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 […]
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 […]
Sundance Film Festival 2019 Review – The Farewell
The Farewell, 2019. Directed by Lulu Wang. Starring Awkwafina, Tzi Ma, Diana Lin, Zhao Shuzhen, Lu Hong, Jiang Yongbo, Chen Han, Aoi Mizuhara, Chen Hanwei, and Li Xiang. SYNOPSIS: A Chinese family discover their grandmother has only a short while left to live and decide to keep her in the dark, scheduling a wedding to […]
Sundance 2019 Review – Fighting With My Family
Fighting With My Family, 2019. Directed by Stephen Merchant. Starring Florence Pugh, Lena Headey, Nick Frost, Jack Lowden, Vince Vaughn, and Dwayne Johnson. SYNOPSIS: Based on a true story, FIGHTING WITH MY FAMILY follows reformed gangster Ricky, wife Julia, daughter Paige and son Zak as they make a living wrestling together in tiny venues. When […]
Fantasia Film Festival 2018 Review – The Witch: Part 1. The Subversion
The Witch: Part 1. The Subversion, 2018. Directed by Park Hoon-jung. Starring Kim Da-mi, Cho Min-soo, Park Hee-soon, Choi Woo-shik. SYNOPSIS: A high school student with amnesia tries to uncover what has happened to her. All leading her into deeper troubles ultimately revealing a darkness she could not have imagined. Don’t let the blatant sequel […]
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