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 horror for young audience […]
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 little love for Lake […]
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 LeRoy is a truly […]
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 years.From its earliest […]
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, which plays host […]
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 amidst the chaotic bustle […]
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 an incredibly interesting film […]
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, by extension, the […]
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 office, […]
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 likely to post a […]
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