Ricky Church reviews the penultimate episode of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power’s first season… It was the calm before the storm in the penultimate episode of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power season one as everyone took stock of their defeat and the changed lands. While a slower-paced […]
58th Chicago International Film Festival Review – A Compassionate Spy
A Compassionate Spy, 2022. Directed by Steve James. Featuring Theodore Hall and Joan Hall. SYNOPSIS: The incredible story of Manhattan Project scientist Ted Hall, who shared classified nuclear secrets with Russia. The latest effort from celebrated documentary filmmaker Steve James (Life Itself, Abacus), A Compassionate Spy, follows Ted Hall, responsible for physician work on The […]
2022 BFI London Film Festival Review – Getting It Back: The Story of Cymande
Getting It Back: The Story of Cymande, 2022. Directed by Tim MacKenzie-Smith. SYNOPSIS: They are the unsung heroes whose message of peace, love and funk sailed beyond Britain’s shores and helped shape music for five decades. Long after they stopped playing, the music played on, so they returned to play some more. Cymande were a […]
Movie Review – Take Back the Night (2021)
Take Back the Night, 2021. Directed by Gia Elliot. Starring Emma Fitzpatrick, Angela Gulner, Jennifer Lafleur, Sibongile Mlambo, and Jess Varley. SYNOPSIS: After being viciously attacked, a woman turns vigilante to try and find the monster that did it, all the while trying to justify her actions to doubting authorities. In Take Back the Night, […]
Dr. Phibes Rises Again (1972) – October Horrors 2022
Dr. Phibes Rises Again, 1972. Directed by Robert Fuest. Starring Vincent Price, Robert Quarry, Peter Jeffrey, Valli Camp, Fiona Lewis, Hugh Griffith and Peter Cushing. SYNOPSIS: Some time after his murderous campaign of vengeance against the doctors who failed to save his wife, the villainous Dr Phibes ventures to Egypt in the hopes of discovering […]
2022 BFI London Film Festival Review – Living
Living, 2022. Directed by Oliver Hermanus. Starring Bill Nighy, Aimee Lou Wood, Tom Burke, and Alex Sharp. SYNOPSIS: An English-language adaptation of the script of “Ikiru” (1952), set in London in the 1950s. Akira Kurosawa’s works have often lent themselves to Western reinterpretation, be it Seven Samurai and The Magnificent Seven, Yojimbo and A Fistful […]
The Innocents (1961) – October Horrors 2022
The Innocents, 1961. Directed by Jack Clayton. Starring Deborah Kerr, Peter Wyngarde, Meg Jenkins, Michael Redgrave, Pamela Franklin and Martin Stephens. SYNOPSIS: A woman is hired to become the new governess of a stately mansion, looking after the niece and nephew of a wealthy landowner. However, it soon becomes clear that the mansion and, indeed, […]
Movie Review – I Love My Dad (2022)
I Love My Dad, 2022. Written and Directed by James Morosini. Starring James Morosini, Patton Oswalt, Lil Rel Howery, Amy Landecker, Claudia Sulewski, Rachel Dratch, Sarah Helbringer, and Ricky Velez. SYNOPSIS: A hopelessly estranged father catfishes his son in an attempt to reconnect. Take yourself back to the days of middle school pre-public presentation anxiety. […]
The Night Eats the World (2018) – October Horrors 2022
The Night Eats the World, 2018. Directed by Dominque Rocher. Starring Anders Danielsen Lie, Golshifteh Farahani, Denis Lavant, Sigrid Bouaziz and David Kammenos. SYNOPSIS: The morning after a party, a young man awakens to find Paris overrun with zombies. The zombie genre is a decomposing corpse that has been done to death, promptly resurrected and […]
2022 BFI London Film Festival Review – The Woman in the White Car
The Woman in the White Car, 2022. Directed by Christine Ko. Starring Ryeowon Jung, Jung-eun Lee, and Jung-min Kim. SYNOPSIS: When a kind-hearted smalltown cop (Jung-eun Lee) is summoned by the local hospital to deal with Do-kyung (Ryeowon Jung), who has arrived carrying the limp body of her sister, believed to have been stabbed in […]
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