The Neutral Ground, 2021. Co-written and directed by CJ Hunt. SYNOPSIS: In December 2015, the New Orleans City Council voted to remove four Confederate monuments from public grounds. A forceful group of critics protested the decision, and fearing retaliation, no crew would agree to remove the statues. Comedy has historically proven to be a sturdy […]
2021 BFI London Film Festival Review – Belfast
Belfast, 2021. Directed by Kenneth Branagh. Starring Jude Hill, Jamie Dornan, Caitríona Balfe, Judi Dench, Ciarán Hinds and Colin Morgan. SYNOPSIS: In the midst of the Troubles, a young boy and his parents struggle with the idea that their future might have to lie somewhere other than the city they have always called home. Kenneth […]
2021 BFI London Film Festival Review – Titane
Titane, 2021. Directed by Julia Ducournau. Starring Agathe Rousselle, Vincent Lindon, Laïs Salameh, Myriem Akheddiou, Bertrand Bonello and Garance Marillier. SYNOPSIS: A woman with a metal plate in her head following a childhood car accident ends up on the run after a killing spree. Julia Ducournau announced herself as a new voice in horror cinema […]
2021 BFI London Film Festival Review – Munich: The Edge of War
Munich: The Edge of War, 2021. Directed by Christian Schwochow. Starring George MacKay, Jessica Brown Findlay, Jeremy Irons, Jannis Niewöhner, Sandra Hüller, Martin Wuttke. SYNOPSIS: September 1938, following years of rising Facism in Europe, Hitler is intent on expanding Germany’s influence across Europe. In an effort to keep the peace, both sides strive to achieve […]
2021 BFI London Film Festival Review – 7 Days
7 Days, 2021. Co-written and directed by Roshan Sethi. Starring Karan Soni, Geraldine Viswanathan, and Mark Duplass. SYNOPSIS: As if their pre-arranged date, organized by their traditional Indian parents, wasn’t uncomfortable enough, Ravi and Rita are forced to shelter in place together as COVID-19’s reach intensifies. 18+ months into the pandemic, audiences can’t really be […]
2021 BFI London Film Festival Review – The Real Charlie Chaplin
The Real Charlie Chaplin, 2021. Co-written and directed by Peter Middleton and James Spinney. SYNOPSIS: A look at the life and work of Charlie Chaplin in his own words featuring an in-depth interview he gave to Life magazine in 1966. BAFTA-nominated filmmakers Peter Middleton and James Spinney (Notes on Blindness) return with a less-innovative though […]
2021 BFI London Film Festival Review – Dopesick
Martin Carr reviews Dopesick… Michael Keaton might be filling column inches for his Batman return in The Flash right now, but there is something more sombre hitting Disney plus on November 12th. Dopesick is an eight part drama which explores the creation, marketing and impact of a drug called Oxycontin on America. A class two narcotic which […]
2021 BFI London Film Festival Review – The Phantom of the Open
The Phantom of the Open, 2021. Directed by Craig Roberts. Starring Mark Rylance, Sally Hawkins, Rhys Ifans, Jake Davies, Christian Lees, Jonah Lees, Mark Lewis Jones, and Johann Myers. SYNOPSIS: Down on his luck Maurice Flitcroft from Barrow In Furness finds his job at the shipyard in jeopardy and decides to try his hand at […]
2021 BFI London Film Festival Review – Babi Yar. Context
Babi Yar. Context, 2021. Directed by Sergei Loznitsa. SYNOPSIS: Nazi troops massacre more than 30,000 Jews over a two-day period in September 1941. Given that the world is typically used to seeing aggressively narrative-driven depictions of the Holocaust – whether cinematic feature or documentary – Sergei Loznitsa’s (Donbass) new doc Babi Yar. Context may seem rather […]
2021 BFI London Film Festival Review – Little Palestine (Diary of a Siege)
Little Palestine (Diary of a Siege), 2021. Directed by Abdallah Al-Khatib. SYNOPSIS: After the Syrian Revolution, Al-Assad’s regime besieges the district of Yarmouk, the largest Palestinian refugee camp in the world. Yarmouk is cut off. The director records the daily deprivations while celebrating the people’s courage. Abdallah Al-Khatib’s deeply upsetting, righteously angry in-the-trenches documentary captures […]
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