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Movie Review – Eighteam (2014)

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Eighteam, 2014. Directed by Juan Rodriguez-Briso. Starring Kalusha Bwalya, Dennis Liwewe, Christopher Katongo, Ciro Ferrara, Mauro Tassotti and Hervé Renard. SYNOPSIS: The against-the-odds story of how Zambia rebuilt its national football team after an air disaster led to the death of almost their entire squad in 1993. Football loves an underdog story. And it’s difficult […]

Movie Review – Train to Busan Presents: Peninsula (2020)

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Train to Busan Presents: Peninsula, 2020. Directed by Yeon Sang-ho. Starring Gang Dong-won, Lee Jung-hyun, Lee Re, Lee Ye-won, Kim Min-jae, Koo Kyo-hwan, Kwon Hae-hyo and Kim Kyu-baek. SYNOPSIS: Four years after the initial zombie outbreak, a military man heads back into quarantined South Korea in search of a van full of cash. The zombie […]

Movie Review – Antrum: The Deadliest Film Ever Made (2018)

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Antrum: The Deadliest Film Ever Made, 2018. Directed by David Amito and Michael Laicini. Starring Nicole Tompkins, Rowan Smyth, Dan Istrate and Circus-Szalewski. SYNOPSIS: This mockumentary tells the story of a 1970s horror movie uncovered after decades of notoriety, following a series of mysterious deaths. Overblown stories about movies being “cursed” are always entertaining. The […]

Exclusive Interview – Writer-star Antonia Campbell-Hughes on Cordelia and why people thought it was a period drama

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Tom Beasley chats to Antonia Campbell-Hughes, co-writer and star of the strange, London-set paranoid thriller Cordelia… It’s fair to say that Cordelia is not an easy movie to discuss. Set in London and dealing with a woman reeling from trauma in the wake of the 7/7 bombings, it’s a paranoid thriller in the grand tradition […]

Movie Review – After Love (2020)

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After Love, 2020. Directed by Aleem Khan. Starring Joanna Scanlan, Nathalie Richard, Talid Ariss and Nasser Memarzia. SYNOPSIS: After the death of her husband, a woman travels across the English Channel to find the woman with whom he was having an affair. Joanna Scanlan is one of the most underrated and versatile actors in Britain. […]

Movie Review – Limbo (2020)

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Limbo, 2020. Directed by Ben Sharrock. Starring Amir El-Masry, Vikash Bhai, Kwabena Ansah, Ola Orebiyi, Sidse Babett Knudsen and Sanjeev Kohli. SYNOPSIS: A group of immigrants housed on a remote Scottish island wait anxiously for the response to their asylum claims. It’s such a cliché to refer to a movie as “timely”, particularly this year […]

Movie Review – If It Were Love (2020)

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If It Were Love, 2020. Directed by Patric Chiha. SYNOPSIS: Documentary exploring the process of constructing a dance piece inspired by 1990s rave culture. Dance is inherently cinematic. In fact, the widescreen delight of elaborate bodily contortions has featured in a number of movies at this year’s LFF, including the booze-soaked Danish drama Another Round […]

Movie Review – A Common Crime (2020)

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A Common Crime, 2020. Directed by Francisco Márquez. Starring Elisa Carricajo, Mecha Martinez and Eliot Otazo. SYNOPSIS: A woman is tormented by guilt when she comes to believe that her actions contributed to someone being killed. Genre fans would be forgiven for getting excited during the opening moments of A Common Crime. The movie rolls […]

2020 BFI London Film Festival – Bad Tales

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Bad Tales, 2020. Directed by the D’Innocenzo brothers. Starring Elio Germano, Max Malatesta, Gabriel Montesi, Cristina Pellegrino, Giulia Melillo, Justin Korovkin, Giulietta Rebeggiani, Tommaso Di Cola, Ileana D’Ambra and Laura Borgioli. SYNOPSIS: A series of families living in or close to Rome intersect as the actions of parents exert a corrupting influence on their children. […]