Candyman, 1992. Directed by Bernard Rose. Starring Tony Todd, Virgina Madsen, Xander Berkley, Vanessa A. Williams and Kesi Lemmons. SYNOPSIS: A graduate student in Chicago is completing a thesis into urban legends when she stumbles onto the legend of the “Candyman”, a mysterious entity who is said to brutally murders those who summon him. In […]
2019 BFI London Film Festival Review – Hope Gap
Hope Gap, 2019. Directed by William Nicholson. Starring Bill Nighy, Annette Bening, Josh O’Connor, Aiysha Hart, Ryan McKen, Sally Rogers, Steven Pacey, Rose Keegan, and Derren Litten. SYNOPSIS: A couple’s visit with their son takes a dramatic turn when the father tells him he plans on leaving his mother. Hope Gap is a study of […]
2019 BFI London Film Festival Review – Bombay Rose
Bombay Rose, 2019. Directed by Gitanjali Rao. Starring Cyli Khare, Amit Deondi, Amardeep Jha, Makrand Deshpande, Gargi Shitole and Virendra Saxena. SYNOPSIS: Interlocking stories of people living in Mumbai, encompassing romance, grief and the world of crime. There has never been a better time to be a fan of animated cinema. The big guns of […]
2019 BFI London Film Festival Review – Scales
Scales, 2019. Directed by Shahad Ameen. Starring Baseema Hajjar, Yaqoub Alfarhan and Ashraf Barhom. SYNOPSIS: In an isolated island community, each family must sacrifice one daughter to the sea creatures who surround it. But one young girl has been spared that fate by her father, making her an outcast in the community. A few years […]
Movie Review – El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie (2019)
El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie, 2019. Directed by Vince Gilligan. Starring Aaron Paul, Matt Jones, Charles Baker, Jonathan Banks, and Larry Hankin. SYNOPSIS: Picking up after the events of Breaking Bad, Jesse Pinkman is on the run. How do you follow up Breaking Bad, a show that is consistently named as one of the […]
October Horrors 2019 Day 11 – Poltergeist (1982)
Poltergeist, 1982. Directed by Tobe Hooper. Starring JoBeth Williams, Craig T. Nelson, Dominique Dunn, Oliver Robins, Heather O’ Rourke, Beatrice Straight, and Zelda Rubinstein. SYNOPSIS: A family finds their seemingly normal home invaded by a malicious demonic entity that kidnaps their young daughter. After the yesterday’s arthouse fare lets change gears, grab some popcorn and […]
2019 BFI London Film Festival Review – Earthquake Bird
Earthquake Bird, 2019. Written and directed by Wash Westmoreland. Starring Alicia Vikander, Riley Keough, and Naoki Kobayashi. SYNOPSIS: A young woman living in Tokyo becomes the prime suspect in a horrific murder when her friend goes missing in the wake of a tumultuous love triangle. Acclaimed filmmaker Wash Westmoreland (Still Alice, Colette) tries his hand […]
2019 BFI London Film Festival Review — The Antenna
The Antenna, 2019. Directed by Orçun Behram. Starring Ihsan Önal, Gül Arici, Elif Cakman. SYNOPSIS: As an ominous midnight government bulletin draws nearer, a tower block and its inhabitants come under siege from a mysterious, deadly liquid seeping from the building’s antenna. A clunky mix-match of familiar genre tropes and far-from-subtle social commentary permeates Turkish […]
2019 BFI London Film Festival Review – First Love
First Love, 2019. Directed by Takashi Miike. Starring Becky, Masataka Kubota, Nao Omori, Masaaki Uchino, Shota Sometani, Takehiro Miura, Sakurako Konishi, Jun Murakami, and Sansei Shiomi. SYNOPSIS: A young boxer and a call girl get caught up in a drug-smuggling scheme over the course of one night in Tokyo. The latest film from the industrious […]
2019 BFI London Film Festival Review – Burning Cane
Burning Cane, 2019. Directed by Phillip Youmans. Starring Wendell Pierce, Karen Kaia Livers, and Dominique McClellan. SYNOPSIS: Amongst the cane fields of rural Louisiana, an aging mother struggles between her religious convictions and the love of her son. Phillip Youmans delivers one of the most precocious feature debuts in recent memory with Burning Cane, a film […]
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