Dan Barnes chats with Daisy Ridley about her new film Magpie… Directed by Sam Yates (The Hope Rooms, All’s Well That Ends Well, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Cymbeline), Magpie received its world premiere at the South by Southwest festival in March 2024. The film follows Anette (Daisy Ridley), an isolated wife and mother who finds herself […]
Movie Review – The Wasp (2024)
The Wasp, 2024. Directed by Guillem Morales. Starring Naomie Harris, Natalie Dormer, and Dominic Allburn. SYNOPSIS: Guillem Morales’ The Wasp, the screen adaptation of Morgan Lloyd Malcolm’s acclaimed play of the same name, sees depressed housewife Heather approach former childhood friend Carla with a proposition: she wants her to help kill her husband. Trapped in […]
Exclusive Interview – Naomie Harris and Natalie Dormer talk The Wasp
Dan Barnes chats with Naomie Harris and Natalie Dormer about their new film The Wasp… Directed by Guillem Morales (Back Room, The Uninvited Guest, Julia’s Eyes, Inside No. 9), The Wasp received its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival last week. Adapted from Morgan Lloyd Malcolm’s acclaimed play of the same name, the film […]
2020 BFI London Film Festival Review – Another Round
Another Round, 2020 Directed by Thomas Vinterberg. Starring Mads Mikkelsen, Thomas Bo Larsen, Lars Ranthe and Magnus Millang. SYNOPSIS: Four friends, all high school teachers, test a theory that they will improve their lives by maintaining a constant level of alcohol in their blood. ‘It’s not just a film about drinking. Our ambition was to […]
Movie Review – Wildfire (2020)
Wildfire, 2020. Directed by Cathy Brady. Starring Nika McGuigan, Nora-Jane Noone, Kate Dickie, Martin McCann and Olga Wehrly. SYNOPSIS: The story of two sisters who grew up on the fractious Irish border. When one of them, who has been missing, finally returns home, the intense bond with her sister is re-ignited. Together they unearth their […]
Movie Review – Herself (2020)
Herself, 2020 Directed by Phyllida Lloyd. Starring Clare Dunne, Harriet Walter, Conleth Hill, Molly McCann, Ruby Rose O’Hara, Ian Lloyd Anderson, Cathy Belton and Sarah Kinlen. SYNOPSIS: This is the story of young mother Sandra who escapes her abusive husband and fights back against a broken housing system. She sets out to build her own […]
2020 BFI London Film Festival Review – Never Gonna Snow Again
Never Gonna Snow Again, 2020. Directed by Małgorzata Szumowska and Michał Englert. Starring Alec Utgoff, Maja Ostaszewska, Agata Kulesza, Weronika Rosati, Katarzyna Figura, Andrzej Chyra and Łukasz Simlat. SYNOPSIS: Zhenia, a Russian-speaking immigrant from the East works as a masseur in Poland and becomes a guru-like figure in a wealthy gated community where his clients […]
2020 BFI London Film Festival Review – Honeymood
Honeymood, 2020. Directed by Talya Lavie. Starring Avigail Harari and Ran Danker. SYNOPSIS: Following a fight in their honeymoon suite on the night of their wedding, a bride and groom embark on a surreal urban odyssey through the streets of Jerusalem. Israeli filmmaker Talya Lavie’s new comedy is a disappointing and unfunny tale of a […]
2020 BFI London Film Festival Review – Kajillionaire
Kajillionaire, 2020. Directed by Miranda July. Starring Evan Rachel Wood, Gina Rodriguez, Richard Jenkins and Debra Winger. SYNOPSIS: A woman’s life is turned upside down when her criminal parents invite an outsider to join them on a major heist they’re planning. Miranda July’s new film is an acquired taste. But, while it’s far from the […]
2020 BFI London Film Festival Review – Stray
Stray, 2020. Directed by Elizabeth Lo. SYNOPSIS The world of Zeytin, a stray dog living life on the streets of Istanbul. In her feature debut, short filmmaker Elizabeth Lo (who also filmed, produced and edited the project herself) primarily follows Zeytin around the streets of Turkey’s busiest city. Occasionally accompanied by fellow strays Nazar and […]
