Oldboy, 2003. Directed by Park Chan-wook. Starring Choi Min-sik, Yu Ji-tae, Kang Hye-jeong, and Kim Byeong-ok. SYNOPSIS: Arrow Video unleashes Park Chan-wook’s influential revenge thriller Oldboy in an extensive Limited Edition 4-disc Blu-ray set with a couple of special extras. Although some of their recent standalone releases have been pushing the loyalty of collectors thanks […]
2019 BFI London Film Festival Review – Tremors
Tremors, 2019. Directed by Jayro Bustamante. Starring Juan Pablo Olyslager, Diane Bathen, Mauricio Armas Zebadua, Sabrina de la Hoz, Maria Telon and Rui Frati. SYNOPSIS: In Guatemala, a man’s decision to come out as gay causes problems with his evangelical Christian family, not to mention his wife and kids. The opening scenes of Guatemalan drama […]
Movie Review – Synchronic (2019)
Synchronic, 2019. Directed by Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead. Starring Anthony Mackie, Jamie Dornan, and Katie Aselton. SYNOPSIS: Two New Orleans paramedics’ lives are ripped apart after encountering a series of horrific deaths linked to a designer drug with bizarre, otherworldly effects. Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead are two of the most distinctive indie genre […]
Batwoman Season 1 Episode 1 Review – ‘Pilot’
Jessie Robertson reviews the premiere episode of Batwoman… In our premiere episode of Batwoman, we are introduced to Kate Kane, distant (but close) relative of Bruce Wayne and the Wayne family. We find her training in the Arctic, being locked in feet cuffs and dropped in the freezing cold water, only to have to escape […]
2019 BFI London Film Festival Review – The Disappearance of My Mother
The Disappearance of My Mother, 2019. Directed by Beniamino Barrese. Starring Beniamino Barrese and Benedetta Barzini. SYNOPSIS: A once-iconic fashion model strives to escape the world of images and disappear for good, but her son’s determination to make a final film about her sparks an unexpected collaboration and confrontation with the camera’s gaze. Beniamino Barrese’s […]
2019 BFI London Film Festival Review – Perfect 10
Perfect 10, 2019. Directed by Eva Riley. Starring Frankie Box, Alfie Deegan, Sharlene Whyte, Billy Mogford, William Ash and Nicola Wright. SYNOPSIS: An aspiring teen gymnast’s world is turned upside down with the arrival of the half-brother she never knew she had. Perfect 10 is the poignant charting of a new relationship between a brother […]
October Horrors 2019 Day 6 – The Neon Demon (2016)
The Neon Demon, 2016. Directed Nicolas Winding Refn. Starring Elle Fanning, Karl Glusman, Jena Malone, Bella Heathcote, Desmond Harrington, Christina Hendricks and Keanu Reeves. SYNOPSIS: After the death of her parents, Jesse moves to Los Angeles to pursue a career as a model, with her youth and beauty unleashing intense dark feelings of jealousy and […]
2019 BFI London Film Festival Review – Waiting for the Barbarians
Waiting for the Barbarians, 2019. Directed by Ciro Guerra. Starring Mark Rylance, Johnny Depp, Robert Pattinson, Gana Bayarsaikhan, Greta Scacchi, David Dencik. SYNOPSIS: In a distant, unnamed colonial outpost in the Middle Eastern desert, a Magistrate begins to question his loyalty to the Empire after the arrival of state security officers with morally questionable methods. […]
2019 BFI London Film Festival Review – Monsoon
Monsoon, 2019. Directed by Hong Khaou. Starring Henry Golding and Parker Sawyers. SYNOPSIS: Kit, a British Vietnamese man, returns to Saigon for the first time in over 30 years, after fleeing during the Vietnam-American War. Hong Khaou’s follow-up to his 2014 debut Lilting is a similarly sober offering that, despite its scant 86-minute runtime, is in […]
2019 BFI London Film Festival Review – Rose Plays Julie
Rose Plays Julie, 2019. Directed by Joe Lawlor & Christine Molloy. Starring Ann Skelly, Orla Brady, Aidan Gillen, Catherine Walker, Sadie Soverall, Annabell Rickerby, Joanne Crawford and Alan Howley. SYNOPSIS: An adopted girl seeks out her birth mother, only to be told she has no desire to meet her. With her interest piqued however, she […]
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