Flash Gordon (Special 40th Anniversary Restoration), 1980. Directed by Mike Hodges. Starring Sam J. Jones, Melody Anderson, Max von Sydow, Brian Blessed, Timothy Dalton, Ornella Muti, Topol, Peter Wyngarde and Richard O’Brien. SYNOPSIS: A football player and a travel agent find themselves facing the wrath of an alien warlord, with the fate of the Earth […]
Movie Review – Summerland (2020)
Summerland, 2020. Directed by Jessica Swale. Starring Gemma Arterton, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Lucas Bond, Dixie Egerickx, Tom Courtenay and Penelope Wilton. SYNOPSIS: A reclusive writer in 1940s Kent delves back into her past when her emotional side is awakened by an evacuee boy forced into her care. There’s nothing the British movie industry loves more than […]
A Woman Under the Influence with filmmaker Xinyi Zhu | The Pick of the Flicks Podcast #89
On The Pick of the Flicks Podcast, a different guest drops in every week to chat about their favourite film. This week, filmmaker Xinyi Zhu discusses the ground-breaking work of John Cassavetes in A Woman Under the Influence… On this week’s episode of The Pick of the Flicks Podcast, Xinyi Zhu talks about her new […]
Movie Review – Make Up (2019)
Make Up, 2019. Directed by Claire Oakley. Starring Molly Windsor, Joseph Quinn, Stefanie Martini, Theo Barklem-Biggs and Lisa Palfrey. SYNOPSIS: A young woman travels down to Cornwall to live with her boyfriend at the holiday park where he works, but begins to suspect he has been cheating on her. There’s something inherently strange about a […]
Movie Review – Last and First Men (2020)
Last and First Men, 2020. Directed by Jóhann Jóhannsson. Starring Tilda Swinton. SYNOPSIS: A message from billions of years in the future, alerting humanity to its ultimate extinction. “Listen patiently,” intones the other-worldly voice over of Tilda Swinton. “We who are the last men earnestly desire to communicate with you.” As she speaks, the camera […]
Movie Review – Yes, God, Yes (2019)
Yes God Yes, 2019. Directed by Karen Maine. Starring Natalia Dyer, Timothy Simons, Francesca Reale, Wolfgang Novogratz, Alisha Boe, Parker Wierling, Donna Lynne Champlin and Susan Blackwell. SYNOPSIS: A Catholic schoolgirl discovers her own sexual identity and the twisted morals of others at a weekend retreat. Turn of the century Catholic school is proving to […]
Movie Review – The Rifleman (2019)
The Rifleman, 2019. Directed by Dzintars Dreibergs. Starring Oto Brantevics, Raimonds Celms, Martins Vilsons, Jekabs Reinis, Gatis Gaga, Renars Zeltins and Greta Trusina. SYNOPSIS: When his mother is gunned down by German soldiers, a Latvian teenager enlists to fight on the frontline of the First World War under the command of his military veteran father. […]
Movie Review – Saint Frances (2019)
Saint Frances, 2019. Directed by Alex Thompson. Starring Kelly O’Sullivan, Charin Alvarez, Lily Mojekwu, Max Lipchitz, Jim True-Frost and Ramona Edith Williams. SYNOPSIS: In the aftermath of having an abortion, a woman becomes the nanny for a precocious six-year-old. One of the most refreshing elements of the brilliant recent BBC drama I May Destroy You […]
Movie Review – Stage Mother (2020)
Stage Mother, 2020. Directed by Thom Fitzgerald. Starring Jacki Weaver, Lucy Liu, Adrian Grenier, Mya Taylor, Oscar Moreno, Allister MacDonald, Jackie Beat, Lenore Zann and Hugh Thompson. SYNOPSIS: When her drag queen son dies, a conservative Texas woman inherits the gay bar he owned with his boyfriend. The soaring popularity of RuPaul’s Drag Race – […]
Stella Dallas with Lynn + Lucy director Fyzal Boulifa | The Pick of the Flicks Podcast #88
On The Pick of the Flicks Podcast, a different guest drops in every week to chat about their favourite film. This week, Lynn + Lucy director Fyzal Boulifa delves into 1930s melodrama with King Vidor’s classic Stella Dallas… On this week’s episode of The Pick of the Flicks Podcast, filmmaker Fyzal Boulifa discusses his terrific […]
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