Herself, 2020.Directed by Phyllida Lloyd. Starring Clare Dunne, Harriet Walter, and Conleth Hill.SYNOPSIS:Young mother Sandra escapes her abusive husband and fights back against a broken housing system. She sets out to build her own home and in the process rebuilds her life and rediscovers herself.Director Phyllida Lloyd (Mamma Mia!, The Iron Lady) eschews the splashy […]
2020 BFI London Film Festival Review – 180 Degree Rule
180 Degree Rule, 2020.Written and directed by Farnoosh Samadi. Starring Sahar Dolatshahi, Pejman Jamshidi, and Hassan Pourshirazi.SYNOPSIS:A school teacher from Tehran is preparing to attend a wedding in northern Iran. When her husband suddenly forbids her to go, she makes a choice that will place her on a painful path to atonement.Whether Farnoosh Samadi’s directorial […]
2020 BFI London Film Festival Review – Farewell Amor
Farewell Amor, 2020.Written and directed by Ekwa Msangi. Starring Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine, Zainab Jah, and Jayme Lawson.SYNOPSIS:Reunited after 17 years, an Angolan immigrant is joined in the U.S. by his wife and daughter. Now strangers sharing a one-bedroom apartment, they discover a shared love of dance that may help them overcome the distance between […]
Movie Review – The Forty-Year-Old Version (2020)
The Forty-Year-Old Version, 2020.Written and Directed by Radha Blank Starring Radha Blank, Peter Kim, Oswin Benjamin, Imani Lewis, Reed Birney and Walker White.SYNOPSIS:A New York playwright (Radha Blank) is in search of an elusive success before she hits forty. Teaching theatre classes during the day and binge watching television shows at night, she finds inspiration […]
Joe Manganiello claims to be an interdimensional superhero in Archenemy trailer
RJLE Films has released a new poster and trailer for Adam Egypt Mortimer’s upcoming action thriller Archenemy. The feature stars Joe Manganiello as Max Fist, a man who claims to have fell through to time and space from another dimension, and finds himself stripped of his powers on Earth; take a look here…Max Fist (Manganiello) […]
October Horrors 2020 – Beetlejuice (1988)
Beetlejuice, 1988.Directed by Tim Burton. Starring Alec Baldwin, Geena Davis, Winona Ryder, Catherine O’Hara, Jeffrey Jones and Michael Keaton.SYNOPSIS:After dying in a car accident, Adam and Barbara are horrified by the new obnoxious residents moving into their former home. Eager to rid their house of the new tenants, Adam and Barbara are brought into contact […]
Malin Akerman and Bella Thorne join a female fight club in Chick Fight trailer
A trailer, poster and images have been released for director Paul Leyden’s upcoming action comedy Chick Fight which stars Malin Akerman as Anna, a woman down on her luck until she is introduced to an all-female fight club.Joining Akerman in the cast of Chick Fight are Bella Thorne, Alec Baldwin, Dulcé Sloan, Kevin Connolly, Fortune […]
2020 BFI London Film Festival – Shirley
Shirley, 2020.Directed by Josephine Decker. Starring Elisabeth Moss, Odessa Young, Michael Stuhlbarg, Victoria Pedretti, Robert Wuhl, and Logan Lerman.SYNOPSIS:When a young couple take up residence in the home of a reclusive horror writer (Elisabeth Moss), a symbiotic relationship begins which sparks inspiration and infatuation.Half glimpsed through a crowd of people transfixed by her anecdotes and […]
Luke Hemsworth would love to be the next Wolverine
Luke Hemsworth, Westworld star, has revealed that he would love to be the next actor to play Wolverine.Sooner or later, Marvel is going to have start looking for a new actor to play Wolverine. Hugh Jackman has finished his time in the role after Logan and the character is bound to make his MCU debut […]
2020 BFI London Film Festival Review – Relic
Relic, 2020.Directed by Natalie Erika James. Starring Robyn Nevin, Emily Mortimer, Bella Heathcote, Chris Bunton, Steve Rodgers, Catherine Glavicic, Jeremy Stanford, and Christina O’Neill.SYNOPSIS:A daughter, mother, and grandmother are haunted by a manifestation of dementia that consumes their family’s home.Ari Aster’s Hereditary recently proved the enormous artistic potential of horror which commits as hard to painful […]
