When Sony Pictures debuted the first trailer for Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City, it’s fair to say that the reaction split viewers down the middle, with most commenting on the strange choice of music. Well now they’ve released an international trailer for the new R-rated action horror reboot based on the iconic video game […]
Timothee Chalamet unwraps first photo of Wonka
Timothee Chalamet took to social media to give fans their look at the actor’s take on the iconic Willy Wonka. On Sunday, Chalamet posted the first look image at Wonka, a new prequel film from Paul King and Warner Bros. In the post, Chalamet captioned the photo with “The suspense is terrible, I hope it […]
2021 BFI London Film Festival Review – Encounter
Encounter, 2021. Directed by Michael Pearce. Starring Riz Ahmed, Octavia Spencer, Rory Cochrane, Janina Gavankar, Lucian-River Chauhan, and Aditya Geddada. SYNOPSIS: Two brothers embark on a journey with their father, who is trying to protect them from an alien threat. Michael Pearce burst onto the scene with his acclaimed 2017 debut Beast. His follow-up film, […]
2021 BFI London Film Festival Review – La Mif
La Mif, 2021. Written and directed by Fred Baillif. Starring Claudia Grob, Amélie Tonsi, Anaïs Uldry, Amandine Golay, Kassia Da Costa, Joyce Ndayisenga, Charlie Areddy, and Sara Tulu. SYNOPSIS: A group of teenage girls have been placed in a residential care home with social workers. This forced “family” experience creates unexpected tensions and intimacies. An […]
2021 BFI London Film Festival Review – Hinterland
Hinterland, 2021. Co-written and directed by Stefan Ruzowitzky. Starring Murathan Muslu and Liv Lisa Fries. SYNOPSIS: When an ex-prisoner of the Great War returns home and finds his comrades brutally murdered, he decides to bring the serial killer to justice. In 2007, Stefan Ruzowitzky’s World War II drama The Counterfeiters won the Best International Feature Oscar, […]
Movie Review – Freeland (2021)
Freeland, 2021. Written and Directed by Mario Furloni and Kate McLean. Starring Krisha Fairchild, Frank Mosley, Lily Gladstone, John Craven, Cameron James Matthews, and Michelle Maxson. SYNOPSIS: An aging pot farmer finds her world shattered as she races to bring in what could be her final harvest. At face value, Freeland depicts a series of […]
BFI London Film Festival 2021 Review – The Odd-Job Men
The Odd-Job Men, 2021. Co-written and directed by Neus Ballús. Starring Mohamed Mellali, Valero Escolar, and Pep Sarrà. SYNOPSIS: A peculiar team of three handymen has to face a series of eccentric clients. Their everyday job becomes a surrealist and exhilarating experience. The latest venture from Catalan filmmaker Neus Ballús (The Plague) probably won’t end […]
57th Chicago International Film Festival Capsule Review – The French Dispatch
The French Dispatch, 2021. Written and Directed by Wes Anderson. Starring Bill Murray, Benicio del Toro, Frances McDormand, Jeffrey Wright, Adrien Brody, Tilda Swinton, Owen Wilson, Timothée Chalamet, Léa Seydoux, Mathieu Amalric, Lyna Khoudri, Steve Park, Liev Schreiber, Elisabeth Moss, Edward Norton, Willem Dafoe, Lois Smith, Saoirse Ronan, Christoph Waltz, Cécile de France, Guillaume Gallienne, […]
2021 BFI London Film Festival Review – The Hand of God
The Hand of God, 2021. Directed by Paolo Sorrentino. Starring Filippo Scotti, Toni Servillo, Teresa Saponangelo, Marlon Joubert, Luisa Ranieri, Renato Carpentieri, Massimiliano Gallo, Betty Pedrazzi, Biagio Manna and Ciro Capano. SYNOPSIS: This story of love, loss and family feuds is set in Naples with Fabietto (Filippo Scotti) at the epicentre. His father (Toni Servillo) […]
October Horrors 2021 – Scanners (1981)
Scanners, 1981. Directed by David Cronenberg Starring Stephen Lack, Jennifer O’Neil, Patrick McGoohan, Lawrence Dane and Michael Ironside. SYNOPSIS: A man with extraordinary psychic powers is recruited by a secretive agency to hunt down others with powers similar to his own. Mind readers, mediums and mystics, the world is full of people claiming to possess […]
