Antrum: The Deadliest Film Ever Made, 2020.Directed by David Amito and Michael Laicini. Starring Nicole Tompkins, Rowan Smyth, Dan Istrate, Circus-Szalewski, Kristel Elling, Shu Sakimoto, Pierluca Arancio.SYNOPSIS:Billed as ‘the deadliest film ever made’, Antrum is a cautionary slice of cinematic history. We’re introduced to a movie that is reportedly responsible for numerous mysterious deaths and […]
Movie Review – Beasts Clawing At Straws (2020)
Beasts Clawing At Straws, 2020.Directed by Kim Yong-hoon. Starring Jeon Do-yeon, Jung Woo-sung, Youn Yuh-jung, Bae Seong-woo, Shin Hyun-bin, Jung Man-sik, Jin Kyung and Jung Ga-ram.SYNOPSIS:A struggling restaurant owner, caring for his sick mom, finds a bag of cash in a sauna locker, while a customs officer gets into trouble when his girlfriend runs off […]
Movie Review – After Love (2020)
After Love, 2020.Directed by Aleem Khan. Starring Joanna Scanlan, Nathalie Richard, Talid Ariss and Nasser Memarzia.SYNOPSIS:After the death of her husband, a woman travels across the English Channel to find the woman with whom he was having an affair.Joanna Scanlan is one of the most underrated and versatile actors in Britain. She’s perhaps best known […]
Marvel’s Helstrom Season 1 Episode 4 Review – ‘Containment’
Martin Carr reviews the fourth episode of Marvel’s Helstrom… At the heart of this pitch black comic book adaptation sits a moral and ethical quandary. More confounding things are under discussion than mere angels and demons. Matters of heaven and hell pale into insignificance alongside the decisions being made regarding the possessed. Whatever your stance […]
Movie Review – The Human Voice (2020)
The Human Voice, 2020.Directed by Pedro Almodovar. Starring Tilda Swinton.SYNOPSIS:A woman waits for a phonecall from her ex-lover of 5 years, after he has recently left her.In 1930, Jean Cocteau’s monologue The Human Voice premiered at the Comedie-Francaise. The piece at that time would have seemed dazzlingly experimental – an audience for the first time […]
Movie Review – Limbo (2020)
Limbo, 2020.Directed by Ben Sharrock. Starring Amir El-Masry, Vikash Bhai, Kwabena Ansah, Ola Orebiyi, Sidse Babett Knudsen and Sanjeev Kohli.SYNOPSIS:A group of immigrants housed on a remote Scottish island wait anxiously for the response to their asylum claims.It’s such a cliché to refer to a movie as “timely”, particularly this year in the wake of […]
Movie Review – Friendsgiving (2020)
Friendsgiving, 2020.Written and Directed by Nicol Paone. Starring Malin Åkerman, Kat Dennings, Jack Donnelly, Jane Seymour, Aisha Tyler, Deon Cole, Ryan Hansen, Chelsea Peretti, Christine Taylor, Wanda Sykes, Margaret Cho, Rhea Butcher, Fortune Feimster, Andrew Santino, Carla Jimenez, Brianna Baker, Scout Durwood, Mike Rose, and Dana DeLorenzo.SYNOPSIS:Molly and Abbey, along with their crew of close […]
Movie Review – Radium Girls (2020)
Radium Girls, 2020.Directed by Lydia Dean Pilcher and Ginny Mohler. Starring Joey King, Abby Quinn, Cara Seymour, Scott Shepherd, Olivia Macklin, Neal Huff, Collin Kelly-Sordelet, John Bedford Lloyd, Susan Heyward, Joe Grifasi, Brandon Gill, Colby Minifie, Veanne Cox, Greg Hildreth, Gina Piersanti, Juliana Sass, Carol Cadby, and Steven Hauck.SYNOPSIS:In the 1920s a group of factory […]
Lovecraft Country Season 1 Finale Review – ‘Full Circle’
Martin Carr reviews the season finale of Lovecraft Country…This tale of ancestral emancipation reaches its conclusion and comes ‘Full Circle’ in a finale peppered with poetic overtones. Deep rooted preconceptions which stretch back for generations, both real and imagined, get closure as Lovecraft Country leaves an indelible mark. Witchcraft and incantations gel with family moments […]
Movie Review – Possessor (2020)
Possessor, 2020.Directed by Brandon Cronenberg. Starring Andrea Riseborough, Christopher Abbott, Tuppence Middleton, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Rossif Sutherland, Gabrielle Graham, Kaniehtiio Horn, and Sean Bean.SYNOPSIS:Tasya Vos (Andrea Riseborough) is a special operative for a secret organisation who carry out assassinations for high-paying clients. The USP is that they use brain-implant technology to inhabit other people’s bodies […]
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