Alpha, 2025. Written and Directed by Julia Ducournau. Starring Mélissa Boros, Tahar Rahim, Golshifteh Farahani, and Emma Mackey. SYNOPSIS: Alpha, 13, is a troubled teenager who lives alone with her mother. Their world comes crashing down the day she comes home from school with a tattoo on her arm. Julia Ducournau’s astonishing debut Raw and […]
2025 BFI London Film Festival Review – Giant
Giant, 2025. Written and Directed by Rowan Athale. Starring Amir El-Masry, Pierce Brosnan, Ali Saleh, Ghaith Saleh, Katherine Dow Blyton, Olivia Barrowclough, Elika Ashoori, Austin Haynes, Rocco Haynes, Oliver Joseph Brooke, Arian Nik, Big Jake, Kelvin Ade, and Mehdi Mangoli. SYNOPSIS: Inspired by the real-life story of Prince Naseem “Naz” Hamed, a British-Yemeni boxer, and […]
2025 BFI London Film Festival Review – Left-Handed Girl
Left-Handed Girl, 2025. Directed by Shih-Ching Tsou. Starring Janel Tsai, Shih-Yuan Ma, Nina Ye, and Brando Huang. SYNOPSIS: A single mother and her two daughters relocate to Taipei to open a night market stall, each navigating the challenges of adapting to their new environment while striving to maintain family unity. Fresh off four Oscar wins […]
2025 BFI London Film Festival Review – Nouvelle Vague
Nouvelle Vague, 2025 Directed by Richard Linklater. Starring Guillaume Marbeck, Zoey Deutch, Aubry Dullin, Adrien Rouyard, Antoine Besson, Jodie Ruth-Forest, Bruno Dreyfürst, Benjamin Clery, Matthieu Penchinat, Pauline Belle, Paolo Luka-Noé and Jade Phan-Gia. SYNOPSIS: After writing for Cahiers du cinéma, young Godard decides making films is the best film criticism. He gets Beauregard to fund […]
Movie Review – Friendship (2024)
Friendship, 2025. Written and Directed by Andrew DeYoung. Starring Tim Robinson, Paul Rudd, Kate Mara, Jack Dylan Grazer, Rick Worthy, Whitmer Thomas, Daniel London, Eric Rahill, Jacob Ming-Trent, Billy Bryk, Meredith Garretson, Ari Dalbert, Josh Segarra, Raphael Sbarge, Omar Torres, Jason Veasey, Jon Glaser, Carmen Christopher, Mike J Mills, Alex Webb, Juri Henley-Cohn, Desi Waters, […]
Cinecittà Italian Doc Fest 2025 Review – GEN_
Gen_, 2025. Directed by Gianluca Matarrese. Starring Dr. Maurizio Bini. SYNOPSIS: A maverick doctor at a Milan hospital champions fertility treatments and gender transitions, defying both government restrictions and corporate interests in a quest to help patients realise their true selves. Empathy is an essential resource for any doctor to tap into. Having the compassion […]
Cinecittà Italian Doc Fest 2025 Review – Bestiaries, Herbaria, Lapidaries
Bestiaries, Herbaria, Lapidaries, 2025. Directed by Massimo D’Anolfi and Martina Perenti. SYNOPSIS: An epic ‘encyclopaedia’ documentary telling the human story through three non-human subjects, animals, plants and stones. Running over three and a half hours and broken into three distinct parts with a helpful intermission, this haunting philosophical documentary can safely be described as epic. […]
Cinecittà Italian Doc Fest 2025 Review – The Castle
The Castle Directed by Danny Biancardi, Stefano La Rosa, Virginia Nardelli. SYNOPSIS: Angelo, Mary and Rosy are three youngsters who live in a run-down Palermo neighbourhood. An abandoned nursery in the heart of the district becomes a haven where they can let their imaginations run wild and escape the pressures of everyday life. The creators […]
Raindance Film Festival 2025 Review – Saint Damian
Saint Damian (San Damiano), 2024. Directed by Alejandro Cifuentes, Gregori Sassoli SYNOPSIS: Damian leaves Poland for Rome in search of a new life. With just 50 euros on him, he climbs a tower overlooking the homeless community around Termini station and dreams of music, love and fulfilment. It is said that many of us are […]
Raindance Film Festival 2025 Review – Paternal Leave
Paternal Leave, 2025. Directed by Alissa Jung. Starring Juli Grabenhenrich, Luca Marinelli, and Arturo Gabbriellini. SYNOPSIS: A teenage girl travels to Italy’s northern coast in search of her biological father. After meeting, the two grapple with complex emotions and struggle to form a connection while staying true to their own identities. Alissa Jung’s debut film […]
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