Body of Water, 2020.Written and directed by Lucy Brydon. Starring Siân Brooke, Amanda Burton, Fabienne Piolini-Castle, Nick Blood and Kazia Pelka.SYNOPSIS:A mother suffering from anorexia struggles to repair the relationship with her estranged teenage daughter.The poignancy of writer/director Lucy Brydon’s debut feature unfurls with a potent, twofold timeliness. Body of Water, a taut, quietly powerful […]
Jai Courtney talks The Suicide Squad and The Flash
During an interview with Collider to promote his new film Honest Thief, actor Jai Courtney has been speaking about his impending DC Extended Universe return as Captain Boomerang in James Gunn’s The Suicide Squad, and how the film will differ from his first outing in David Ayer’s 2016 supervillain team-up Suicide Squad. “It’s a big-ass […]
October Horrors 2020 – Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (1992)
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me, 1992.Directed by David Lynch. Starring Sheryl Lee, Moira Kelly, David Bowie, Chris Issak, Harry Dean Stanton, Ray Wise and Kyle MacLachlan.SYNOPSIS:In the town of Twin Peaks, prom queen Laura Palmer struggles through a troubled life with sex and drugs, all the while attempting to uncover the identity of the […]
2020 BFI London Film Festival – Bad Tales
Bad Tales, 2020.Directed by the D’Innocenzo brothers. Starring Elio Germano, Max Malatesta, Gabriel Montesi, Cristina Pellegrino, Giulia Melillo, Justin Korovkin, Giulietta Rebeggiani, Tommaso Di Cola, Ileana D’Ambra and Laura Borgioli.SYNOPSIS:A series of families living in or close to Rome intersect as the actions of parents exert a corrupting influence on their children.If parents are messed […]
Movie Review – Cicada (2020)
Cicada, 2020.Directed by Matt Fifer and Kieran Mulcare. Starring Matt Fifer, Sheldon D. Brown, Jazmin Grace Grimaldi, Sandra Bauleo, Michael Potts, Jason Greene and Cobie Smulders.SYNOPSIS:A bisexual man swaps casual sex for commitment when he finally meets someone with whom he believes he can truly be himself.If gay people are under-represented on the big screen […]
Movie Review – Ultraviolence (2020)
Ultraviolence, 2020.Directed by Ken Fero.SYNOPSIS:A very timely and powerful look at cases of deaths in police custody in the UK.In 2001, documentary filmmaker Ken Fero unveiled his ground-breaking, controversial movie Injustice, which told numerous stories of deaths in police custody in Britain. Almost two decades later, he’s returning to the subject with spiritual sequel Ultraviolence, […]
Deon Taylor to direct The Housemaid remake Grave Hill
CJ Entertainment has announced that Deon Taylor (The Intruder, Black and Blue) is set to direct the Gothic horror-thriller Grave Hill, an English language remake of director Derek Nguyen’s 2016 Vietnamese horror The Housemaid.“Having the opportunity to work with CJ Entertainment is absolutely a dream come true,” said Director Deon Taylor. “The collaboration they created […]
Paul Bettany and Sophia Lillis star in trailer for Uncle Frank
Amazon Prime Video has released a poster and trailer for writer-director Alan Ball’s 70s-set drama Uncle Frank which stars Sophia Lillis as Beth, a young woman who leaves her rural town to study at New York University where her beloved uncle Frank (Paul Bettany) is a literature professor, she soon discovers he is gay and […]
The Batman set photos feature Superman and Wonder Woman… sort of
Okay, so it’s not quite the next incarnation of the Justice League, but the latest spy photos and video from the set of The Batman have surfaced online and feature a couple of very familiar faces (or costumes, at least) from the DC Universe in Superman and Wonder Woman!As you can see below, the photos […]
Movie Review – Bad Hair (2020)
Bad Hair, 2020.Written and Directed by Justin Simien. Starring Elle Lorraine, Vanessa Williams, Jay Pharoah, Lena Waithe, Blair Underwood, Laverne Cox, Yaani King Mondschein, Michelle Hurd, Judith Scott, Robin Thede, Ashley Blaine Featherson, Steve Zissis, MC Lyte, Zaria Kelley, Corinne Massiah, Kelly Rowland, James Van Der Beek, Usher Raymond, Chanté Adams, Moses Storm, Jon Gabrus, […]
