The Front Runner, 2018. Directed by Jason Reitman. Starring Hugh Jackman, Vera Farmiga, J.K. Simmons, Kaitlyn Dever, Alfred Molina, Toby Huss, Kevin Pollak, Molly Ephraim, Sara Paxton, Jenna Kanell, Ari Graynor, Courtney Ford, Bill Burr, Chris Coy, Mike Judge and Steve Zissis. SYNOPSIS: American Senator Gary Hart’s presidential campaign in 1988 is derailed when he’s […]
2018 BFI London Film Festival Review – The Image Book
The Image Book (Le Livre d’image), 2018. Directed by Jean-Luc Godard. SYNOPSIS: Using a variety of voiceovers, Jean-Luc Godard guides the audience through a truly unique film – a fabric of clips stitched together, telling a story in five unrelated chapters. Godard’s mission, it seems, is to tackle the products of cinema by deconstructing its […]
2018 BFI London Film Festival Review – Duplicate
Duplicate, 2018. Directed by Bill Oliver. Starring Ansel Elgort, Patricia Clarkson, Suki Waterhouse, Matt Bomer and Douglas Hodge. SYNOPSIS: Jonathan leaves the office everyday at noon. When he gets home, he goes to sleep. Every morning he wakes up and there is a breakfast prepared for him along with a video telling him about the […]
Movie Review – Happy New Year, Colin Burstead (2018)
Happy New Year, Colin Burstead, 2018. Directed by Ben Wheatley. Starring Neil Maskell, Hayley Squires, Sam Riley, Charles Dance and Joe Cole. SYNOPSIS: Colin hires a lavish country manor for his extended family to celebrate New Year. Unfortunately for Colin his position of power in the family is under serious threat from the arrival of his […]
2018 BFI London Film Festival Review – Happy as Lazzaro
Happy as Lazzaro, 2018. Directed by Alice Rohrwacher. Starring Adriano Tardiolo, Sergi Lopez and Alba Rohrwacher. SYNOPSIS: The tale of a meeting between Lazzaro, a young peasant so good that he is often mistaken for simple-minded, and Tancredi, a young nobleman cursed by his imagination. Life in their isolated pastoral village Inviolata is dominated by the […]
2018 BFI London Film Festival Review – Bisbee ’17
Bisbee ’17, 2018. Directed by Robert Greene. SYNOPSIS: An old mining town on the Arizona-Mexico border finally reckons with its darkest day: the deportation of 1200 immigrant miners exactly 100 years ago. Locals collaborate to stage recreations of their controversial past. Robert Greene (Kate Plays Christine) serves up a powerful jolt to the conscience with this […]
2018 BFI London Film Festival Review – The Man Who Killed Don Quixote
The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, 2018. Directed by Terry Gilliam. Starring Adam Driver, Jonathan Pryce, Stellan Skarsgård, Olga Kurylenko, and Joana Ribeiro. SYNOPSIS: Toby, a disillusioned advertising executive, becomes pulled into a world of time jumping fantasy when a Spanish cobbler believes him to be Sancho Panza. He gradually becomes unable to tell dreams from […]
2018 BFI London Film Festival Review – Suspiria
Suspiria, 2018. Directed by Luca Guadagnino. Starring Dakota Johnson, Tilda Swinton, Doris Hick, Angela Winkler, Mia Goth, Elena Fokina, and Chloë Grace Moretz. SYNOPSIS: Against the backdrop of political turmoil in 70s Berlin, a world renowned dance company can be found within a stones throw from the wall. It’s run by the notorious Madame Blanc (Tilda Swinton), […]
2018 BFI London Film Festival Review – The Old Man and the Gun
The Old Man and the Gun, 2018. Directed by David Lowery. Starring Robert Redford, Sissy Spacek, Casey Affleck, Danny Glover, Tom Waits and Tika Sumpter. SYNOPSIS: Forrest Tucker is a bank robber. An elderly one and a gentleman. He’s spent plenty of time in prison because of his bad habit but he can’t give it […]
2018 BFI London Film Festival Review – Destroyer
Destroyer, 2018. Directed by Karyn Kusama. Starring Nicole Kidman, Sebastian Stan, Toby Kebbell, Tatiana Maslany, Scoot McNairy, Bradley Whitford, and James Jordan. SYNOPSIS: Whilst a young LAPD detective, Erin Bell (Nicole Kidman) was sent undercover with her partner Chris (Sebastian Stan) to infiltrate a crime gang headed up by the messianic Silas (Toby Kebbell). Almost […]
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