Little Monsters, 2019. Directed by Abe Forsythe. Starring Lupita Nyong’o, Josh Gad, Alexander England, Kat Stewart, Stephen Peacocke, Henry Nixon, Felix Williamson, Nadia Townsend, and Marshall Napier. SYNOPSIS: When perennial man-child and failed musician Dave (Alexander England) decides to use his nephew’s petting-zoo field-trip as a way of getting close to his teacher (Lupita Nyong’o), […]
Movie Review – Monos (2019)
Monos, 2019. Directed by Alejandro Landes. Starring Moisés Arias, Julianne Nicholson, Sofia Buenaventura, Karen Quintero, Julian Giraldo, Laura Castrillón, Deibi Rueda, Paul Cubides, Sneider Castro, Wilson Salazar, and Jorge Román. SYNOPSIS: On a faraway mountaintop, eight kids with guns watch over a hostage and a conscripted milk cow. Colombia’s official entry for the upcoming Academy […]
Movie Review – The Last Black Man in San Francisco (2019)
The Last Black Man in San Francisco, 2019. Directed by Joe Talbot. Starring Jimmie Fails, Jonathan Majors, Rob Morgan, Tichina Arnold, Mike Epps, Finn Wittrock, Danny Glover, Jamal Trulove, Willie Hen, and Jordan Gomes. SYNOPSIS: Against a backdrop of gentrification, poverty, and an environmental crisis, Jimmie (Jimmie Fails) fights to maintain his legacy, and find […]
2019 BFI London Film Festival Review – Just Mercy
Just Mercy, 2019. Directed by Destin Daniel Cretton Starring Michael B. Jordan, Jamie Foxx, Brie Larson, Rafe Spall, O’Shea Jackson Jr., Tim Blake Neslon, Rob Morgan, Darrell Britt-Gibson, and Kirk Bovill SYNOPSIS: Charting the embryonic stages of civil defence attorney Brian Stevenson’s (Michael B. Jordan) illustrious career, Just Mercy recalls the very first cases he […]
2019 BFI London Film Festival Review – System Crasher
System Crasher, 2019. Directed by Nora Fingscheidt. Starring Helena Zengel, Albrecht Schuch, and Gabriela Maria Schmeide. SYNOPSIS: On her wild quest for love, 9-year-old Benni’s untamed energy drives everyone around her to despair. The feature debut of writer-director Nora Fingscheidt dares to tackle a shockingly under-explored issue in cinema centered around troubled youths; uncontrollable anger, […]
October Horrors 2019 Day 5 – The Blair Witch Project (1999)
The Blair Witch Project, 1999. Directed by Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sanchez Starring Heather Donahue, Michael C. Williams and Joshua Leonard. SYNOPSIS: In 1994, a group of documentary film-makers ventured into the woods of the Black Hills in Maryland to investigate the mysterious local legend of the Blair Witch. They subsequently vanished leaving behind only […]
James Bond returns with first poster for No Time To Die
In celebration of Global James Bond Day, producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson have unveiled the first poster for No Time To Die, 007’s 25th official big screen adventure and Daniel Craig’s fifth and final outing as Ian Fleming’s super spy; check it out here… SEE ALSO: Daniel Craig wraps filming on 25th Bond […]
2019 BFI London Film Festival Review – The King
The King, 2019. Directed by David Michôd. Starring Timothée Chalamet, Joel Edgerton, Sean Harris, Robert Pattinson, Ben Mendelsohn, Dean-Charles Chapman, Tom Glynn-Carney, Lily-Rose Depp, Thomasin McKenzie, Andrew Havill, Edward Ashley and Tara Fitzgerald. SYNOPSIS: Hal, wayward prince and heir to the English throne, is crowned King Henry V after his tyrannical father dies. Now the […]
Daniel Craig wraps filming on 25th Bond movie No Time To Die
It’s certainly hasn’t had the smoothest of rides, what with director switch-ups, delays, constant rewrites, on set accidents and rumours of the production being “a well-polished shit show”, but the 25th James Bond movie No Time To Die is now officially in the can. As per the Daily Mail, the cast and crew celebrated the […]
2019 BFI London Film Festival Review – The Lighthouse
The Lighthouse, 2019. Directed by Robert Eggers. Starring Robert Pattinson, Willem Dafoe, and Valeriia Karaman. SYNOPSIS: The hypnotic and hallucinatory tale of two lighthouse keepers on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s. The Lighthouse is about as boldly entrancing a second feature as one could imagine from any filmmaker, let alone Robert […]
