Cicada, 2020. Directed by Matt Fifer and Kieran Mulcare. Starring Matt Fifer, Sheldon D. Brown, Jazmin Grace Grimaldi, Sandra Bauleo, Michael Potts, Jason Greene and Cobie Smulders. SYNOPSIS: A bisexual man swaps casual sex for commitment when he finally meets someone with whom he believes he can truly be himself. If gay people are under-represented […]
Movie Review – Ultraviolence (2020)
Ultraviolence, 2020. Directed by Ken Fero. SYNOPSIS: A very timely and powerful look at cases of deaths in police custody in the UK. In 2001, documentary filmmaker Ken Fero unveiled his ground-breaking, controversial movie Injustice, which told numerous stories of deaths in police custody in Britain. Almost two decades later, he’s returning to the subject […]
Movie Review – Rose: A Love Story (2020)
Rose: A Love Story, 2020. Directed by Jennifer Sheridan. Starring Sophie Rundle, Matt Stokoe, Olive Gray and Nathan McMullen. SYNOPSIS: A couple living in an isolated woodland cottage, away from the rest of humanity, for unique reasons must reckon with the risk that their secret home may be discovered. Vampirism has been around on the […]
Movie Review – The Intruder (2020)
The Intruder, 2020. Directed by Natalia Meta. Starring Erica Rivas, Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, Daniel Hendler, Cecilia Roth, Mirta Busnelli and Agustín Rittano. SYNOPSIS: A dubbing artist and singer is plagued by troubling noises and an unravelling mental state in the wake of trauma. There’s an interesting little sub-genre of horror movies and dark thrillers set […]
2020 BFI London Film Festival Review – The Salt In Our Waters
The Salt In Our Waters, 2020. Directed by Rezwan Shahriar Sumit. Starring Titas Zia, Tasnova Tamanna, Fazlur Rahman Babu and Ashok Bepari. SYNOPSIS: When a sculptor visits a remote fishing village in Bangladesh, he finds himself beloved by some locals and treated as a dangerous invader by others. Multiple films at this year’s LFF focus […]
Movie Review – One Night in Miami (2020)
One Night in Miami, 2020. Directed by Regina King. Starring Kingsley Ben-Adir, Leslie Odom Jr., Eli Goree, Aldis Hodge, Lance Reddick, Joaquina Kalukango and Christian Magby. SYNOPSIS: Four icons of Black history in America meet in a hotel room to celebrate 22-year-old Cassius Clay’s surprise world heavyweight championship victory over Sonny Liston. On paper, a […]
Movie Review – 180 Degree Rule (2020)
180 Degree Rule, 2020. Directed by Farnoosh Samadi. Starring Sahar Dolatshahi, Pejman Jamshidi, Hassan Pourshirazi and Mohammad Heidari. SYNOPSIS: In the wake of a traumatic event, a mother becomes trapped in a rapidly unravelling web of deceit. Everyone does strange things in the wake of trauma. That’s something with which we can all sympathise. And […]
Movie Review – Farewell Amor (2020)
Farewell Amor, 2020. Directed by Ekwa Msangi. Starring Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine, Zainab Jah, Jayme Lawson, Nana Mensah, Marcus Scribner and Joie Lee. SYNOPSIS: Seventeen years after he moved from Angola to New York City, a man is joined by his wife and daughter, only to discover that all three of them have changed dramatically […]
2020 BFI London Film Festival Review – I Am Samuel
I Am Samuel, 2020. Directed by Pete Murimi. SYNOPSIS: A gay couple in Kenya deal with the fact their relationship is illegal, as well as their disapproving families. “This is Alex. I am Sammy. Alex is the love of my life.” So opens Kenyan documentary I Am Samuel, without a “can I make it any […]
2020 BFI London Film Festival Review – Siberia
Siberia, 2020. Directed by Abel Ferrara. Starring Willem Dafoe, Cristina Chiriac, Dounia Sichov and Simon McBurney. SYNOPSIS: A man who abandoned his whole life to tend bar in Siberia embarks on a voyage of self-discovery when he visits a strange cave. Few people do narration like Willem Dafoe. That distinctive, unsettling voice has provided a […]
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