Pain and Glory, 2019. Directed by Pedro Almodovar. Starring Antonio Banderas, Asier Etxeandia, Penélope Cruz, Leonardo Sbaraglia, César Vicente, Asier Flores, Nora Navas, Julieta Serrano and Raúl Arévalo. SYNOPSIS: An ageing filmmaker is haunted by some of the ghosts of his past as he prepares for a restored screening of one of his most memorable […]
Movie Review – Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (2019)
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, 2019. Directed by André Øvredal. Starring Zoe Colletti, Michael Garza, Austin Zajur, Austin Abrams, Gabriel Rush, Natalie Ganzhorn, Dean Norris and Javier Botet. SYNOPSIS: A group of teenagers are pursued by various supernatural beasties when they uncover an old book from a haunted house. The importance of gateway […]
Heathers with film critic Hanna Flint | The Pick of the Flicks Podcast #49
On The Pick of the Flicks Podcast, a different guest drops in every week to chat about their favourite film. This week, film critic Hanna Flint stops by to chat about 80s cult teen classic Heathers… On the latest episode of The Pick of the Flicks Podcast, film critic Hanna Flint comes on to chat […]
Movie Review – Crawl (2019)
Crawl, 2019. Directed by Alexandre Aja. Starring Kaya Scodelario, Barry Pepper, Morfydd Clark and Ross Anderson. SYNOPSIS: A young woman attempting to rescue her injured father from his house in the middle of a hurricane finds herself terrorised by aggressive alligators. Crocodiles and alligators are great. Movies about them, however, are often not. There’s very […]
Inglourious Basterds with film critic Katie Smith-Wong | The Pick of the Flicks Podcast #48
On The Pick of the Flicks Podcast, a different guest drops in every week to chat about their favourite film. This week, film critic Katie Smith-Wong discusses Quentin Tarantino’s bloody WW2 tale Inglourious Basterds… On the latest episode of The Pick of the Flicks Podcast, film critic Katie Smith-Wong pops by to discuss some Quentin […]
The Road with filmmaker and actor Marc Zammit – The Pick of the Flicks Podcast #47
On The Pick of the Flicks Podcast, a different guest drops in every week to chat about their favourite film. This week, filmmaker Marc Zammit discusses the intense, apocalyptic drama The Road… On the latest episode of The Pick of the Flicks Podcast, actor and director Marc Zammit stops by to discuss his recently completed […]
Movie Review – Dora and the Lost City of Gold (2019)
Dora and the Lost City of Gold, 2019. Directed by James Bobin. Starring Isabela Moner, Jeff Wahlberg, Michael Peña, Eva Longoria, Eugenio Derbez, Madeleine Madden, Nicholas Coombe, Benicio del Toro and Danny Trejo. SYNOPSIS: After growing up in the jungle with her explorer parents, Dora must take on being a high school student, at least […]
Movie Review – The Angry Birds Movie 2 (2019)
The Angry Birds Movie 2, 2019. Directed by Thurop Van Orman. Starring Jason Sudeikis, Josh Gad, Danny McBride, Rachel Bloom, Bill Hader, Leslie Jones, Awkwafina, Sterling K Brown, Peter Dinklage and Tiffany Haddish. SYNOPSIS: The birds and pigs put their differences aside in order to take on the threat posed by an icy third island, […]
Movie Review – JT LeRoy (2018)
JT LeRoy, 2018. Directed by Justin Kelly. Starring Kristen Stewart, Laura Dern, Diane Kruger, Jim Sturgess, Kelvin Harrison Jr. and Courtney Love. SYNOPSIS: The true story of the literary phenomenon, who was actually not a troubled young man, but a middle-aged woman working with the aid of her partner’s androgynous sister. The story of JT […]
Movie Review – Photograph (2019)
Photograph, 2019. Directed by Ritesh Batra. Starring Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Sanya Malhotra and Farrukh Jaffar. SYNOPSIS: A Mumbai street photographer asks a customer to pose as his fiancée when his over-bearing grandmother comes to visit. Humble is very much the word to describe Ritesh Batra’s Photograph. It’s a humble, unassuming movie about humble, unassuming people, set […]