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 […]
Movie Review – Eternal Beauty (2019)
Eternal Beauty, 2019. Directed by Craig Roberts. Starring Sally Hawkins, David Thewlis, Billie Piper, Alice Lowe, Penelope Wilton, Robert Pugh, and Morfydd Clark. SYNOPSIS: After Jane (Sally Hawkins) falls into a state of despair over her schizophrenia, she encounters new sources of love and life with surprising results. Still in his twenties, actor-turned-filmmaker Craig Roberts […]
Movie Review – Rocks (2019)
Rocks, 2019. Directed by Sarah Gavron. Starring Bukky Bakray, Kosar Ali, D’angelou Osei Kissiedu, Shaneigha-Monik Greyson, Ruby Stokes, Tawheda Begum, Afi Okaidja, Anastasia Dymitrow, Sarah Niles, Layo-Christina Akinlude, and Sharon D. Clarke. SYNOPSIS: A young teenage girl finds herself struggling to take care of herself and her younger brother after being abandoned by their single […]
Movie Review – Hard Kill (2020)
Hard Kill, 2020 Directed by Matt Eskandari. Starring Jesse Metcalfe, Bruce Willis, Natalie Eva Marie, Lala Kent, Texas Battle, Sergio Rizzuto, Swen Temmel, and Tyler Jon Olson. SYNOPSIS: The work of billionaire tech CEO Donovan Chalmers (Willis) is so valuable that he hires mercenaries to protect it, and a terrorist group kidnaps his daughter just […]