Infinite Storm, 2022. Directed by Malgorzata Szumowska. Starring Naomi Watts, Billy Howle, Coco Sumner, Denis O’Hare, Parker Sawyers, Eliot Sumner, and Joshua Rollins. SYNOPSIS: When a climber gets caught in a blizzard, she encounters a stranded stranger and must get them both down the mountain before nightfall. Two lives were changed forever following the supposedly […]
Movie Review – The Nan Movie (2022)
The Nan Movie, 2022. Directed by Josie Rourke. Starring Catherine Tate, Mathew Horne, Katherine Parkinson, Niky Wardley, Parker Sawyers, Pete Bennett, Tom Vaughan-Lawlor, Jack Doolan, Jack Michael Cloke, Paul Reid, Rosalie Craig, Bill Murphy, and Paul Tylak. SYNOPSIS: Catherine Tate’s iconic character Nan hits the big screen as she goes on a wild road trip […]
2019 BFI London Film Festival Review – Monsoon
Monsoon, 2019. Directed by Hong Khaou. Starring Henry Golding and Parker Sawyers. SYNOPSIS: Kit, a British Vietnamese man, returns to Saigon for the first time in over 30 years, after fleeing during the Vietnam-American War. Hong Khaou’s follow-up to his 2014 debut Lilting is a similarly sober offering that, despite its scant 86-minute runtime, is in […]
Second Opinion – Southside with You (2016)
Southside with You, 2016. Directed by Richard Tanne. Starring Tika Sumpter, Parker Sawyers, Vanessa Bell Calloway and Phillip Edward Van Lear. SYNOPSIS: On a summer’s day in 1989, Barack Obama took Michelle Robinson on what turned out to be their first date across Chicago’s South Side. One that included an art exhibition, live music, a […]
Movie Review – Southside with You (2016)
Southside With You, 2016. Directed by Richard Tanne. Starring Tika Sumpter and Parker Sawyers. SYNOPSIS: An invitation to a community meeting turns into a first date for Barack Obama and Michelle Robinson. Regardless of logic, there’s always a disconnect that exists between figures of influence and the idea that they were once regular people, with regular lives. Southside with […]
Second Opinion – Monsters: Dark Continent (2015)
Monsters: Dark Continent, 2015. Directed by Tom Green. Starring Johnny Harris, Sam Keeley, Joe Dempsie, Kyle Soller, Nicholas Pinnock and Parker Sawyers. SYNOPSIS: Ten years on from the events of Monsters, and the ‘Infected Zones’ have now spread worldwide. In the Middle East a new insurgency has begun. At the same time there has also been […]
Movie Review – Monsters: Dark Continent (2015)
Monsters: Dark Continent, 2015. Directed by Tom Green. Starring Johnny Harris, Sam Keeley, Joe Dempsie, Kyle Soller, Nicholas Pinnock and Parker Sawyers. SYNOPSIS: Ten years on from the events of Monsters, and the ‘Infected Zones’ have now spread worldwide. In the Middle East a new insurgency has begun. At the same time there has also been a […]