: A young actor’s stormy childhood and early adult years as he struggles to reconcile with his father and deal with his mental health. Braced somewhere between film-as-therapy and surreal performance-art project, Honey Boy is a Shia LaBeouf-penned collaboration with Alma […]
2019 BFI London Film Festival Review – Color Out of Space
Color Out of Space, 2019. Directed by Richard Stanley. Starring Nicolas Cage, Joely Richardson, and Madeleine Arthur. SYNOPSIS: A town is struck by a meteorite and the fallout is catastrophic. The trio of Nicolas Cage, H.P. Lovecraft and cult filmmaker Richard Stanley (Hardware, Dust Devil) make for compelling bedfellows in this unexpectedly hilarious sci-fi horror, […]
Movie Review – Synchronic (2019)
Synchronic, 2019. Directed by Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead. Starring Anthony Mackie, Jamie Dornan, and Katie Aselton. SYNOPSIS: Two New Orleans paramedics’ lives are ripped apart after encountering a series of horrific deaths linked to a designer drug with bizarre, otherworldly effects. Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead are two of the most distinctive indie genre […]
2019 BFI London Film Festival Review – The Disappearance of My Mother
The Disappearance of My Mother, 2019. Directed by Beniamino Barrese. Starring Beniamino Barrese and Benedetta Barzini. SYNOPSIS: A once-iconic fashion model strives to escape the world of images and disappear for good, but her son’s determination to make a final film about her sparks an unexpected collaboration and confrontation with the camera’s gaze. Beniamino Barrese’s […]
2019 BFI London Film Festival Review – Monsoon
Monsoon, 2019. Directed by Hong Khaou. Starring Henry Golding and Parker Sawyers. SYNOPSIS: Kit, a British Vietnamese man, returns to Saigon for the first time in over 30 years, after fleeing during the Vietnam-American War. Hong Khaou’s follow-up to his 2014 debut Lilting is a similarly sober offering that, despite its scant 86-minute runtime, is in […]
Movie Review – Monos (2019)
Monos, 2019. Directed by Alejandro Landes. Starring Moisés Arias, Julianne Nicholson, Sofia Buenaventura, Karen Quintero, Julian Giraldo, Laura Castrillón, Deibi Rueda, Paul Cubides, Sneider Castro, Wilson Salazar, and Jorge Román. SYNOPSIS: On a faraway mountaintop, eight kids with guns watch over a hostage and a conscripted milk cow. Colombia’s official entry for the upcoming Academy […]
2019 BFI London Film Festival Review – System Crasher
System Crasher, 2019. Directed by Nora Fingscheidt. Starring Helena Zengel, Albrecht Schuch, and Gabriela Maria Schmeide. SYNOPSIS: On her wild quest for love, 9-year-old Benni’s untamed energy drives everyone around her to despair. The feature debut of writer-director Nora Fingscheidt dares to tackle a shockingly under-explored issue in cinema centered around troubled youths; uncontrollable anger, […]
2019 BFI London Film Festival Review – The Lighthouse
The Lighthouse, 2019. Directed by Robert Eggers. Starring Robert Pattinson, Willem Dafoe, and Valeriia Karaman. SYNOPSIS: The hypnotic and hallucinatory tale of two lighthouse keepers on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s. The Lighthouse is about as boldly entrancing a second feature as one could imagine from any filmmaker, let alone Robert […]
2019 BFI London Film Festival Review – Sid & Judy
Sid & Judy, 2019. Directed by Stephen Kijak. Starring Jon Hamm and Jennifer Jason Leigh. SYNOPSIS: A revealing new look at Judy Garland fifty years after her tragic, untimely death, fusing the unpublished recollections of producer, manager and third husband, Sid Luft, with film clips, rare concert footage and Judy’s own inimitable words. Between this documentary […]
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