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 […]
2019 BFI London Film Festival Movie Review – The Report
The Report, 2019. Directed by Scott Z. Burns Starring Adam Driver, Annette Benning, Jon Hamm, Corey Stoll, Linda Powell, Maura Tierney, Michael C. Hall, Fajer Al-Kaisi, Tim Blake Nelson, Ted Levine, Scott Shepherd, Matthew Rhys, Lucas Dixon, and Sarah Goldberg. SYNOPSIS: When dedicated, idealistic Senate staffer Daniel J. Jones (Adam Driver) is assigned the task […]
2019 BFI London Film Festival Review – Little Monsters
Little Monsters, 2019. Directed by Abe Forsythe. Starring Lupita Nyong’o, Josh Gad, Alexander England, Kat Stewart, Stephen Peacocke, Henry Nixon, Felix Williamson, Nadia Townsend, and Marshall Napier. SYNOPSIS: When perennial man-child and failed musician Dave (Alexander England) decides to use his nephew’s petting-zoo field-trip as a way of getting close to his teacher (Lupita Nyong’o), […]
Movie Review – Monos (2019)
Monos, 2019. Directed by Alejandro Landes. Starring Moisés Arias, Julianne Nicholson, Sofia Buenaventura, Karen Quintero, Julian Giraldo, Laura Castrillón, Deibi Rueda, Paul Cubides, Sneider Castro, Wilson Salazar, and Jorge Román. SYNOPSIS: On a faraway mountaintop, eight kids with guns watch over a hostage and a conscripted milk cow. Colombia’s official entry for the upcoming Academy […]
Movie Review – The Last Black Man in San Francisco (2019)
The Last Black Man in San Francisco, 2019. Directed by Joe Talbot. Starring Jimmie Fails, Jonathan Majors, Rob Morgan, Tichina Arnold, Mike Epps, Finn Wittrock, Danny Glover, Jamal Trulove, Willie Hen, and Jordan Gomes. SYNOPSIS: Against a backdrop of gentrification, poverty, and an environmental crisis, Jimmie (Jimmie Fails) fights to maintain his legacy, and find […]
2019 BFI London Film Festival Review – Just Mercy
Just Mercy, 2019. Directed by Destin Daniel Cretton Starring Michael B. Jordan, Jamie Foxx, Brie Larson, Rafe Spall, O’Shea Jackson Jr., Tim Blake Neslon, Rob Morgan, Darrell Britt-Gibson, and Kirk Bovill SYNOPSIS: Charting the embryonic stages of civil defence attorney Brian Stevenson’s (Michael B. Jordan) illustrious career, Just Mercy recalls the very first cases he […]
2019 BFI London Film Festival Review – System Crasher
System Crasher, 2019. Directed by Nora Fingscheidt. Starring Helena Zengel, Albrecht Schuch, and Gabriela Maria Schmeide. SYNOPSIS: On her wild quest for love, 9-year-old Benni’s untamed energy drives everyone around her to despair. The feature debut of writer-director Nora Fingscheidt dares to tackle a shockingly under-explored issue in cinema centered around troubled youths; uncontrollable anger, […]
October Horrors 2019 Day 5 – The Blair Witch Project (1999)
The Blair Witch Project, 1999. Directed by Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sanchez Starring Heather Donahue, Michael C. Williams and Joshua Leonard. SYNOPSIS: In 1994, a group of documentary film-makers ventured into the woods of the Black Hills in Maryland to investigate the mysterious local legend of the Blair Witch. They subsequently vanished leaving behind only […]
2019 BFI London Film Festival Review – The King
The King, 2019. Directed by David Michôd. Starring Timothée Chalamet, Joel Edgerton, Sean Harris, Robert Pattinson, Ben Mendelsohn, Dean-Charles Chapman, Tom Glynn-Carney, Lily-Rose Depp, Thomasin McKenzie, Andrew Havill, Edward Ashley and Tara Fitzgerald. SYNOPSIS: Hal, wayward prince and heir to the English throne, is crowned King Henry V after his tyrannical father dies. Now the […]
2019 BFI London Film Festival Review – The Lighthouse
The Lighthouse, 2019. Directed by Robert Eggers. Starring Robert Pattinson, Willem Dafoe, and Valeriia Karaman. SYNOPSIS: The hypnotic and hallucinatory tale of two lighthouse keepers on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s. The Lighthouse is about as boldly entrancing a second feature as one could imagine from any filmmaker, let alone Robert […]
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