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Mortal Engines New York Comic Con first 25 minutes description and review

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The New York Comic Con crowd in attendance at Universal’s Mortal Engines panel were among the first people on the planet to be treated to the opening 25 minutes of the upcoming Peter Jackson-produced film adaptation of Philip Reeve’s 2001 young adult novel.  Although the panel’s official description claimed that only the first eight minutes […]

2018 BFI London Film Festival Review – Lizzie

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Lizzie, 2018. Directed by Craig William Macneill. Starring Chloë Sevigny, Kristen Stewart, Jay Huguley, Jamey Sheridan, Fiona Shaw, Kim Dickens, Denis O’Hare, and Jeff Perry. SYNOPSIS: A psychological thriller based on the infamous 1892 murders of the Borden family. Craig William Macneill’s (The Boy) Lizzie Borden biopic couldn’t be further from prior campy adaptations of the […]

2018 BFI London Film Festival Review – The Breaker Upperers

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The Breaker Upperers, 2018. Directed by Madeleine Sami and Jackie van Beek. Starring Madeleine Sami, Jackie van Beek, James Rolleston, Celia Pacquola, and Ana Scotney. SYNOPSIS: Two professional cynics, Jen (Jackie van Beek) and Mel (Madeleine Sami), run an agency where they offer their unique talents in breaking up couples so that the individual can move on […]

2018 BFI London Film Festival Review – Sorry to Bother You

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Sorry to Bother You, 2018. Directed by Boots Riley. Starring Lakeith Stanfield, Tessa Thompson, Jermaine Fowler, Omari Hardwick, Terry Crews, Patton Oswalt, David Cross, Danny Glover, Steven Yeun and Armie Hammer. SYNOPSIS: In an alternate present-day version of Oakland, telemarketer Cassius Green discovers a magical key to professional success, propelling him into a universe of greed. […]

2018 BFI London Film Festival Review – Girl

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Girl, 2018. Directed by Lukas Dhont. Starring Victor Polster, Arieh Worthalter, Oliver Bodart, Tijmen Govaerts, Valentijn Dhaenens and Katelijne Damen. SYNOPSIS:  Fifteen-year-old Lara’s transitioning is further complicated by her pursuit of a professional career in ballet at a prestigious Belgian dance academy. Written and directed by Lukas Dhont, and in the running in the first […]

2018 BFI London Film Festival Review – The Guilty

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The Guilty, 2018. Directed by Gustav Möller. Starring Jakob Cedergren, Jessica Dinnage, and Johan Olsen. SYNOPSIS: A police officer assigned alarm dispatch duty enters a race against time when he answers an emergency call from a kidnapped woman. The Danish entry into the upcoming race for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar is a tight, unpretentious low-budget […]

2018 BFI London Film Festival Review – Evelyn

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Evelyn, 2018. Directed by Orlando von Einsiedel. SYNOPSIS: When his brother, newly diagnosed as schizophrenic and suffering from intense depression, took his own life at 22, Orlando and his other two siblings buried the trauma, rarely talking about it. Over a decade later, the remaining family set out on a hiking tour, visiting landscapes Evelyn liked […]

SXSW Movie Review – Brother’s Nest (2018)

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Brother’s Nest, 2018. Directed by Clayton Jacobson. Starring Shane Jacobson, Clayton Jacobson, Kim Gyngell, Lynette Curran, Sarah Snook SYNOPSIS: With their Mother dying of cancer, intent on changing her will to benefit her new husband before she dies, two brothers go to extreme and deadly lengths to protect their inheritance from being signed away before […]

2018 BFI London Film Festival Review – Widows

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Widows, 2018. Directed by Steve McQueen. Starring Viola Davis, Liam Neeson, Elizabeth Debicki, Michelle Rodriguez, Daniel Kaluuya,  Colin Farrell, Cynthia Erivo, Brian Tyree Henry, Jacki Weaver, Carrie Coon, Liam Neeson, Robert Duvall, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, John Bernthal, Garret Dillahunt and Lukas Haas. SYNOPSIS: When her husband is killed in a robbery gone wrong, Veronica Rawlings must […]