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2018 BFI London Film Festival Review – In Fabric

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In Fabric, 2018. Directed by Peter Strickland. Starring Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Hayley Squires, Fatma Mohamed, Gwendoline Christie, Steve Oram, Julian Barratt, Leo Bill, and Simon Mayonda. SYNOPSIS: Somewhere in the North of England, during the height of the Winter shopping sales, lonely divorcee Sheila (Marianne Jean-Baptiste) is sold a dress by a mysterious shop clerk (Fatma Mohamed), in preparation for her […]

2018 BFI London Film Festival Review – Suspiria

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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 – Destroyer

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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 […]

Movie Review – Wildlife (2018)

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Wildlife, 2018. Directed by Paul Dano. Starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Carey Mulligan, Ed Oxenbould, Bill Camp, and Zoe Margaret Colletti. SYNOPSIS: As a forest fire rages through rural America, Joe Brinson (Ed Oxenbould) must watch his parent’s relationship start to crumble, with his father (Jake Gyllenhaal) struggling to find work, and his mother (Carey Mulligan) becoming […]

Movie Review – The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018)

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The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, 2018. Directed by Joel and Ethan Coen. Starring Tim Blake Nelson, Liam Neeson, Brendan Gleeson, Tom Waits, Harry Melling, Zoe Kazan, James Franco, Bill Heck, Grainger Hines, Chelcie Ross, and Jonjo O’Neill. SYNOPSIS: Six stories make up Joel and Ethan Coen’s Western anthology epic, taking in everything from singing cowboys, gold […]

2018 BFI London Film Festival Review – Beautiful Boy

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Beautiful Boy, 2018. Directed by Felix Van Groeningen. Starring Steve Carell, Timothée Chalamet, Maura Tierney, Kaitlyn Dever, Amy Ryan, and Andre Royo. SYNOPSIS: Using the best-selling father and son memoirs of David (Steve Carell) and Nic Shiff (Timothée Chalamet), Beautiful Boy charts the traumatic experiences of a family dealing with a debilitating addiction that nobody really understands. Drug culture […]

2018 BFI London Film Festival Review – Utøya – July 22

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Utøya – July 22, 2018. Directed by Erik Poppe. Starring Andrea Berntzen, Aleksander Holmen, and Solveig Koløen Birkeland. SYNOPSIS: After detonating a bomb in a government building on 22 July 2011, far-right terrorist Anders Behring Breivik took his murderous attack to the heart of Norway: a  summer camp on Utøya island. With the victims unable to escape, […]

Movie Review – Widows (2018)

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Widows, 2018. Directed by Steve McQueen. Starring Viola Davis, Michelle Rodriguez, Elizabeth Debicki, Colin Farrell, Carrie Coon, Daniel Kaluuya, Liam Neeson, and Cynthia Erivo. SYNOPSIS: When a posthumous debt from her husband (Liam Neeson) lands at the feet of Veronica (Viola Davis), she decides to inherit so much more than a death sentence by planning a heist […]

2018 BFI London Film Festival Review – The Breaker Upperers

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The Breaker Upperers, 2018. Directed by Madeleine Sami and Jackie van Beek. Starring Madeleine Sami, Jackie van Beek, James Rolleston, Celia Pacquola, and Ana Scotney. SYNOPSIS: Two professional cynics, Jen (Jackie van Beek) and Mel (Madeleine Sami), run an agency where they offer their unique talents in breaking up couples so that the individual can move on […]

Movie Review – Bad Times at the El Royale (2018)

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Bad Times at the El Royale, 2018. Directed by Drew Goddard. Starring Jon Hamm, Dakota Johnson, Jeff Bridges, Lewis Pullman, Cynthia Erivo, Chris Hemsworth, and Cailee Spaeny. SYNOPSIS: At Lake Tahoe’s El Royale hotel, the paths of seven strangers converge at this derelict destination in the hope of escaping their past. Over the course of […]