The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, 2018. Directed by Ethan Coen & Joel Coen. Starring Tim Blake Nelson, Liam Neeson, Brendan Gleeson, Tom Waits, Harry Melling, Zoe Kazan, James Franco, Bill Heck, Grainger Hines, Chelcie Ross, and Jonjo O’Neill. SYNOPSIS: A collection of six Western-style shorts set out on the frontier, taking in stories of a […]
2018 BFI London Film Festival Review – Nancy
Nancy, 2018. Directed by Christina Choe. Starring Andrea Riseborough, J. Smith-Cameron, Ann Dowd, John Leguizamo, and Steve Buscemi. SYNOPSIS: Nancy becomes increasingly convinced she was kidnapped as a child. When she meets a couple whose daughter went missing thirty years ago, reasonable doubts give way to wilful belief. Andrea Riseborough adds yet another towering performance to […]
DVD Review – Thelma Todd & Zasu Pitts: The Hal Roach Collection 1931-33
Thelma Todd & Zasu Pitts: The Hal Roach Collection 1931-33 Directed by Hal Roach, Marshall Neilan, George Marshall, Gus Meins, and others. Starring Thelma Todd and Zasu Pitts. SYNOPSIS: Thelma Todd and Zasu Pitts are a comedy duo in these seventeen, pre-code shorts from Hal Roach. A little over two years ago Turner Classic Movies […]
2018 BFI London Film Festival Review – Happy New Year, Colin Burstead.
Happy New Year, Colin Burstead., 2018. Directed by Ben Wheatley. Starring Neil Maskell, Bill Paterson, Doon Mackichan, Charles Dance, Sam Riley, Joe Cole, Hayley Squires, Alexandra Maria Lara, Richard Glover, Asim Chaudhry, Sarah Baxendale, Mark Monero, Peter Ferdinando, Sinead Matthews, Sura Dohnke, Sudha Bhuchar and Vincent Ebrahim. SYNOPSIS: Colin hires a lavish country manor for […]
Comic Book Review – Transformers: Lost Light #24
Ricky Church reviews Transformers: Lost Light #24… The penultimate issue of Transformers: Lost Light is here and holds nothing back as Rodimus, Ultra Magnus, Megatron and the crew of the Lost Light put together one desperate plan to destroy the Functionalists and their massive Cybertron. It’s a fast paced issue that has James Roberts firing on all […]
October Horrors 2018 Day 12 – [REC] (2007)
[REC], 2007. Directed by Jaume Balaguero and Paco Plaza. Starring Manuela Velasco, Pablo Rosso, Ferran Terraza, David Vert, and Javier Botet. SYNOPSIS: TV presenter Angela Vidal is accompanying a crew of a Barcelona Fire station as part of a television documentary. When the crew is called to what appears to be a routine rescue in […]
2018 BFI London Film Festival Review – Utøya – July 22
Utøya – July 22, 2018. Directed by Erik Poppe. Starring Andrea Berntzen, Aleksander Holmen, and Solveig Koløen Birkeland. SYNOPSIS: After detonating a bomb in a government building on 22 July 2011, far-right terrorist Anders Behring Breivik took his murderous attack to the heart of Norway: a summer camp on Utøya island. With the victims unable to escape, […]
Movie Review – Sink (2018)
Sink, 2018. Written and directed by Mark Gillis. Starring Martin Herdman, Ian Hogg, Josh Herdman, Tracey Wilkinson, Marlene Sidaway, Mark Gillis and Sadie Shimmin. SYNOPSIS: A factory worker is hit with the double whammy of losing his job and being forced to care for his dementia-suffering father when the care home in which he has […]
Black Lightning Season 2 Episode 1 Review – ‘The Book of Consequences: Chapter One: Rise of the Green Light Babies’
Red Stewart reviews the season 2 premiere of Black Lightning… I don’t think I’ve ever seen a superhero show as eager to rush to a series finale as Black Lightning. The Arrowverse as a whole has gained notoriety for hurrying through interesting plot lines only to suffer from filler down the line (The Flash moving through “Flashpoint” in […]
2018 BFI London Film Festival Review – Ash Is Purest White
Ash Is Purest White, 2018. Directed by Jia Zhangke. Starring Zhao Tao and Liao Fan. SYNOPSIS: A story of violent love within a time frame spanning from 2001 to 2017. The latest epic drama from revered Chinese director Jia Zhangke (A Touch of Sin, Mountains May Depart) feels less-assured than his prior efforts while also raking over similar […]
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