The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, 1974. Directed by Tobe Hooper. Starring Marilyn Burns, Paul A. Partain, Edwin Neal, Jim Siedow and Gunnar Hansen. SYNOPSIS: While on a road trip through Texas, a group of friend stumble upon an isolated farmhouse that houses a horrific secret. The teens soon find themselves at the mercy of a […]
2018 BFI London Film Festival Review – Destroyer
Destroyer, 2018. Directed by Karyn Kusama. Starring Nicole Kidman, Sebastian Stan, Toby Kebbell, Tatiana Maslany, Scoot McNairy, Bradley Whitford, and James Jordan. SYNOPSIS: Whilst a young LAPD detective, Erin Bell (Nicole Kidman) was sent undercover with her partner Chris (Sebastian Stan) to infiltrate a crime gang headed up by the messianic Silas (Toby Kebbell). Almost […]
Movie Review – Wildlife (2018)
Wildlife, 2018. Directed by Paul Dano. Starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Carey Mulligan, Ed Oxenbould, Bill Camp, and Zoe Margaret Colletti. SYNOPSIS: As a forest fire rages through rural America, Joe Brinson (Ed Oxenbould) must watch his parent’s relationship start to crumble, with his father (Jake Gyllenhaal) struggling to find work, and his mother (Carey Mulligan) becoming […]
Movie Review – The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018)
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, 2018. Directed by Joel and Ethan 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: Six stories make up Joel and Ethan Coen’s Western anthology epic, taking in everything from singing cowboys, gold […]
2018 BFI London Film Festival Review – Won’t You Be My Neighbor?
Won’t You Be My Neighbor?, 2018. Directed by Morgan Neville. Featuring Joanne Rogers, François Clemmons, Yo-Yo Ma, and Joe Negri. SYNOPSIS: An exploration of the life, lessons, and legacy of iconic children’s television host, Fred Rogers. Though legendary children’s TV personality Fred Rogers may not be especially well-known to British audiences, his cultural reach is […]
October Horrors 2018 Day 14 – Get Out (2017)
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 […]
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