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 […]
2018 BFI London Film Festival Review – Lizzie
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 – Sorry to Bother You
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 – The Guilty
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
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 […]
2018 BFI London Film Festival Review – Thunder Road
Thunder Road, 2018. Directed by Jim Cummings. Starring Jim Cummings, Kendal Farr, and Nican Robinson. SYNOPSIS: A police officer comes to grips with a death of his mom when giving a heartfelt eulogy at her funeral. If there’s any justice in the world, Jim Cummings will enjoy a prosperous career boost off the back of […]
2018 BFI London Film Festival Review – The Bill Murray Stories: Life Lessons Learned from a Mythical Man
The Bill Murray Stories: Life Lessons Learned from a Mythical Man, 2018. Directed by Tommy Avallone. Starring Tommy Avallone and Bill Murray. SYNOPSIS: This documentary explores various urban legends around Hollywood’s most elusive star. If you’ve ever bothered to Google Bill Murray, you’ll probably be aware that he has a penchant for showing up in unexpected […]
Movie Review – Death Kiss (2018)
Death Kiss, 2018. Directed by Rene Perez. Featuring Robert Kovacs Bronzi, Daniel Baldwin, Richard Tyson, and Eva Hamilton. SYNOPSIS: A vigilante doles out his own brand of justice. I suspect most of the people who decide to watch Death Kiss will do so out of nothing more than mild, morbid curiosity. The effort of writer-director-cinematographer-composer Rene […]
Video Game Review – Transference
Shaun Munro reviews Transference… Transference is without question one of the year’s most anticipated VR titles, having been first announced back at E3 2017 as the latest project from the Elijah Wood-founded cross-media production company SpectreVision. Though this sinewy psychological thriller may prove both disappointingly brief and overtly obtuse for some headset owners, as an exercise in […]
Second Opinion – The House with a Clock in Its Walls (2018)
The House with a Clock in Its Walls, 2018. Directed by Eli Roth. Starring Jack Black, Cate Blanchett, Owen Vaccaro, Renée Elise Goldsberry, Sunny Suljic and Kyle MacLachlan. SYNOPSIS: A young orphan named Lewis Barnavelt aids his magical uncle in locating a clock with the power to bring about the end of the world. Schlock-horror maestro […]
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