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Movie Review – Happy New Year, Colin Burstead (2018)

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Happy New Year, Colin Burstead, 2018. Directed by Ben Wheatley. Starring Neil Maskell, Hayley Squires, Sam Riley, Charles Dance and Joe Cole. SYNOPSIS: Colin hires a lavish country manor for his extended family to celebrate New Year. Unfortunately for Colin his position of power in the family is under serious threat from the arrival of his […]

2018 BFI London Film Festival Review – Happy as Lazzaro

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Happy as Lazzaro, 2018. Directed by Alice Rohrwacher. Starring Adriano Tardiolo, Sergi Lopez and Alba Rohrwacher. SYNOPSIS: The tale of a meeting between Lazzaro, a young peasant so good that he is often mistaken for simple-minded, and Tancredi, a young nobleman cursed by his imagination. Life in their isolated pastoral village Inviolata is dominated by the […]

The Flash Season 5 Episode 2 Review – ‘Blocked’

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Jessie Robertson reviews the second episode of The Flash season 5… The Flash season premiere was pretty darn Schway!: Let’s check out episode 2… What I Enjoyed This Week: – Are we getting the big bad early this season? His opening introduction was…intriguing, it looks like he’s just a regular guy with a very irregular […]

2018 BFI London Film Festival Review – Bisbee ’17

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Bisbee ’17, 2018. Directed by Robert Greene. SYNOPSIS: An old mining town on the Arizona-Mexico border finally reckons with its darkest day: the deportation of 1200 immigrant miners exactly 100 years ago. Locals collaborate to stage recreations of their controversial past. Robert Greene (Kate Plays Christine) serves up a powerful jolt to the conscience with this […]

Beyond Fest 2018 Review – Border

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Border, 2018. Directed by Ali Abbasi. Starring Eva Melander, Eero Milonoff, Jörgen Thorsson, Ann Petrén, Sten Ljunggren, Kjell Wilhelmsen, and Matti Boustedt. SYNOPSIS: A customs officer who can smell fear develops an unusual attraction to a strange traveler while aiding a police investigation, which will call into question her entire existence. Border opens with Tina, […]

2018 BFI London Film Festival Review – The Man Who Killed Don Quixote

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The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, 2018. Directed by Terry Gilliam. Starring Adam Driver, Jonathan Pryce, Stellan Skarsgård, Olga Kurylenko, and Joana Ribeiro. SYNOPSIS: Toby, a disillusioned advertising executive, becomes pulled into a world of time jumping fantasy when a Spanish cobbler believes him to be Sancho Panza. He gradually becomes unable to tell dreams from […]

2018 BFI London Film Festival Review – Suspiria

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Suspiria, 2018. Directed by Luca Guadagnino. Starring Dakota Johnson, Tilda Swinton, Doris Hick, Angela Winkler, Mia Goth, Elena Fokina, and Chloë Grace Moretz. SYNOPSIS: Against the backdrop of political turmoil in 70s Berlin, a world renowned dance company can be found within a stones throw from the wall. It’s run by the notorious Madame Blanc (Tilda Swinton), […]

October Horrors 2018 Day 16: Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982)

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Halloween III: Season of the Witch, 1982. Directed by Tommy Lee Wallace. Starring Tom Atkins, Stacey Nelkin, Dan O’Herlihy, Michael Currie, and Ralph Strait. SYNOPSIS: Halloween is fast approaching when Dr Daniel Challis is witnesses a mysterious murder/suicide at the hospital in which he works. Following the victims’ final words, Challis and Ellie Grimbridge, the […]

Movie Review – Fahrenheit 11/9 (2018)

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Fahrenheit 11/9, 2018. Directed by Michael Moore. SYNOPSIS: Travelling across America, Moore interviews citizens under the Trump administration, to get a sense of the social, economic and political impact of Trump’s victory, as well as an in-depth look at the media, the Electoral College, the government agenda and his hometown of Flint, Michigan. In rhyme […]