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 their lives. For many […]
Movie Review – Farewell Amor (2020)
Farewell Amor, 2020.Directed by Ekwa Msangi. Starring Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine, Zainab Jah, Jayme Lawson, Nana Mensah, Marcus Scribner and Joie Lee.SYNOPSIS:Seventeen years after he moved from Angola to New York City, a man is joined by his wife and daughter, only to discover that all three of them have changed dramatically since they were […]
2020 BFI London Film Festival Review – Undine
Undine, 2020.Written and directed by Christian Petzold. Starring Paula Beer, Franz Rogowski, and Maryam Zaree.SYNOPSIS:Undine works as an historian lecturing on Berlin’s urban development. But when the man she loves leaves her, the ancient myth catches up with her. Undine has to kill the man who betrays her and return to the water.Christian Petzold (Barbara, Transit) […]
Movie Review – Shirley (2020)
Shirley, 2020.Directed by Josephine Decker.Starring Elisabeth Moss, Odessa Young, Michael Stuhlbarg, Logan Lerman, Victoria Pedretti, Robert Wuhl, Paul O’Brien, Orlagh Cassidy, Allen McCullough, Bisserat Tseggai and Edward O’Blenis.SYNOPSIS:A famous horror writer finds inspiration for her next book after she and her husband take in a young couple.A charged dynamic propels Shirley, a thriller which has […]
2020 BFI London Film Festival Review – Wildfire
Wildfire, 2020.Written and directed by Cathy Brady. Starring Nora Jane Noone, Nika McGuigan, Kate Dickie, and Martin McCann.SYNOPSIS:The story of two sisters who grew up on the fractious Irish border. When one of them, who has been missing, finally returns home, the intense bond with her sister is re-ignited. Together they unearth their mother’s past, but […]
2020 BFI London Film Festival Review – I Am Samuel
I Am Samuel, 2020.Directed by Pete Murimi.SYNOPSIS:A gay couple in Kenya deal with the fact their relationship is illegal, as well as their disapproving families.“This is Alex. I am Sammy. Alex is the love of my life.” So opens Kenyan documentary I Am Samuel, without a “can I make it any more obvious?” for the […]
2020 BFI London Film Festival Review – Genus Pan
Genus Pan, 2020.Written and directed by Lav Diaz. Starring Nanding Josef, Bart Guingona, and Don Melvin Boongaling.SYNOPSIS:A look at how much human beings are like animals.Lav Diaz’s (Norte, the End of History) new 157-minute film will likely seem like a positively restrained effort to his followers, given that it isn’t uncommon for his works to run […]
2020 BFI London Film Festival Review – Supernova
Supernova, 2020.Directed by Harry Macqueen. Starring Colin Firth and Stanley Tucci.SYNOPSIS:Sam and Tusker are traveling across England in their old RV to visit friends, family, and places from their past. Since Tusker was diagnosed with dementia two years ago, their time together is the most important thing they have.In these times of palpable global anxiety, nobody […]
Movie Review – Relic (2020)
Relic, 2020.Directed by Natalie Erika James. Starring Robyn Nevin, Emily Mortimer, Bella Heathcote, Chris Bunton, Steve Rodgers, Catherine Glavicic, Jeremy Stanford, and Christina O’Neill.SYNOPSIS:When Kay (Emily Mortimer) and her daughter Sam (Bella Heathcote) visit the home of their grandmother (Robyn Nevin), her strange behavior starts to cause things to go bump in the night.Horror is […]
2020 BFI London Film Festival Review – Never Gonna Snow Again
Never Gonna Snow Again, 2020.Directed by Małgorzata Szumowska and Michał Englert. Starring Alec Utgoff, Maja Ostaszewska, Agata Kulesza, Weronika Rosati, Katarzyna Figura, Andrzej Chyra and Łukasz Simlat.SYNOPSIS:Zhenia, a Russian-speaking immigrant from the East works as a masseur in Poland and becomes a guru-like figure in a wealthy gated community where his clients live.Polish filmmaker Małgorzata […]
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