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2020 BFI London Film Festival Review – American Utopia

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American Utopia, 2020. Directed by Spike Lee. Starring David Byrne, Jaqueline Acevedo, and Gustavo di Dalva. SYNOPSIS: Spike Lee documents the former Talking Heads frontman’s brilliant, timely 2019 Broadway show, based on his recent album and tour of the same name. On the face of things, Talking Heads frontman David Byrne and director Spike Lee are […]

2020 BFI London Film Festival Review – If It Were Love

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If It Were Love, 2020. Written and directed by Patric Chiha. Starring Gisèle Vienne. SYNOPSIS: They are fifteen young dancers of various origins and horizons. They are touring “Crowd,” Gisèle Vienne’s dance piece on the ’90s rave scene. Following them from theatre to theatre, If It Were Love documents their work as well as their strange, […]

Movie Review – Shithouse (2020)

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Shithouse, 2020. Directed by Cooper Raiff. Starring Cooper Raiff, Dylan Gelula, Amy Landecker, Logan Miller, Olivia Welch, and Abby Quinn. SYNOPSIS: Lonely college freshman Alex has closed himself off from his peers, who all appear to have this whole “college thing” figured out. But everything changes one night when Alex takes a leap and attends a […]

October Horrors 2020 – Us (2019)

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Us, 2019. Directed by Jordan Peele. Starring Lupita Nyong’o, Winston Duke, Evan Alex, Shahadi Wright Joseph, Elisabeth Moss and Tim Heidecker.   SYNOPSIS: Gabe and Adelaide Wilson take their children on a vacation to their beach house hoping to enjoy some sunshine and relaxation. The family’s fun, however, is ruined by the arrival of a […]

2020 BFI London Film Festival Review – Shadow Country

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Shadow Country, 2020. Directed by Bohdan Sláma. Starring Magdaléna Borová, Stanislav Majer, and Csongor Kassai. SYNOPSIS: Chronicles the events of a village on the Czech-Austrian border from the 1930s to 1950s, where genocide occurred due to fallout between German citizens and Czechs who collaborated with the Nazi regime during the war. Intimate in style yet […]

Movie Review – Wolfwalkers (2020)

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Wolfwalkers, 2020. Directed by Tomm Moore and Ross Stewart Featuring the voice talents of Honor Kneafsey, Eva Whittaker, Sean Bean, Maria Doyle Kennedy, and Simon McBurney. SYNOPSIS: A young apprentice hunter and her father journey to Ireland to help wipe out the last wolf pack. But everything changes when she befriends a free-spirited girl from […]

2020 BFI London Film Festival Review – A Common Crime

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A Common Crime, 2020. Co-written and directed by Francisco Márquez. Starring Elisa Carricajo, Mecha Martínez, and Eliot Otazo. SYNOPSIS: Cecilia is a sociology teacher. One night the son of her maid desperately knocks on the door of her house. She doesn’t open. The next day, his body shows up murdered by the police. Cecilia begins to […]

Movie Review – Never Gonna Snow Again (2020)

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Never Gonna Snow Again, 2020. Directed by Malgorzata Szumowska and Michal Englert. Starring Alec Utgoff, Maja Ostaszewska, Agata Kulesza, Weronika Rosati, Katarzyna Figura, Lukasz Simlat, Andrzej Chyra, Krzysztof Czeczot, Astrid Nanowska, Wojciech Starostecki, Maciej Drosio and Olaf Marchwicki. SYNOPSIS: Zhenia, a Russian-speaking immigrant from the East, works as a masseur in Poland and becomes a […]

Movie Review – Mogul Mowgli (2020)

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Mogul Mowgli, 2020. Directed by Bassam Tariq. Starring Riz Ahmed, Alyy Khan, Anjana Vasan, Aiysha Hart, Kiran Sonia Sawar, Abdul Hakim Joy, Hussain Manawer, Nabhaan Rizwan, Sudha Bhuchar, Ali Barouti, Mitesh Soni, Jeff Mirza, Khariis Ubiaro and Afraz Hussain. SYNOPSIS: A British-Pakistani rapper is on the cusp of his first world tour, but is struck […]