Get Out, 2017. Directed by Jordan Peele. Starring Daniel Kaluuya, Allison Williams, Bradley Whitford, Caleb Landry Jones, Catherine Keener, Lil Rel Howery, Betty Gabriel, Marcus Hendereson, Lakeith Stanfield, and Stephen Root. SYNOPSIS: Chris, a young black photographer, is anxious about meeting the parents of his white girlfriend Rose, worried about the reception he will receive, […]
Movie Review – Venom (2018)
Venom, 2018. Directed by Ruben Fleischer. Starring Tom Hardy, Michelle Williams, Riz Ahmed, Jenny Slate, Scott Haze, Michelle Lee, Sope Aluko, Reid Scott, Sam Medina, Jared Bankens, Wayne Pére, and Woody Harrelson. Synopsis When Eddie Brock acquires the powers of a symbiote, he will have to release his alter-ego “Venom” to save his life. Venom’s […]
2018 BFI London Film Festival Review – Beautiful Boy
Beautiful Boy, 2018. Directed by Felix Van Groeningen. Starring Steve Carell, Timothée Chalamet, Maura Tierney, Kaitlyn Dever, Amy Ryan, and Andre Royo. SYNOPSIS: Using the best-selling father and son memoirs of David (Steve Carell) and Nic Shiff (Timothée Chalamet), Beautiful Boy charts the traumatic experiences of a family dealing with a debilitating addiction that nobody really understands. Drug culture […]
Movie Review – Utøya – July 22 (2018)
Utøya – July 22, 2018. Directed by Erik Poppe. Starring Andrea Berntzen. SYNOPSIS: A teenage girl struggles to survive and to find her younger sister during the July 2011 terrorist mass murder at a political summer camp on the Norwegian island of Utøya. Though it premieres at the LFF mere days after Paul Greengrass’ own dramatisation […]
2018 BFI London Film Festival Review – The Plan That Came from the Bottom Up
The Plan That Came from the Bottom Up, 2018. Directed by Steve Sprung. SYNOPSIS : A visual essay/documentary film about a 1970’s arms company going bust where threatened workers came up with dynamic new products, including heat pumps, wind turbines and an energy saving house. The Plan That Came from the Bottom Up is an […]
2018 BFI London Film Festival Review – Dogman
Dogman, 2018. Directed by Matteo Garrone. Starring Marcello Fonte and Edoardo Pesce. SYNOPSIS: Marcello, a small and gentle dog groomer, finds himself involved in a dangerous relationship of subjugation with Simone, a former violent boxer who terrorises the entire neighbourhood. In an effort to reaffirm his dignity, Marcello will submit to an unexpected act of vengeance. The […]
Movie Review – Sorry to Bother You (2018)
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 version of current-day Oakland, California, Cassius Green discovers a gift that helps him rapidly succeed in his new role as […]
October Horrors 2018 Day 13 – Annabelle (2014)
Annabelle, 2014. Directed by John R. Leonetti. Starring Annabelle Wallis, Ward Horton, Tony Amendola and Alfre Woodard. SYNOPSIS: In 1967, new parents Mia and John Form, after surviving a violent encounter with a pair of murderous cult members and losing their house to a fire, find themselves being haunted by a supernatural entity that appears […]
Doctor Who Series 11 Episode 2 Review – ‘The Ghost Monument’
Villordsutch reviews Doctor Who – ‘The Ghost Monument’… Directed by – Mark Tonderai Written by – Chris Chibnall Doctor – “Oh! You’ve redecorated…” With last week’s whirlwind introductions completed, we witnessed the Doctor (Jodie Whittaker) gathering up her new companions (or is that new best friends?) then rather unceremoniously depositing them in space, sans TARDIS […]
2018 BFI London Film Festival Review – Wildlife
Wildlife, 2018. Directed by Paul Dano. Starring Carey Mulligan, Jake Gyllenhaal, Ed Oxenbould and Bill Camp. SYNOPSIS: A boy witnesses his parents’ marriage falling apart after his mother finds another man. Paul Dano makes a staggering debut with this emotionally charged adaptation of Richard Ford’s 1990 novel, a meticulously assembled drama about family, masculinity and female agency […]
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