Mangrove, 2020. Directed by Steve McQueen. Starring Shaun Parkes, Letitia Wright, Malachi Kirby, Rochenda Sandall, Sam Spruell, Jack Lowden and Alex Jennings. SYNOPSIS: In 1970s London, police harassment of a crucial community hub for local Black people leads to a peaceful protest, which ends up in a court room. Steve McQueen is effectively a lucky […]
Movie Review – Saint Maud (2019)
Saint Maud, 2019. Directed by Rose Glass. Starring Morfydd Clark, Jennifer Ehle, Lily Frazer, Lily Knight, Rosie Sansom and Turlough Convery. SYNOPSIS: After recently finding religion, a nurse tries to put her past aside as she becomes the full-time carer of a terminally ill woman. It has been a long old journey to the UK […]
Movie Review – Miss Juneteenth (2020)
Miss Juneteenth, 2020. Directed by Channing Godfrey Peoples. Starring Nicole Beharie, Alexis Chikaeze, Kendrick Sampson, Akron Watson, Marcus Mauldin, Liz Mikel and Lori Hayes. SYNOPSIS: A former beauty pageant winner tries to help her daughter win the same title, 15 years later. Juneteenth is an annual celebration in the USA to mark the 19th June […]
Movie Review – Secret Society of Second-Born Royals (2020)
Secret Society of Second-Born Royals, 2020. Directed by Anna Mastro. Starring Peyton Elizabeth Lee, Noah Lomax, Isabella Blake-Thomas, Niles Fitch, Olivia Deeble, Faly Rakotohavana, Skylar Astin, Élodie Yung, Ashley Liao and Greg Bryk. SYNOPSIS: The teenage second children of various royals discover that their birth status has presented them with super-powers and that they have […]
Movie Review – Rocks (2019)
Rocks, 2019. Directed by Sarah Gavron. Starring Bukky Bakray, D’angelou Osei Kissiedu, Kosar Ali, Shaneigha-Monik Greyson, Tawheda Begum, Ruby Stokes and Sarah Niles. SYNOPSIS: When her mother disappears without warning, a teenage girl and her younger brother take to the streets in order to avoid the care system. One of the bright spots of this […]
Movie Review – Barking Dogs Never Bite (2000)
Barking Dogs Never Bite, 2000. Directed by Bong Joon-ho. Starring Bae Doona, Lee Sung-jae, Kim Ho-jung, Byun Hee-bong, Go Soo-hee and Kim Roi-ha. SYNOPSIS: An out-of-work professor wages a violent crusade against noisy dogs in his apartment complex. It’s fitting, in many ways, that Bong Joon-ho’s idiosyncratic first feature Barking Dogs Never Bite hit cinema […]
Movie Review – Spiral (2019)
Spiral, 2019. Directed by Kurtis David Harder. Starring Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman, Ari Cohen, Jennifer Laporte, Chandra West, Lochlyn Munro and Ty Wood. SYNOPSIS: A gay couple flees the city to move somewhere quieter, only to find that the polite facade of their new hometown is concealing a sinister secret. In cinema, the suburbs are always something […]
Movie Review – The Unfamiliar (2020)
The Unfamiliar, 2020. Directed by Henk Pretorius. Starring Jemima West, Christopher Dane, Harry McMillan-Hunt, Rebecca Hanssen, Rachel Lin and Ben Lee. SYNOPSIS: A mother returns home from military service to find that her son has changed significantly and her husband is discussing an unusual change of career. British horror The Unfamiliar begins with an efficiently […]
Movie Review – The Devil All the Time (2020)
The Devil All the Time, 2020. Directed by Antonio Campos. Starring Tom Holland, Eliza Scanlen, Sebastian Stan, Robert Pattinson, Riley Keough, Jason Clarke, Bill Skarsgård, Haley Bennett, Harry Melling and Mia Wasikowska. SYNOPSIS: In a tiny Ohio community, the lives of various people intertwine in macabre and violent ways. Southern Gothic is one of the […]
Movie Review – The Broken Hearts Gallery (2020)
The Broken Hearts Gallery, 2020. Directed by Natalie Krinsky. Starring Geraldine Viswanathan, Dacre Montgomery, Molly Gordon, Phillipa Soo, Utkarsh Ambudkar, Arturo Castro, Suki Waterhouse and Bernadette Peters. SYNOPSIS: A heartbroken young woman opens up a gallery which allows people to part with mementos of past relationships in order to exorcise the pain of the break-up. […]
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