Scales, 2019. Directed by Shahad Ameen. Starring Baseema Hajjar, Yaqoub Alfarhan and Ashraf Barhom. SYNOPSIS: In an isolated island community, each family must sacrifice one daughter to the sea creatures who surround it. But one young girl has been spared that fate by her father, making her an outcast in the community. A few years […]
2019 BFI London Film Festival Review – Earthquake Bird
Earthquake Bird, 2019. Written and directed by Wash Westmoreland. Starring Alicia Vikander, Riley Keough, and Naoki Kobayashi. SYNOPSIS: A young woman living in Tokyo becomes the prime suspect in a horrific murder when her friend goes missing in the wake of a tumultuous love triangle. Acclaimed filmmaker Wash Westmoreland (Still Alice, Colette) tries his hand […]
2019 BFI London Film Festival Review – First Love
First Love, 2019. Directed by Takashi Miike. Starring Becky, Masataka Kubota, Nao Omori, Masaaki Uchino, Shota Sometani, Takehiro Miura, Sakurako Konishi, Jun Murakami, and Sansei Shiomi. SYNOPSIS: A young boxer and a call girl get caught up in a drug-smuggling scheme over the course of one night in Tokyo. The latest film from the industrious […]
2019 BFI London Film Festival Review – Burning Cane
Burning Cane, 2019. Directed by Phillip Youmans. Starring Wendell Pierce, Karen Kaia Livers, and Dominique McClellan. SYNOPSIS: Amongst the cane fields of rural Louisiana, an aging mother struggles between her religious convictions and the love of her son. Phillip Youmans delivers one of the most precocious feature debuts in recent memory with Burning Cane, a film […]
Movie Review – Rewind (2019)
Rewind, 2019. Directed by Sasha Neulinger. SYNOPSIS: A debut filmmaker recounts his childhood trauma that exposed a dark family secret. As much as it is a documentary of the most hard-hitting variety, Rewind is an exercise in extreme courage. For first-time filmmaker Sasha Neulinger, retracing the steps of a childhood marred by years of harrowing […]
2019 BFI London Film Festival Review – Leap of Faith
Leap of Faith, 2019. Written and directed by Alexandre O. Philippe. Starring William Friedkin. SYNOPSIS: A lyrical and spiritual cinematic essay on The Exorcist, Leap of Faith explores the uncharted depths of William Friedkin’s mind’s eye, the nuances of his filmmaking process, and the mysteries of faith and fate that have shaped his life and […]
2019 BFI London Film Festival Review – Blackbird
Blackbird, 2019. Directed by Roger Michell Starring Susan Sarandon, Sam Neill, Kate Winslett, Rainn Wilson, Mia Wasikowska, Lindsay Duncan, Bex Taylor-Klaus, and Anson Boon. SYNOPSIS: When a terminally ill mother (Susan Sarandon) brings her nearest-and-dearest together for one last time before she dies, it stirs up deep seated emotions within the fractured family. From the […]
Movie Review – Little Monsters (2019)
Little Monsters, 2019. Written and directed by Abe Forsythe. Starring Lupita Nyong’o, Josh Gad, Alexander England, Nadia Townsend, Kat Stewart, Diesel La Torraca, and Stephen Peacocke. SYNOPSIS: A washed-up musician teams up with a teacher and a kids show personality to protect young children from a sudden outbreak of zombies. Watching this Australian rom-zom-com from […]
2019 BFI London Film Festival Review – Knives Out
Knives Out, 2019. Written and directed by Rian Johnson. Starring Daniel Craig, Ana De Armas, Lakeith Stanfield, Chris Evans, Jamie Lee Curtis, Toni Collette, Don Johnson, Michael Shannon, Christopher Plummer, Katherine Langford, Jaeden Martell, and Riki Lindholme. SYNOPSIS: When renowned crime novelist Harlan Thrombey (Christopher Plummer) is found dead at his estate just after his […]
Pick of the London Film Festival Special #4 with Katie Smith-Wong and Sarah Miles | 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 two guests for the price of one as we discuss Rian Johnson’s murder-mystery Knives Out and Noah Baumbach’s drama Marriage Story… On this week’s […]
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