Hard Truths, 2024. Written and directed by Mike Leigh. Starring Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Michele Austin, Sophia Brown, Ani Nelson, and David Webber. SYNOPSIS: Set in London, Leigh’s new film explores family relationships in the post-pandemic world. Mike Leigh has been one of the most pioneering voices in the UK film industry since the 1970s with the […]
2024 BFI London Film Festival Review – One to One: John & Yoko
One to One: John & Yoko, 2024. Directed by Kevin Macdonald. Featuring John Lennon & Yoko Ono. SYNOPSIS: Set in 1972 New York, this documentary explores John and Yoko’s world amid a turbulent era. Centered on the One to One charity concert for special needs children, it features unseen archives, home movies, and restored footage. […]
2024 BFI London Film Festival Review – Flow
Flow, 2024. Directed by Gints Zilbalodis. SYNOPSIS: Cat is a solitary animal, but as its home is devastated by a great flood, he finds refuge on a boat populated by various species, and will have to team up with them despite their differences. Latvian Animator Gints Zilbalodis made a mark with his previous film Away […]
60th Chicago International Film Festival Review – When the Light Breaks
When the Light Breaks, 2024. Written and Directed by Rúnar Rúnarsson. Starring Elín Hall, Mikael Kaaber, Katla Njálsdóttir, Ágúst Örn B. Wigum, Gunnar Hrafn Kristjánsdóttir, and Baldur Einarsson. SYNOPSIS: When the light breaks on a long summer’s day in Iceland. From one sunset to another, Una, a young art student, encounters love, friendship, sorrow and beauty. […]
BFI London Film Festival 2024 Review – The Wild Robot
The Wild Robot, 2024. Written and Directed by Chris Sanders. Featuring the voice talents of Lupita Nyong’o, Pedro Pascal, Kit Connor, Bill Nighy, Stephanie Hsu, Mark Hamill, Catherine O’Hara, Ving Rhames, Matt Berry, Boone Storm, Alexandra Novelle, Raphael Alejandro, Paul-Mikél Williams, and Eddie Park. SYNOPSIS: After a shipwreck, an intelligent robot called Roz is stranded […]
BFI London Film Festival 2024 Review – Memoir of a Snail
Memoir of a Snail, 2024. Directed by Adam Elliot. Featuring the voice talents of Sarah Snook, Kodi-Smit Mcphee, and Jacki Weaver. SYNOPSIS: A bittersweet memoir of a melancholic woman called Grace Pudel – a hoarder of snails, romance novels, and guinea-pigs. Australian stop motion director, Adam Elliot has proven with the likes of Mary and […]
2024 BFI London Film Festival Review – All of You
All of You, 2024. Directed by William Bridges. Starring Brett Goldstein, Imogen Poots, Zawe Ashton, and Steven Cree. SYNOPSIS: Brett Goldstein and Imogen Poots star in a stirring near-futuristic romance as best friends who harbor an unspoken love for one another even after a test matches one of them up with their supposed soulmate. Brett […]
Glasgow Film Festival 2024 Review – Black Dog
Black Dog, 2023. Directed by George Jaques. Starring Jamie Flatters, Keenan Munn-Francis, Nicholas Pinnock, Paul Kaye, Hattie Morahan, and Ruby Stokes. SYNOPSIS: Two teenage boys from very different London backgrounds embark on a road trip North together. As they start to open up about their pasts, the boys learn they have far more in common […]
2024 SXSW Film Festival Review – Desert Road
Desert Road, 2024. Written and Directed by Shannon Triplett. Starring Kristine Froseth, Frances Fisher, Beau Bridges, Ryan Hurst, D.B. Woodside, Max Mattern, Rachel Dratch, and Edwin Garcia II. SYNOPSIS: A young woman crashes her car and walks down the road seeking help, only to find that she ends up back at her car no matter […]
Glasgow Film Festival 2024 Review – The Burning Season
The Burning Season, 2023. Directed by Sean Garrity. Starring Jonas Chernick, Sara Canning, Joe Pingue, and Tanisha Thammavongsa. SYNOPSIS: Alena and her husband spend a summer up at Luna Lake Resort. JB runs the place. He and Alena begin a dangerous and passionate secret affair. Summers only. That’s the rule. Until they break it. A […]
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