Kim’s Video, 2023. Directed by David Redmon and Ashley Sabin. SYNOPSIS: Playing with the forms and tropes of various cinema genres, the filmmaker sets off on a quest to find a legendary lost video collection of 55,000 movies in Sicily. It’s hardly a startling revelation that streaming killed the rental store, but following a glut […]
2023 Sundance Film Festival Review – Talk to Me
Talk to Me, 2022. Written and directed by Danny and Michael Philippou. Starring Sophie Wilde, Miranda Otto, Alexandra Jensen, Joe Bird, Otis Dhanji, and Zoe Terakes. SYNOPSIS: When a group of friends discover how to conjure spirits using an embalmed hand, they become hooked on the new thrill, until one of them goes too far […]
Sundance London 2022: The Top 5 Films From the Festival
Tom Beasley on the top films from Sundance London 2022… Another edition of the Sundance London Film Festival is in the books, with more than a dozen films from the Utah-based fest’s catalogue screened to press and the public in the British capital. We spent several days cramming in as many of the festival’s offerings […]
Edgar Wright’s The Sparks Brothers will open Sundance London 2021
The Sundance Institute and Picturehouse Cinemas have announced that Edgar Wright’s debut documentary The Sparks Brothers will open the 2021 edition of Sundance Film Festival: London on July 29th. “I was just 5 years old when I was hypnotised by Ron & Russell Mael (collectively Sparks) staring at me from the telly on a 1979 […]
Movie Review – The Nightingale (2019)
The Nightingale, 2019. Directed by Jennifer Kent. Starring Aisling Franciosi, Sam Claflin, Baykali Ganambarr, Damon Herriman, Harry Greenwood, Ewen Leslie and Magnolia Maymuru. SYNOPSIS: In 19th century Australia, an Irish convict embarks on a mission of violent revenge when her family is attacked by a group of English soldiers. Aussie director Jennifer Kent immediately became […]
Sundance London 2019 Review – Hail Satan?
Hail Satan?, 2019. Directed by Penny Lane. Starring Lucien Greaves and Jex Blackmore. SYNOPSIS: A documentary examining the rise of the Satanic Temple, as well as its clashes with the evangelical Christian parts of America. For many of us, Satanism is something that seemed cool as an edgy teenager firmly in the “screw God” phase […]
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 […]
Sundance London 2019 Review – Ask Dr Ruth
Ask Dr Ruth, 2019. Directed by Ryan White. Starring Dr Ruth Westheimer, Miriam Westheimer, Joel Westheimer, Leora Westheimer and Pierre Lehu. SYNOPSIS: The story of TV sex therapist Dr Ruth Westheimer, who is still blowing the minds of Americans with her frank discussions of sexuality at the age of 90. The opening scene of Ask […]
Sundance London 2019 Review – The Farewell
The Farewell, 2019. Directed by Lulu Wang. Starring Awkwafina, Zhao Shuzhen, Diana Lin, Tzi Ma, Jiang Yongbo, Lu Hong, Chen Han and Aoi Mizuhara. SYNOPSIS: A Chinese family reunite for a wedding, but almost everyone involved really knows that it’s a chance to say goodbye to their beloved matriarch, from whom they are concealing her […]
Sundance London 2019 Review – Apollo 11
Apollo 11, 2019. Directed by Todd Douglas Miller. Starring Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins. SYNOPSIS: A documentary that brings to life a selection of archive footage, including some that has never been seen before, to explore the 1969 mission to put men on the moon. Coming less than a year after Damien Chazelle’s […]
