Official Secrets, 2019. Directed by Gavin Hood. Starring Keira Knightley, Matt Smith, Matthew Goode, Ralph Fiennes, Rhys Ifans, Conleth Hill, MyAnna Buring, Jack Farthing, Katherine Kelly, Adam Bakri, and Tamsin Greig. SYNOPSIS: The true story of a British whistleblower who leaked information to the press about an illegal NSA spy operation designed to push the […]
2019 BFI London Film Festival Review – Deerskin
Deerskin, 2019 . Directed by Quentin Dupieux. Starring Jean Dujardin, Adèle Haenel, Albert Delpy, Pierre Gommé and Marie Bunel. SYNOPSIS: A man’s obsession with his designer deerskin jacket causes him to blow his life savings and turn to crime. Sometimes a film comes along which is simply impossible to pigeon-hole. It refuses to nestle into […]
2019 BFI London Film Festival Review – Hope Gap
Hope Gap, 2019. Directed by William Nicholson. Starring Bill Nighy, Annette Bening, Josh O’Connor, Aiysha Hart, Ryan McKen, Sally Rogers, Steven Pacey, Rose Keegan, and Derren Litten. SYNOPSIS: A couple’s visit with their son takes a dramatic turn when the father tells him he plans on leaving his mother. Hope Gap is a study of […]
2019 BFI London Film Festival Review – Bombay Rose
Bombay Rose, 2019. Directed by Gitanjali Rao. Starring Cyli Khare, Amit Deondi, Amardeep Jha, Makrand Deshpande, Gargi Shitole and Virendra Saxena. SYNOPSIS: Interlocking stories of people living in Mumbai, encompassing romance, grief and the world of crime. There has never been a better time to be a fan of animated cinema. The big guns of […]
2019 BFI London Film Festival Review – Scales
Scales, 2019. Directed by Shahad Ameen. Starring Baseema Hajjar, Yaqoub Alfarhan and Ashraf Barhom. SYNOPSIS: In an isolated island community, each family must sacrifice one daughter to the sea creatures who surround it. But one young girl has been spared that fate by her father, making her an outcast in the community. A few years […]
2019 BFI London Film Festival Review – Earthquake Bird
Earthquake Bird, 2019. Written and directed by Wash Westmoreland. Starring Alicia Vikander, Riley Keough, and Naoki Kobayashi. SYNOPSIS: A young woman living in Tokyo becomes the prime suspect in a horrific murder when her friend goes missing in the wake of a tumultuous love triangle. Acclaimed filmmaker Wash Westmoreland (Still Alice, Colette) tries his hand […]
2019 BFI London Film Festival Review – First Love
First Love, 2019. Directed by Takashi Miike. Starring Becky, Masataka Kubota, Nao Omori, Masaaki Uchino, Shota Sometani, Takehiro Miura, Sakurako Konishi, Jun Murakami, and Sansei Shiomi. SYNOPSIS: A young boxer and a call girl get caught up in a drug-smuggling scheme over the course of one night in Tokyo. The latest film from the industrious […]
2019 BFI London Film Festival Review – Burning Cane
Burning Cane, 2019. Directed by Phillip Youmans. Starring Wendell Pierce, Karen Kaia Livers, and Dominique McClellan. SYNOPSIS: Amongst the cane fields of rural Louisiana, an aging mother struggles between her religious convictions and the love of her son. Phillip Youmans delivers one of the most precocious feature debuts in recent memory with Burning Cane, a film […]
Movie Review – Rewind (2019)
Rewind, 2019. Directed by Sasha Neulinger. SYNOPSIS: A debut filmmaker recounts his childhood trauma that exposed a dark family secret. As much as it is a documentary of the most hard-hitting variety, Rewind is an exercise in extreme courage. For first-time filmmaker Sasha Neulinger, retracing the steps of a childhood marred by years of harrowing […]
2019 BFI London Film Festival Review — The Antenna
The Antenna, 2019. Directed by Orçun Behram. Starring Ihsan Önal, Gül Arici, Elif Cakman. SYNOPSIS: As an ominous midnight government bulletin draws nearer, a tower block and its inhabitants come under siege from a mysterious, deadly liquid seeping from the building’s antenna. A clunky mix-match of familiar genre tropes and far-from-subtle social commentary permeates Turkish […]
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