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2019 BFI London Film Festival Review – The Personal History of David Copperfield

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The Personal History of David Copperfield, 2019.Directed by Armando Iannucci. Starring Dev Patel, Ben Whishaw, Hugh Laurie, Nikki Amuka-Bird, Peter Capaldi, Rosalind Eleazar, and Tilda Swinton.SYNOPSIS:A haunting semi-autobiographical tale of a boy who is sent away by his stepfather after his mother dies but manages to triumph over incredible adversities. Set in the 1840s, chronicling […]

October Horrors 2019 Day 2 – Blood and Black Lace (1964)

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Blood and Black Lace, 1964.Directed by Mario Bava. Starring Eva Bartok, Cameron Mitchell, Thomas Reiner, Arianna Gorini and Mary Marden.SYNOPSIS:After a model is brutally murdered by a masked killer, a fashion house becomes the centre of a mystery as police and the house’s staff try to figure out who among them lurks behind the mask.As […]

2019 BFI London Film Festival Review – Ghost Town Anthology

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Ghost Town Anthology, 2019.Directed by Denis Côté. Starring Robert Naylor, Josée Deschênes, Jean-Michel Anctil, Diane Lavallée and Larissa Corriveau.SYNOPSIS:An isolated rural community is locked in a fugue of grief after the potential suicide of one of its residents.Grief is one of the most intimate human emotions. It’s deeply private and intensely powerful. In Ghost Town […]

2019 BFI London Film Festival Review – Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project

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Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project, 2019.Directed by Matt Wolf.SYNOPSIS:A Philadelphia librarian-turned-activist secretly recorded television 24-hours a day for 30 years.In November of 1979, Marion Stokes pressed the record button on her television set and didn’t stop until her death in December, 2012. In that time, she amassed hundreds of thousands of hours of footage, capturing […]

Netflix Review – The Spy

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Hasitha Fernando reviews The Spy…In this latest spy thriller that dropped from Netflix, Sacha Baron Cohen plays the main role as newly recruited Mossad spy Eli Cohen and boy, is he something or what. In fact, if I were to sum up my review succinctly in three words it would be; Sacha Baron Cohen. The […]

2019 BFI London Film Festival Review – Öndög

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Öndög, 2019.Directed by Wang Quan’an. Starring Dulamjav Enkhtaivan, Aorigeletu, Norovsambuu Batmunkh, and Gangtemuer Arild.SYNOPSIS:A murder case in the Mongolian steppe. A herder is asked to guard the crime scene – a woman who resolutely scares off both wolves and her neighbor. She has her own plans for the future, which are closely linked to the […]

October Horrors 2019 Day 1 – Frankenstein (1931)

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Frankenstein, 1931.Directed by James Whale. Starring Colin Clive, Mae Clarke, John Boles, Edward Van Sloan, Fredrick Kerr and Boris Karloff.SYNOPSIS:Eager to solve the mysteries of life and death, Dr Henry Frankenstein embarks upon a controversial experiment in which he will implant a human brain into a freshly constructed body and use electricity to bring it […]

Fantastic Fest 2019 Review – The Pool

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The Pool, 2018.Written and directed by Ping Lumpraploeng. Starring Theeradej Wongpuapan and Ratnamon Ratchiratham.SYNOPSIS:In an abandoned 6-meter deep pool, a couple is stranded there with a deadly predator.Sometimes all it takes is a simple premise, a single location, and a crocodile to sell you on a movie. Sure, a good story would be good, some […]

Movie Review – Joker (2019)

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Joker, 2019.Directed by Todd Phillips. Starring Joaquin Phoenix, Zazie Beetz, Frances Conroy, Robert De Niro, Marc Maron, and Brett Cullen.SYNOPSIS:Forever alone in a crowd, failed comedian Arthur Fleck seeks connection as he walks the streets of Gotham City. Isolated, bullied and disregarded by society, Fleck begins a slow descent into madness as he transforms into […]