Tori Brazier reviews the second episode of Sherlock series four… After the rather uneven opening episode of Sherlock series four, Sunday’s ‘The Lying Detective’ managed to provide its audience, on the whole, with what we came to expect of the show in earlier series: namely a clever and more coherent plot which, although acting as […]
Movie Review – Fanny Lye Deliver’d (2019)
Fanny Lye Deliver’d, 2019. Directed by Thomas Clay. Starring Maxine Peake, Charles Dance, Freddie Fox, Tanya Reynolds, Zak Adams, Peter McDonald, Perry Fitzpatrick and Kenneth Collard. SYNOPSIS: Set on an isolated farm in Shropshire in 1657, this is the story of Fanny Lye, a woman who learns to transcend her oppressive marriage and discover a […]
Movie Review – Silk Road (2021)
Silk Road, 2021. Written and directed by Tiller Russell.Starring Nick Robinson, Jason Clarke, Jimmi Simpson, Katie Aselton, Alexandra Shipp, Daniel David Stewart, Darrell Britt-Gibson and Lexi Rabe. SYNOPSIS: Philosophical twenty-something Ross Ulbricht creates Silk Road, a dark net website that sells drugs, while DEA agent Rick Bowden goes undercover to bring him down. Silk Road […]
Movie Review – Another Round (2020)
Another Round, 2020. Directed by Thomas Vinterberg. Starring Mads Mikkelsen, Thomas Bo Larsen, Lars Ranthe, Magnus Millang, Maria Bonnevie, Helene Reingaard Neumann, Magnus Sjørup, Silas Cornelius Van and Albert Rudbeck Lindhart. SYNOPSIS: Four friends, all high school teachers, test a theory that they will improve their lives by maintaining a constant level of alcohol in […]
Movie Review – Luxor (2020)
Luxor, 2020. Written and directed by Zeina Durra. Starring Andrea Riseborough, Karim Saleh, Shirin Redha, Michael Landes, Janie Aziz and Salima Ikram. SYNOPSIS: When British aid worker Hana returns to the ancient city of Luxor, she meets former lover Sultan. As she wanders, haunted by the familiar place, she struggles to reconcile the choices of […]
Movie Review – Mangrove (2020)
Mangrove, 2020. Directed by Steve McQueen. Starring Shaun Parkes, Letitia Wright, Malachi Kirby, Rochenda Sandall, Sam Spruell, Jack Lowden, Alex Jennings, Nathaniel Martello-White, Llewella Gideon, Gershwyn Eustache Jnr, Gary Beadle, Richie Campbell, Jumayn Hunter, Joseph Quinn, Derek Griffiths, Jodhi May, Richard Cordery, Tahj Miles and Samuel West. SYNOPSIS: Mangrove tells this true story of The […]
2020 BFI London Film Festival Review – After Love
After Love, 2020. Written and directed by Aleem Khan. Starring Joanna Scanlan, Nathalie Richard, Talid Ariss and Nasser Memarzia. SYNOPSIS: Set in the port town of Dover, Mary Hussain suddenly finds herself a widow following the unexpected death of her husband. A day after the burial, she discovers he has a secret just twenty-one miles […]
Movie Review – Undine (2020)
Undine, 2020. Written and directed by Christian Petzold.Starring Paula Beer, Franz Rogowski, Jacob Matschenz, Maryam Zaree, Anne Ratte-Polle, Julia Franz Richter, Rafael Stachowiak, José Barros and Gloria Endres de Oliveira. SYNOPSIS: Undine works as a historian lecturing on Berlin’s urban development. But when the man she loves leaves her, the ancient myth catches up with […]
Movie Review – Never Gonna Snow Again (2020)
Never Gonna Snow Again, 2020. Directed by Malgorzata Szumowska and Michal Englert. Starring Alec Utgoff, Maja Ostaszewska, Agata Kulesza, Weronika Rosati, Katarzyna Figura, Lukasz Simlat, Andrzej Chyra, Krzysztof Czeczot, Astrid Nanowska, Wojciech Starostecki, Maciej Drosio and Olaf Marchwicki. SYNOPSIS: Zhenia, a Russian-speaking immigrant from the East, works as a masseur in Poland and becomes a […]
Movie Review – Mogul Mowgli (2020)
Mogul Mowgli, 2020. Directed by Bassam Tariq. Starring Riz Ahmed, Alyy Khan, Anjana Vasan, Aiysha Hart, Kiran Sonia Sawar, Abdul Hakim Joy, Hussain Manawer, Nabhaan Rizwan, Sudha Bhuchar, Ali Barouti, Mitesh Soni, Jeff Mirza, Khariis Ubiaro and Afraz Hussain. SYNOPSIS: A British-Pakistani rapper is on the cusp of his first world tour, but is struck […]
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