The Descent, 2005.Directed by Neil Marshall. Starring Shauna Macdonald, Natalie Mendoza, Alex Reid, Saskia Mulder, MyAnna Buring and Nora-Jane Noone.SYNOPSIS:A group of friends on a spelunking holiday themselves trapped within the complex maze of dead ends cramped caves. Their ordeal is only worsened when they are forced to fight for survival against vicious creatures lurking […]
Movie Review – Time (2020)
Time, 2020.Directed by Garrett Bradley.SYNOPSIS:A mother of six fights for the release of her husband, who is serving a 60-year prison sentence.13th, Ava DuVernay’s Oscar-nominated, Emmy Award-winning documentary from 2016, begins with an alarming statistic: One out of four African-American males will serve prison time at one point or another in their lives. For many […]
Movie Review – 2 Hearts (2020)
2 Hearts, 2020.Directed by Lance Hool. Starring Jacob Elordi, Adan Canto, Tiera Skovbye, Radha Mitchell, Kari Matchett, Tahmoh Penikett, Steve Bacic, Anthony Konechny, Jordan Burtchett, and Malcolm Stewart.SYNOPSIS:For two couples the future unfolds in different decades and different places, but a hidden connection will bring them together in a way no one could have predicted.Marketing […]
Movie Review – Farewell Amor (2020)
Farewell Amor, 2020.Directed by Ekwa Msangi. Starring Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine, Zainab Jah, Jayme Lawson, Nana Mensah, Marcus Scribner and Joie Lee.SYNOPSIS:Seventeen years after he moved from Angola to New York City, a man is joined by his wife and daughter, only to discover that all three of them have changed dramatically since they were […]
2020 BFI London Film Festival Review – Undine
Undine, 2020.Written and directed by Christian Petzold. Starring Paula Beer, Franz Rogowski, and Maryam Zaree.SYNOPSIS:Undine works as an historian lecturing on Berlin’s urban development. But when the man she loves leaves her, the ancient myth catches up with her. Undine has to kill the man who betrays her and return to the water.Christian Petzold (Barbara, Transit) […]
Lovecraft Country Season 1 Episode 9 Review – ‘Rewind 1921’
Martin Carr reviews the penultimate episode of Lovecraft Country…Watchmen now has a companion piece of equal breadth, comparable depth and intellectual understatement. Time travel, transgender exploration and unrelenting discussions of race underpin this penultimate episode. Tulsa is the touchstone, historical massacres our blue touch paper and generational legacies once more at stake. This is part […]
Movie Review – Shirley (2020)
Shirley, 2020.Directed by Josephine Decker.Starring Elisabeth Moss, Odessa Young, Michael Stuhlbarg, Logan Lerman, Victoria Pedretti, Robert Wuhl, Paul O’Brien, Orlagh Cassidy, Allen McCullough, Bisserat Tseggai and Edward O’Blenis.SYNOPSIS:A famous horror writer finds inspiration for her next book after she and her husband take in a young couple.A charged dynamic propels Shirley, a thriller which has […]
2020 BFI London Film Festival Review – Wildfire
Wildfire, 2020.Written and directed by Cathy Brady. Starring Nora Jane Noone, Nika McGuigan, Kate Dickie, and Martin McCann.SYNOPSIS:The story of two sisters who grew up on the fractious Irish border. When one of them, who has been missing, finally returns home, the intense bond with her sister is re-ignited. Together they unearth their mother’s past, but […]
2020 BFI London Film Festival Review – I Am Samuel
I Am Samuel, 2020.Directed by Pete Murimi.SYNOPSIS:A gay couple in Kenya deal with the fact their relationship is illegal, as well as their disapproving families.“This is Alex. I am Sammy. Alex is the love of my life.” So opens Kenyan documentary I Am Samuel, without a “can I make it any more obvious?” for the […]
2020 BFI London Film Festival Review – Genus Pan
Genus Pan, 2020.Written and directed by Lav Diaz. Starring Nanding Josef, Bart Guingona, and Don Melvin Boongaling.SYNOPSIS:A look at how much human beings are like animals.Lav Diaz’s (Norte, the End of History) new 157-minute film will likely seem like a positively restrained effort to his followers, given that it isn’t uncommon for his works to run […]
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