Ask Dr Ruth, 2019. Directed by Ryan White. Starring Dr Ruth Westheimer, Miriam Westheimer, Joel Westheimer, Leora Westheimer and Pierre Lehu. SYNOPSIS: The story of TV sex therapist Dr Ruth Westheimer, who is still blowing the minds of Americans with her frank discussions of sexuality at the age of 90. The opening scene of Ask […]
Sundance London 2019 Review – Apollo 11
Apollo 11, 2019. Directed by Todd Douglas Miller. Starring Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins. SYNOPSIS: A documentary that brings to life a selection of archive footage, including some that has never been seen before, to explore the 1969 mission to put men on the moon. Coming less than a year after Damien Chazelle’s […]
Sundance London 2019 Review – Animals
Animals, 2019. Directed by Sophie Hyde Starring Holliday Grainger, Alia Shawkat, Fra Fee, Dermot Murphy and Amy Molloy. SYNOPSIS: Resisting the building urge to grow up, 30 year old Laura rockets between her old party animal lifestyle and her newly found, more mature, love affair. Laura and her flatmate Tyler live from one night out […]
Chicago Critics Film Festival 2019 Capsule Review – Wild Rose (2019)
As strange as a Glasgow woman wanting to reach country singer superstardom in Nashville (probably the city most synonymous with the genre of music), Wild Rose is engrossing for many reasons beyond seeking fame. It’s about finding personal fulfillment while doing right by children as a mother (a mother before the age of 18 no […]
Blinded by the Light, Yesterday, and more feature in stacked CCFF 2019 lineup
One of the great opportunities of covering film within Chicago is the annual Chicago Critics Film Festival key members of the association organize, and although this is only my third year covering it, I can safely say the programming becomes more tantalizing every year. This lineup more than any other contains the strongest mix of […]
SXSW 2019 Review – The Peanut Butter Falcon
The Peanut Butter Falcon, 2019. Directed by Tyler Nilson and Mike Schwartz. Starring Zack Gottsagen, Shia LaBeouf, Dakota Johnson, Bruce Dern, John Hawkes, Jon Bernthal, Thomas Haden Church, Yelawolf, Jake Roberts, and Mick Foley. SYNOPSIS: A man with Down syndrome and a passion for wrestling escapes from a nursing home and joins a man on […]
SXSW 2019 Review – Stuber
Stuber, 2019. Directed by Michael Dowse. Starring Dave Bautista, Kumail Nanjiani, Karen Gillan, Betty Gilpin, Iko Uwais, Mira Sorvino and Natalie Morales. SYNOPSIS: A detective recruits his Uber driver into an unexpected night of adventure. It is not a great sign where the director and stars of your film have to repeat that the print […]
2019 Glasgow Film Festival Review – Beats
Beats, 2019. Directed by Brian Welsh. Starring Cristian Ortega, Lorn Macdonald, Laura Fraser and Brian Ferguson. SYNOPSIS: It’s Scotland, 1994. Two young friends in West Lothian with a love for techno head for one last night together, before life sends them their separate ways. For all its horrific, stillborn visage and unforgiving portrait of drug culture, Trainspotting […]
Glasgow Film Festival 2019 Review – Benjamin
Benjamin, 2019. Directed by Simon Amstell. Starring Colin Morgan, Phénix Brossard, Joel Fry, Anna Chancellor and Jack Rowan. SYNOPSIS: A young, aggressively anxious filmmaker navigates his way through a burgeoning relationship as he battles with his own personality. Films are often segregated by their sexual orientation. Look at Netflix and Sky Movies, you can categorise […]
Glasgow Film Festival 2019 Review – Ray & Liz
Ray & Liz, 2018. Directed by Richard Billingham. Starring Ella Smith, Justin Salinger, Patrick Romer, and Tony Way. SYNOPSIS: Just outside of Birmingham, Ray and Liz struggle to survive and raise their sons, including future photographer Richard Billingham. Richard and his brother Dean do all they can to fend for themselves, despite their situational poverty […]
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