Martin Carr reviews the first episode of Helstrom…Showrunner Paul Zbyszewski has created in Helstrom something of substance. A dysfunctional family dynamic with far reaching ramifications, barely veiled contempt and more depth than Marvel television were banking on. Much of the success here comes down to casting which provides audiences with pitch perfect protagonists in Daimon […]
Movie Review – Mangrove (2020)
Mangrove, 2020. Directed by Steve McQueen. Starring Shaun Parkes, Letitia Wright, Malachi Kirby, Rochenda Sandall, Sam Spruell, Jack Lowden, Alex Jennings, Nathaniel Martello-White, Llewella Gideon, Gershwyn Eustache Jnr, Gary Beadle, Richie Campbell, Jumayn Hunter, Joseph Quinn, Derek Griffiths, Jodhi May, Richard Cordery, Tahj Miles and Samuel West. SYNOPSIS: Mangrove tells this true story of The […]
2020 BFI London Film Festival Review – After Love
After Love, 2020.Written and directed by Aleem Khan. Starring Joanna Scanlan, Nathalie Richard, Talid Ariss and Nasser Memarzia.SYNOPSIS:Set in the port town of Dover, Mary Hussain suddenly finds herself a widow following the unexpected death of her husband. A day after the burial, she discovers he has a secret just twenty-one miles across the English […]
Movie Review – Rose: A Love Story (2020)
Rose: A Love Story, 2020.Directed by Jennifer Sheridan. Starring Sophie Rundle, Matt Stokoe, Olive Gray and Nathan McMullen.SYNOPSIS:A couple living in an isolated woodland cottage, away from the rest of humanity, for unique reasons must reckon with the risk that their secret home may be discovered.Vampirism has been around on the big screen since the […]
Movie Review – Synchronic (2020)
Synchronic, 2020.Written and Directed by Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead. Starring Jamie Dornan, Anthony Mackie, Katie Aselton, Alexia Ioannides, Shane Brady, Bill Oberst Jr., Natasha Tina Liu, Martin Bats Bradford, Devyn A. Tyler, Lawrence Turner, Aaron Groben, Betsy Holt, Walker Babington, Sam Malone, and Carl Palmer.SYNOPSIS:Two New Orleans paramedics’ lives are ripped apart after they […]
Movie Review – Rebecca (2020)
Rebecca, 2020.Directed by Ben Wheatley. Starring Lily James, Armie Hammer, Keeley Hawes, Kristin Scott Thomas, Sam Riley, Anna Dowd and Bill Paterson.SYNOPSIS:Manderley is the ancestral country seat of Maxim de Winter (Armie Hammer). Shrouded in secrets, rife with scandal and cloaked in tragedy it sits precariously overlooking a ravaged coast line. It is here that […]
2020 BFI London Film Festival Review – New Order
New Order, 2020.Written and directed by Michel Franco. Starring Naian González Norvind, Diego Boneta, and Mónica del Carmen.SYNOPSIS:A high-society wedding is interrupted by the arrival of unwelcome guests.In a feat as impressive as it is maddening, Michel Franco’s (After Lucia, Chronic) new film – which scooped Venice’s Grand Jury Prize – just might be his most […]
2020 BFI London Film Festival Review – Nomadland
Nomadland, 2020.Co-written and directed by Chloé Zhao. Starring Frances McDormand, David Strathairn, Linda May, Charlene Swankie, and Bob Wells.SYNOPSIS:Follows a woman in her sixties who, after losing everything in the Great Recession, embarks on a journey through the American West, living as a van-dwelling modern-day nomad.Chloé Zhao’s third feature comfortably catapults her into the A-list of […]
2020 BFI London Film Festival Review – Striding Into the Wind
Striding Into the Wind, 2020.Co-written and directed by Shujun Wei. Starring Zhou You, Zheng Yingchen, and Wang Xiaomu.SYNOPSIS:Kun seems to be messing up pretty much everything: his senior year at film school, the job on his friend’s graduation film, and the relationship with his girlfriend. But Kun just acquired the cheapest second-hand car he could find: […]
2020 BFI London Film Festival Review – Zanka Contact
Zanka Contact, 2020.Written and directed by Ismaël El Iraki. Starring Ahmed Hammoud, Khansa Batma, and Saïd Bey.SYNOPSIS:In hellish Casablanca, a car-crash sets ablaze a burning, passionate love story between has-been rocker Larsen and the streetwise amazon Rajae.Anyone who’s seen more than a few-dozen films in their life will find plenty familiar about writer-director Ismael El Iraki’s […]
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