On a Magical Night, 2019. Directed by Christophe Honoré. Starring Chiara Mastroianni, Benjamin Biolay, Vincent Lacoste, Camille Cottin. SYNOPSIS: After ending her latest casual fling with an attractive young student, a University lecturer reveals her long history of affairs to her husband of twenty years. Leaving him devastated, she checks into a hotel room across […]
Movie Review – A Hidden Life (2019)
A Hidden Life, 2019. Written and directed by Terrence Malick. Starring August Diehl, Valerie Pachner, Matthias Schoenaerts, Michael Nyqvist, and Bruno Ganz. SYNOPSIS: Austrian farmer Franz Jägerstätter faces the threat of execution for refusing to fight for the Nazis during World War II. After spending years out in the experimental doldrums to the extent of […]
Pick of the London Film Festival Special #5 with Emily Murray and Tom Percival | The Pick of the Flicks Podcast
During the course of the BFI London Film Festival 2019, The Pick of the Flicks Podcast is devoting itself to looking at the best of the fest. This time around, it’s the end of the festival and we’re having a chat about Martin Scorsese’s gangster opus The Irishman… On this week’s episode of The Pick […]
2019 BFI London Film Festival Review – I Lost My Body
I Lost My Body, 2019. Directed by Jérémy Clapin. Starring Hakim Faris, Victoire Du Bois and Patrick d’Assumçao. SYNOPSIS: A dismembered hand escapes a medical facility in an attempt to become reunited with its owner. Film festivals are often about austere dramas in which people wander around with sad, serious expressions on their faces not […]
2019 BFI London Film Festival Review – The Irishman
The Irishman, 2019. Directed by Martin Scorsese. Starring Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Joe Pesci, Bobby Cannavale, Harvey Keitel, Stephen Graham, Domenick Lombardozzi, Anna Paquin, Ray Romano, Jesse Plemons, and Jack Huston. SYNOPSIS: A mob hitman recalls his possible involvement with the slaying of Jimmy Hoffa. The gangster genre has existed almost as long as […]
2019 BFI London Film Festival Review – Luce
Luce, 2019. Directed by Julius Onah. Starring Naomi Watts, Tim Roth, Kelvin Harrison Jr., Octavia Spencer, Andrea Bang, Norbert Leo Butz, Astro, Marsha Stephanie Blake, Christopher Mann, and Noah Gaynor. SYNOPSIS: When a seemingly perfect married couple are forced to question the idealised version of their adopted son (Kelvin Harrison Jr.), cracks begin to appear […]
Movie Review – Sid & Judy (2019)
Sid & Judy, 2019. Directed by Stephen Kijak. Starring Jennifer Jason Leigh and Jon Hamm. SYNOPSIS: A revealing new look at Judy Garland fifty years after her tragic, untimely death. Sid & Judy fuses the unpublished recollections of producer, manager and third husband, Sid Luft, with film clips, rare concert footage and Judy’s own inimitable […]
2019 BFI London Film Festival Review – Le Mans ’66 (a.k.a. Ford v Ferrari)
Le Mans ’66 (a.k.a. Ford v Ferrari), 2019. Directed by James Mangold. Starring Christian Bale, Matt Damon, Caitriona Balfe, Jon Bernthal, Josh Lucas, Noah Jupe, Tracy Letts, Ray McKinnon, and JJ Feild. SYNOPSIS: When former Le Mans winner and American car designer Carroll Shelby (Matt Damon) is tasked by Ford to make a revolutionary race […]
2019 BFI London Film Festival Review – A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, 2019. Directed by Marielle Heller. Starring Tom Hanks, Matthew Rhys, Susan Kelechi Watson, Chris Cooper, Enrico Colantoni, Maryann Plunkett, Tammy Blanchard, and Wendy Makkena. SYNOPSIS: After a jaded magazine writer is assigned a profile of Fred Rogers, he overcomes his skepticism, learning about empathy, kindness, and decency from America’s […]
2019 BFI London Film Festival Review – Official Secrets
Official Secrets, 2019. Directed by Gavin Hood. Starring Keira Knightley, Matt Smith, Matthew Goode, Ralph Fiennes, Rhys Ifans, Conleth Hill, MyAnna Buring, Jack Farthing, Katherine Kelly, Adam Bakri, and Tamsin Greig. SYNOPSIS: The true story of a British whistleblower who leaked information to the press about an illegal NSA spy operation designed to push the […]
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