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 […]
A Babysitter’s Guide To Monster Hunting is perfect for Halloween | Video Review
A Babysitter’s Guide To Monster Hunting, 2020.Directed by Rachel Talalay. Starring Tamara Smart, Oona Laurence, Indya Moore, and Tom Felton.As someone who appreciates family-friendly horror films, our critic EJ Moreno offers up a unique take on A Babysitter’s Guide To Monster Hunting. This Rachel Talalay-directed film makes for a perfect Halloween viewing with the spooky […]
October Horrors 2020 – Cannibal Holocaust (1980)
Cannibal Holocaust, 1980.Directed by Ruggero Deodato. Starring Robert Kerman, Carl Gabriel Yorke, Francesca Ciardi, Perry Pirkanen and Luca Barbaeschi.SYNOPSIS:After a documentary crew go missing in the Amazon Jungle, an anthropologist ventures into the jungle to search for them. What he discovers is far more horrifying than he could have possibly imagined.Found footage is a genre […]
2020 BFI London Film Festival Review – Limbo
Limbo, 2020.Written and directed by Ben Sharrock. Starring Amir El-Masry, Vikash Bhai, and Sidse Babett Knudsen.SYNOPSIS:Omar is a promising young musician. Separated from his Syrian family, he is stuck on a remote Scottish island awaiting the fate of his asylum request.There’s an understandable seriousness and sobriety to most movies chronicling the asylum seeker experience, and so […]
Movie Review – Undine (2020)
Undine, 2020.Written and directed by Christian Petzold.Starring Paula Beer, Franz Rogowski, Jacob Matschenz, Maryam Zaree, Anne Ratte-Polle, Julia Franz Richter, Rafael Stachowiak, José Barros and Gloria Endres de Oliveira.SYNOPSIS:Undine works as a historian lecturing on Berlin’s urban development. But when the man she loves leaves her, the ancient myth catches up with her. Undine has […]
Movie Review – The Intruder (2020)
The Intruder, 2020.Directed by Natalia Meta. Starring Erica Rivas, Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, Daniel Hendler, Cecilia Roth, Mirta Busnelli and Agustín Rittano.SYNOPSIS:A dubbing artist and singer is plagued by troubling noises and an unravelling mental state in the wake of trauma.There’s an interesting little sub-genre of horror movies and dark thrillers set in the world of […]
2020 BFI London Film Festival Review – Another Round
Another Round, 2020Directed by Thomas Vinterberg. Starring Mads Mikkelsen, Thomas Bo Larsen, Lars Ranthe and Magnus Millang.SYNOPSIS: Four friends, all high school teachers, test a theory that they will improve their lives by maintaining a constant level of alcohol in their blood.‘It’s not just a film about drinking. Our ambition was to make a film […]
Movie Review – The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2020)
The Trial of the Chicago 7, 2020.Written and Directed by Aaron Sorkin. Starring Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Sacha Baron Cohen, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Michael Keaton, Frank Langella, John Carroll Lynch, Eddie Redmayne, Mark Rylance, Alex Sharp, Jeremy Strong, Daniel Flaherty, and Noah Robbins.SYNOPSIS:In 1969 for one hundred and fifty one days seven men went on trial accused […]
2020 BFI London Film Festival Review – Notturno
Notturno, 2020.Written and directed by Gianfranco Rosi.SYNOPSIS:Gianfranco Rosi’s new documentary is an immersive portrait of those trying to survive in the war-torn Middle East.Gianfranco Rosi’s (Fire at Sea) new documentary affirms both the strengths and weaknesses of his quasi-observational filmmaking style, delivering a deeply-felt yet flawed collage of life lived on the borders of Iraq, Kurdistan, […]
Movie Review – Ready Player One (2018)
Ready Player One, 2018.Directed by Steven Spielberg. Starring Tye Sheridan, Olivia Cooke, Ben Mendelsohn, Mark Rylance, Simon Pegg, T.J. Miller, Lena Waithe, Hannah John-Kamen, Ralph Ineson, Mckenna Grace, Win Morisaki, Susan Lynch, and Philip Zhao.SYNOPSIS:When the creator of a virtual reality world called the OASIS dies, he releases a video in which he challenges all OASIS […]
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