One Man and His Shoes, 2020. Directed by Yemi Bamiro. Starring David Falk, Jemele Hill, Scoop Jackson, David Stern, and Rick Telander. SYNOPSIS: The story of the phenomenon of Air Jordan sneakers, showing their social, cultural, and racial significance, and how ground-breaking marketing strategies created a multi-billion-dollar business. Yemi Bamiro’s feature debut chronicles the distinctly American […]
2020 BFI London Film Festival Review – Ultraviolence
Ultraviolence, 2020. Written and directed by Ken Fero. SYNOPSIS: Since 1969, there have been over 2000 deaths in police custody in the UK. It is a frightening statistic that Ken Fero approaches with seasoned conviction. Ultraviolence employs unflinching archival footage to document the tragic and undignified deaths that took place between 1995 and 2005. Ken Fero’s […]
Movie Review – 180 Degree Rule (2020)
180 Degree Rule, 2020. Directed by Farnoosh Samadi. Starring Sahar Dolatshahi, Pejman Jamshidi, Hassan Pourshirazi and Mohammad Heidari. SYNOPSIS: In the wake of a traumatic event, a mother becomes trapped in a rapidly unravelling web of deceit. Everyone does strange things in the wake of trauma. That’s something with which we can all sympathise. And […]
Movie Review – The Opening Act (2020)
The Opening Act, 2020. Written and Directed by Steve Byrne. Starring Jimmy O. Yang, Neal Brennan, Jermaine Fowler, Cedric the Entertainer, Alex Moffat, Bill Burr, Debby Ryan, Ken Jeong, Roy Wood Jr., Russell Peters, Courtney Pauroso, Jackie Tohn, Tom Segura, Alonzo Bodden, Mircea Monroe, Iliza Schlesinger, Brooks Wheelan, Anjelah Johnson-Reyes, Kathleen Madigan, Jessimae Peluso, and […]
2020 BFI London Film Festival Review – Cicada
Cicada, 2020. Directed by Matt Fifer and Kieran Mulcare. Starring Matt Fifer, Sheldon D. Brown, and Sandra Bauleo. SYNOPSIS: New York City, 2013. A young bisexual man enters an interracial relationship. In the midst of the Sandusky trial, against the backdrop of a cicada summer, he comes to terms with his own childhood trauma. Multi-hyphenate filmmaker […]
Movie Review – Siberia (2020)
Siberia, 2020. Co-written and directed by Abel Ferrara. Starring Willem Dafoe, Dounia Sichov, and Simon McBurney. SYNOPSIS: A barman in Siberia heads to a nearby cave where he explores his dreams and memories. Abel Ferrara’s sixth collaboration with Willem Dafoe is by a measure their most challenging – if perhaps not their most successful – […]
Movie Review – The Devil Has a Name (2020)
The Devil Has a Name, 2020. Directed by Edward James Olmos. Starring Kate Bosworth, Haley Joel Osment, Pablo Schreiber, Martin Sheen, Alfred Molina, Katie Aselton, David Strathairn, and Edward James Olmos. SYNOPSIS: A psychotic oil matriarch leaves the whole industry exposed when she attempts to outfight a bullish farmer whose water has been poisoned. I […]
Movie Review – Herself (2020)
Herself, 2020 Directed by Phyllida Lloyd. Starring Clare Dunne, Harriet Walter, Conleth Hill, Molly McCann, Ruby Rose O’Hara, Ian Lloyd Anderson, Cathy Belton and Sarah Kinlen. SYNOPSIS: This is the story of young mother Sandra who escapes her abusive husband and fights back against a broken housing system. She sets out to build her own […]
2020 BFI London Film Festival Review – The Intruder
The Intruder, 2020. Written and directed by Natalia Meta. Starring Érica Rivas, Nahuel Perez Biscayart, and Daniel Hendler. SYNOPSIS: The story of Inés, a young woman who after a traumatic episode during a trip with her partner begins to confuse herself between the real and the imaginary. Sound is a wholly undervalued aspect of filmmaking, and […]
Movie Review – Clouds (2020)
Clouds, 2020. Directed by Justin Baldoni. Starring Fin Argus, Sabrina Carpenter, Madison Iseman, Neve Campbell, Lil Rel Howery, Tom Everett Scott, Dylan Everett, Summer H. Howell, Vivien Endicott Douglas, and Mylène Dinh-Robic. SYNOPSIS: Young musician Zach Sobiech discovers his cancer has spread, leaving him just a few months to live. With limited time, he follows his dream […]
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