Time, 2020. Directed by Garrett Bradley. SYNOPSIS: A mother of six fights for the release of her husband, who is serving a 60-year prison sentence. 13th, Ava DuVernay’s Oscar-nominated, Emmy Award-winning documentary from 2016, begins with an alarming statistic: One out of four African-American males will serve prison time at one point or another in […]
2020 BFI London Film Festival Review – The Painter and the Thief
The Painter and the Thief, 2020. Directed by Benjamin Ree. SYNOPSIS: A Czech artist forms a surprising friendship with a Norwegian man who stole two of her paintings. For journalist-turned-documentary-filmmaker Benjamin Ree, the desire to make an art heist movie had been simmering away since the release of his acclaimed chess-champ doc Magnus in 2016. […]
Movie Review – Koko-di Koko-da (2019)
Koko-di Koko-da, 2019. Directed by Johannes Nyholm. Starring Leif Edlund, Ylva Gallon, Peter Belli, Katarina Jakobson, Morad Baloo Khatchadorian, Brandy Litmanen. SYNOPSIS: Three years after a devastating tragedy, a couple go camping in the woods to reconnect with one another. But, rather than reconciliation, what they find instead is something truly horrifying. Of the many […]
Movie Review – Get Duked! (2019)
Get Duked!, 2019. Written and directed by Ninian Doff. Starring Samuel Bottomley, Viraj Juneja, Rian Gordon, Lewis Gribben, Jonathan Aris, Kate Dickie, Kevin Guthrie, Alice Lowe, James Cosmo, Georgie Glen and Eddie Izzard. SYNOPSIS: A group of teenagers must evade mysterious hunters in the Scottish Highlands while trying to complete the Duke of Edinburgh Award. […]
Movie Review – Killer Raccoons! 2! Dark Christmas in the Dark (2020)
Killer Raccoons! 2! Dark Christmas in the Dark, 2020. Written and Directed by Travis Irvine. Starring Yang Miller, Evelyn Troutman, Mitch Rose, Ron Lynch, Tom Lyons and Ron Jeremy. SYNOPSIS: On Christmas Eve, a former student is released from a decade-long stint in prison and, eager to leave town, boards an express train bound for […]
Movie Review – Parasite: Black-And-White Edition (2020)
Parasite: Black-And-White Edition, 2020. Directed by Bong Joon-ho. Starring Song Kang-ho, Choi Woo-shik, Jang Hyae-jin, Park So-dam, Cho Yeo-jeong, Lee Sun-kyun, Jung Ziso and Lee Jung-eun. SYNOPSIS: A poor family living in a semi-basement apartment trick their way into the lavish home of a wealthy one by posing as various household workers. It feels like […]
Movie Review – Athlete A (2020)
Athlete A, 2020. Directed by Bonni Cohen & Jon Shenk. SYNOPSIS: An investigation by an Indianapolis newspaper unearths decades of sexual abuse in the women’s USA gymnastics programme, and the attempted cover up by its governing body. In the last decade, few things seem to have captured the mood of a generation driven by rectifying […]
Movie Review — 7500 (2019)
7500, 2019. Directed by Patrick Vollrath. Starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Omid Memar, Aylin Tezel, Carlo Kitzlinger, Murathan Muslu and Paul Wollin. SYNOPSIS: A Berlin-to-Paris flight is violently disrupted by a group of hijackers. In a film that depicts the mid-air mayhem of a fictional plane hijacking, it might come as a surprise that the word ‘terrorist’ […]
Movie Review – Citizens of the World (2019)
Citizens of the World, 2019. Directed by Gianni Di Gregorio. Starring Gianni Di Gregorio, Giorgio Colangeli and Ennio Fantastichini. SYNOPSIS: Three Italian pensioners pool their money in order to start a new life abroad. Skimming over the ‘Known For’ section on Gianni Di Gregorio’s IMDb page, one might easily be fooled. Occupying top billing is […]
Movie Review – County Lines (2019)
County Lines, 2019. Directed by Henry Blake. Starring Conrad Khan, Ashley Madekwe, Harris Dickinson, Tabitha Milne-Price, Marcus Rutherford, Carlyss Peer and Johanna Stanton. SYNOPSIS: A teenage boy is groomed into becoming part of a dangerous, nationwide drug network. “Do you know what acceptable loss is?” asks a social worker during the opening minutes of writer/director […]
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