The Reason I Jump, 2020. Directed by Jerry Rothwell. Starring Jordan O’Donegan. SYNOPSIS: Based on the book by Naoki Higashida, this immersive film explores the experiences of non-speaking autistic people around the world. First published in Japan in 2007 and translated into English in 2013, “The Reason I Jump” was a groundbreaking novel written by 13-year-old […]
2020 BFI London Film Festival Review – Time
Time, 2020. Directed by Garrett Bradley. Starring Sibil Fox Richardson and Robert G. Richardson. SYNOPSIS: Fox Rich fights for the release of her husband, Rob, who is serving a 60-year sentence in prison. Garrett Bradley’s towering – if perhaps too-hurried – documentary powerfully highlights a near-indisputable truth; black Americans are playing a rigged game that so […]
2020 BFI London Film Festival Review – Herself
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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, […]
Netflix Review – The Haunting of Bly Manor
Shaun Munro reviews The Haunting of Bly Manor… Filmmaker Mike Flanagan (Doctor Sleep) set a perilously high bar for himself with 2018’s masterful Netflix Original series The Haunting of Hill House, which used its 10 episodes to tell a daring, emotionally rich reimagining of Shirley Jackson’s 1959 novel of the same name. Flanagan returns now […]
Lovecraft Country Season 1 Episode 8 – ‘Jig-A-Bobo’
Martin Carr reviews the eighth episode Lovecraft Country… Brutal beatings, reams of barbed wire and a community in mourning work in opposition to an Eighties soundtrack. Demonic twins from Uncle Tom’s Cabin haunt the steps of a Freeman member, while Hippolyta remains at large. Elsewhere runes and rituals clash with time travel and racial unrest […]
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 […]
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 […]
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