Lara, 2019.Directed by Jan Ole Gerster. Starring Corinna Harfouch, Tom Schilling, Volkmar Kleinert, Rainer Bock, Gudrun Ritter and André Jung.SYNOPSIS:On her 60th birthday, a woman prepares to attend a piano concert being given by her virtuoso son.At the beginning of Jan Ole Gerster’s patient character study Lara, the title character stands next to a wide […]
The Flash Season 6 Episode 1 Review – ‘Into the Void’
Jessie Robertson reviews the season 6 premiere of The Flash… Welcome back to Central City! Season 6 kicks off with everything you get in The Flash package: action, drama and a whole lot of science!Our season opener deals with the backlash of the last season’s finale, where we saw the tragic death(?) of Nora Allen, […]
2019 BFI London Film Festival Review – Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound
Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound, 2019.Directed by Midge Costin. Starring Walter Murch, Ben Burtt, Steven Spielberg, David Lynch, Sofia Coppola, and Ryan Coogler.SYNOPSIS:An exploration of the history, artistry, and emotional power of cinema sound, as revealed by legendary sound designers and visionary directors, via interviews, clips from movies, and a look at their […]
2019 BFI London Film Festival Review – Rewind
Rewind, 2019.Directed by Sasha Joseph Neulinger. Starring Sasha Joseph Neulinger.SYNOPSIS:Digging through the vast collection of his father’s home videos, a young man reconstructs the unthinkable story of his boyhood and exposes vile abuse passed through generations.Is there a more noble use of filmmaking, especially the documentary form, than to lay one’s own suffering bare in […]
2019 BFI London Film Festival Review – A White, White Day
A White, White Day, 2019.Written and directed by Hlynur Pálmason. Starring Ingvar E Sigurðsson and Ída Mekkín Hlynsdóttir.SYNOPSIS:In a remote Icelandic town, an off duty police chief begins to suspect a local man for having had an affair with his wife, who recently died in a car accident. Gradually his obsession for finding out the […]
Black Lightning Season 3 Premiere Review – “The Book of Occupation: Chapter One: Birth of Blackbird”
Red Stewart reviews the season 3 premiere of Black Lightning…I’ve been trying to wrap my head around what exactly it is I just watched on TV last night. The thing that aired was supposedly the season 3 premiere of Black Lightning, yet to call it anything resembling good writing would be to drop the standards […]
Movie Review – Holiday Hell (2019)
Holiday Hell, 2019.Directed by Jeremy Berg, David Burns, Jeff Ferrell, and Jeff Vigil. Starring Jeffrey Combs, Joel Murray, Jeff Bryan Davis, Lisa Coronado, and Meagan Karimi-Nase.SYNOPSIS:On Christmas Eve, a woman enters a shop looking for a last-minute gift. She meets a mysterious shopkeeper (Combs) who tells her the horrific stories behind four objects in the […]
October Horrors 2019 Day 8 – Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
Bride of Frankenstein, 2019.Directed by James Whale Starring Boris Karloff, Colin Clive, Elsa Lancaster and Ernest Thesiger.SYNOPSIS:After his original creation has run amok, Dr Henry Frankenstein is recruited by his old mentor Dr Pretorius to collaborate on a horrific new creation; a bride for the monster.If there is one thing horror films or any kind […]
2019 BFI London Film Festival Review – Honey Boy
Honey Boy, 2019.Directed by Alma Har’el. Starring Shia LaBeouf, Lucas Hedges, and Noah Jupe.SYNOPSIS:A young actor’s stormy childhood and early adult years as he struggles to reconcile with his father and deal with his mental health.Braced somewhere between film-as-therapy and surreal performance-art project, Honey Boy is a Shia LaBeouf-penned collaboration with Alma Har’el (Bombay Beach), not-so-loosely […]
Blu-ray Review – Rabid (2019)
Rabid, 2019.Directed by The Soska Sisters. Starring Laura Vandervoort, Stephen Huszar, Greg Bryk, C.M. Punk, Lynn Lowry, and Ted Atherton.SYNOPSIS:A woman involved in a traffic accident has facial reconstruction surgery, with some icky results.It has been said before that anybody remaking a David Cronenberg film is incredibly brave, such is the stamp that the filmmaker […]
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