A look at the trailer for A United Kingdom, the opener at this year’s London Film Festival, might give the impression that its star, David Oyelowo, is in serious danger of being typecast. After his star-making turn as Martin Luther King in Selma, he’s delivering more inspiring speeches as future ruler of Botswana, Seretse Khama. […]
2022 BFI London Film Festival Review – Klokkenluider
Klokkenluider, 2022. Written & Directed by Neil Maskell. Starring Tom Burke, Jenna Coleman, Dominic Mallet, Sura Dohnke, Roger Evans, and Amit Shah. SYNOPSIS: A darkly comic, character-driven thriller following a government whistleblower and his forthright wife as they are sent to a remote house in Belgium. Joined by two close protection officers, they await the […]
Exclusive Interview – Director Tim MacKenzie-Smith on Getting It Back: The Story of Cymande
To coincide with its screening at the London Film Festival, Chris Connor got the chance to speak with the director of Getting It Back: The Story of Cymande, acclaimed documentary helmer Tim MacKenzie-Smith, who discussed the group’s influence, legacy, and why now was the time to tell their story. What are your first memories of […]
Movie Review – The Wonder (2022)
The Wonder, 2022. Directed by Sebastián Lelio Starring Florence Pugh, Tom Burke, Kíla Lord Cassidy, Niamh Algar, Elaine Cassidy, Ciarán Hinds, Toby Jones, Dermot Crowley, David Wilmot, Josie Walker, and Brían F. O’Byrne. SYNOPSIS: A tale of two strangers who transform each other’s lives, a psychological thriller, and a story of love pitted against evil. […]
2022 BFI London Film Festival Review – Women Talking
Women Talking, 2022. Written & Directed by Sarah Polley Starring Rooney Mara, Claire Foy, Jessie Buckley, Frances McDormand, Ben Whishaw, Judith Ivey, Sheila McCarthy. SYNOPSIS: In 2010, the women of an isolated religious community grapple with reconciling their reality with their faith. Based on the novel by Miriam Toews. Sarah Polley has had a long […]
2022 BFI London Film Festival Review – Decision to Leave
Decision to Leave, 2022. Directed by Park Chan-wook Starring Park Hae-il, Tang Wei, Go Kyung-Pyo, Jung Yi-seo, Jeong Min Park, Seo Hyun-woo, Teo Yoo, and Lee Jung-hyun SYNOPSIS: From a mountain peak in South Korea, a man plummets to his death. Did he jump, or was he pushed? When detective Hae-joon arrives on the scene, […]
2022 BFI London Film Festival Review – Getting It Back: The Story of Cymande
Getting It Back: The Story of Cymande, 2022. Directed by Tim MacKenzie-Smith. SYNOPSIS: They are the unsung heroes whose message of peace, love and funk sailed beyond Britain’s shores and helped shape music for five decades. Long after they stopped playing, the music played on, so they returned to play some more. Cymande were a […]
2022 BFI London Film Festival Review – Living
Living, 2022. Directed by Oliver Hermanus. Starring Bill Nighy, Aimee Lou Wood, Tom Burke, and Alex Sharp. SYNOPSIS: An English-language adaptation of the script of “Ikiru” (1952), set in London in the 1950s. Akira Kurosawa’s works have often lent themselves to Western reinterpretation, be it Seven Samurai and The Magnificent Seven, Yojimbo and A Fistful […]
2022 BFI London Film Festival Review – The Woman in the White Car
The Woman in the White Car, 2022. Directed by Christine Ko. Starring Ryeowon Jung, Jung-eun Lee, and Jung-min Kim. SYNOPSIS: When a kind-hearted smalltown cop (Jung-eun Lee) is summoned by the local hospital to deal with Do-kyung (Ryeowon Jung), who has arrived carrying the limp body of her sister, believed to have been stabbed in […]
2022 BFI London Film Festival Review – Causeway
Causeway, 2022. Directed by Lila Neugebauer. Starring Jennifer Lawrence, Brian Tyree Henry, Linda Emond, Jayne Houdyshell, Stephen McKinley Henderson and Frederick Weller. SYNOPSIS: A US soldier (Jennifer Lawrence) suffers a traumatic brain injury while fighting in Afghanistan and struggles to adjust to life back home. Jennifer Lawrence returns to the kind of small character-driven, sparsely […]
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