Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, 2019. Directed by André Øvredal. Starring Zoe Colletti, Michael Garza, Austin Zajur, Austin Abrams, Gabriel Rush, Natalie Ganzhorn, Dean Norris and Javier Botet. SYNOPSIS: A group of teenagers are pursued by various supernatural beasties when they uncover an old book from a haunted house. The importance of gateway […]
Movie Review – Crawl (2019)
Crawl, 2019. Directed by Alexandre Aja. Starring Kaya Scodelario, Barry Pepper, Morfydd Clark and Ross Anderson. SYNOPSIS: A young woman attempting to rescue her injured father from his house in the middle of a hurricane finds herself terrorised by aggressive alligators. Crocodiles and alligators are great. Movies about them, however, are often not. There’s very […]
Movie Review – JT LeRoy (2018)
JT LeRoy, 2018. Directed by Justin Kelly. Starring Kristen Stewart, Laura Dern, Diane Kruger, Jim Sturgess, Kelvin Harrison Jr. and Courtney Love. SYNOPSIS: The true story of the literary phenomenon, who was actually not a troubled young man, but a middle-aged woman working with the aid of her partner’s androgynous sister. The story of JT […]
Sundance London 2019 Review – The Last Tree
The Last Tree, 2019. Directed by Shola Amoo. Starring Sam Adewumni, Gbemisola Ikumelo, Demmy Ladipo, Ruthxjiah Bellenea, Tai Golding, Denise Black and Nicholas Pinnock. SYNOPSIS: A Nigerian-British boy is taken from a comfortable rural foster home to live with his biological mother in the city, bringing about an identity crisis that reverberates into his teenage […]
Movie Review – The Angry Birds Movie 2 (2019)
The Angry Birds Movie 2, 2019. Directed by Thurop Van Orman. Starring Jason Sudeikis, Josh Gad, Danny McBride, Rachel Bloom, Bill Hader, Leslie Jones, Awkwafina, Sterling K Brown, Peter Dinklage and Tiffany Haddish. SYNOPSIS: The birds and pigs put their differences aside in order to take on the threat posed by an icy third island, […]
Movie Review – Photograph (2019)
Photograph, 2019. Directed by Ritesh Batra. Starring Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Sanya Malhotra and Farrukh Jaffar. SYNOPSIS: A Mumbai street photographer asks a customer to pose as his fiancée when his over-bearing grandmother comes to visit. Humble is very much the word to describe Ritesh Batra’s Photograph. It’s a humble, unassuming movie about humble, unassuming people, set […]
Movie Review – My Friend the Polish Girl (2018)
My Friend the Polish Girl, 2018. Directed by Ewa Banaszkiewicz and Mateusz Dymek. Starring Aneta Piotrowska, Emma Friedman-Cohen, Daniel Barry, Max Davis and Darren Ross. SYNOPSIS: A documentary filmmaker becomes involved in the life of a Polish immigrant to the UK, as she attempts to pursue an acting career. My Friend the Polish Girl is […]
Movie Review – The Current War (2017)
The Current War, 2017. Directed by Alfonso Gomez-Rejon. Starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Michael Shannon, Nicholas Hoult, Tom Holland, Katherine Waterston and Tuppence Middleton. SYNOPSIS: As the possibility of electric lighting in the home becomes a real thing, warring entrepreneurs Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse battle to become the leading provider of electricity in the USA and, […]
Exclusive Interview – The Angry Birds Movie 2 producer John Cohen on smartphone games, Thanos and Baby Shark
Tom Beasley sits down with John Cohen, producer of The Angry Birds Movie 2, to discuss a film that tries to step away from its smartphone game subject matter… There was a great deal of cynicism around the release of The Angry Birds Movie in 2016 but, with more than $350m at the global box […]
Movie Review – Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love (2019)
Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love, 2019. Directed by Nick Broomfield. Starring Marianne Ihlen, Leonard Cohen and Nick Broomfield. SYNOPSIS: The story of the relationship between musician Leonard Cohen and his long-time muse Marianne Ihlen. The artists of the 1960s lived very differently to the artists of today. Now, a struggling writer is far more […]
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