180 Degree Rule, 2020. Directed by Farnoosh Samadi. Starring Sahar Dolatshahi, Pejman Jamshidi, Hassan Pourshirazi and Mohammad Heidari. SYNOPSIS: In the wake of a traumatic event, a mother becomes trapped in a rapidly unravelling web of deceit. Everyone does strange things in the wake of trauma. That’s something with which we can all sympathise. And […]
Movie Review – Farewell Amor (2020)
Farewell Amor, 2020. Directed by Ekwa Msangi. Starring Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine, Zainab Jah, Jayme Lawson, Nana Mensah, Marcus Scribner and Joie Lee. SYNOPSIS: Seventeen years after he moved from Angola to New York City, a man is joined by his wife and daughter, only to discover that all three of them have changed dramatically […]
2020 BFI London Film Festival Review – I Am Samuel
I Am Samuel, 2020. Directed by Pete Murimi. SYNOPSIS: A gay couple in Kenya deal with the fact their relationship is illegal, as well as their disapproving families. “This is Alex. I am Sammy. Alex is the love of my life.” So opens Kenyan documentary I Am Samuel, without a “can I make it any […]
2020 BFI London Film Festival Review – Siberia
Siberia, 2020. Directed by Abel Ferrara. Starring Willem Dafoe, Cristina Chiriac, Dounia Sichov and Simon McBurney. SYNOPSIS: A man who abandoned his whole life to tend bar in Siberia embarks on a voyage of self-discovery when he visits a strange cave. Few people do narration like Willem Dafoe. That distinctive, unsettling voice has provided a […]
2020 BFI London Film Festival Review – Mangrove
Mangrove, 2020. Directed by Steve McQueen. Starring Shaun Parkes, Letitia Wright, Malachi Kirby, Rochenda Sandall, Sam Spruell, Jack Lowden and Alex Jennings. SYNOPSIS: In 1970s London, police harassment of a crucial community hub for local Black people leads to a peaceful protest, which ends up in a court room. Steve McQueen is effectively a lucky […]
Movie Review – Saint Maud (2019)
Saint Maud, 2019. Directed by Rose Glass. Starring Morfydd Clark, Jennifer Ehle, Lily Frazer, Lily Knight, Rosie Sansom and Turlough Convery. SYNOPSIS: After recently finding religion, a nurse tries to put her past aside as she becomes the full-time carer of a terminally ill woman. It has been a long old journey to the UK […]
Movie Review – Miss Juneteenth (2020)
Miss Juneteenth, 2020. Directed by Channing Godfrey Peoples. Starring Nicole Beharie, Alexis Chikaeze, Kendrick Sampson, Akron Watson, Marcus Mauldin, Liz Mikel and Lori Hayes. SYNOPSIS: A former beauty pageant winner tries to help her daughter win the same title, 15 years later. Juneteenth is an annual celebration in the USA to mark the 19th June […]
Movie Review – Secret Society of Second-Born Royals (2020)
Secret Society of Second-Born Royals, 2020. Directed by Anna Mastro. Starring Peyton Elizabeth Lee, Noah Lomax, Isabella Blake-Thomas, Niles Fitch, Olivia Deeble, Faly Rakotohavana, Skylar Astin, Élodie Yung, Ashley Liao and Greg Bryk. SYNOPSIS: The teenage second children of various royals discover that their birth status has presented them with super-powers and that they have […]
Movie Review – First Man (2018)
First Man, 2018. Directed by Damien Chazelle. Starring Ryan Gosling, Claire Foy, Jason Clarke, Kyle Chandler, Patrick Fugit, Ciaran Hinds, Ethan Embry, Olivia Hamilton, Shea Whigham, Corey Stoll, and Pablo Schreiber. SYNOPSIS: The story of Neil Armstrong, who would become the first man to talk on the moon, and the NASA scientists that helped him […]
Movie Review – Rocks (2019)
Rocks, 2019. Directed by Sarah Gavron. Starring Bukky Bakray, D’angelou Osei Kissiedu, Kosar Ali, Shaneigha-Monik Greyson, Tawheda Begum, Ruby Stokes and Sarah Niles. SYNOPSIS: When her mother disappears without warning, a teenage girl and her younger brother take to the streets in order to avoid the care system. One of the bright spots of this […]
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