Black Bear, 2020. Directed by Lawrence Michael Levine. Starring Aubrey Plaza, Christopher Abbott and Sarah Gadon. SYNOPSIS: A filmmaker visits a couple at their secluded lakeside cottage in the hope of finding inspiration for her new screenplay. Films about filmmakers can often feel rather tired. It feels like the ultimate symptom of a creative person […]
Vanessa Kirby and Katherine Waterston find romance in UK trailer for The World to Come
Sony Pictures UK has has shared a poster and trailer for director Mona Fastvold’s romantic drama The World to Come which stars Katherine Waterston and Vanessa Kirby as lonely neighbours living in the bleak American Northwest who begin to fill a void in their lives when they find themselves irrevocably drawn to each other; take […]
2021 Glasgow Film Festival Review – Black Bear
Black Bear, 2020. Directed by Lawrence Michael Levine. Starring Aubrey Plaza, Christopher Abbott, Sarah Gadon, Paola Lazaro, Lindsay Burdge and Lou Gonzalez. SYNOPSIS: A film director seeks solace whilst vacationing at lake house, though quickly becomes entangled in the lives of the couple who own the property. The question of whether art imitates life or […]
UK poster and trailer for Black Bear starring Aubrey Plaza, Christopher Abbott and Sarah Gadon
Vertigo Releasing has unveiled a UK poster and trailer for writer-director Lawrence Michael Levine’s acclaimed film Black Bear, which sees Aubrey Plaza starring alongside Christopher Abbott and Sarah Gadon. Check them out here… At a remote lake house, filmmaker Allison (Aubrey Plaza) arrives as a house guest to a troubled couple (Abbott and Gadon), who […]
Movie Review – Black Bear (2020)
Black Bear, 2020. Written and Directed by Lawrence Michael Levine. Starring Aubrey Plaza, Christopher Abbott, Sarah Gadon, Lindsay Burdge, Jennifer Kim, Paola Lázaro, Shannon O’Neill, Grantham Coleman, Alexander Koch, and Lou Gonzalez. SYNOPSIS: A filmmaker at a creative impasse seeks solace from her tumultuous past at a rural retreat, only to find that the woods […]
2021 Sundance Film Festival Review – The World to Come
The World to Come, 2020. Directed by Mona Fastvold. Starring Katherine Waterston, Vanessa Kirby, Casey Affleck, and Christopher Abbott. SYNOPSIS: Somewhere along the mid-19th century American East Coast frontier, two neighbouring couples battle hardship and isolation, witnessed by a splendid yet testing landscape, challenging them both physically and psychologically. Period gay romance has carved out […]
On The Count of Three: A Nihilist Dark Comedy | Sundance 2021 Video Review
On The Count of Three, 2021. Directed Jerrod Carmichael. Starring Jerrod Carmichael, Christopher Abbott, Tiffany Haddish, J.B. Smoove, Lavell Crawford, and Henry Winkler. SYNOPSIS: Two guns. Two best friends. And a pact to end their lives when the day is done. Would you do anything for your best friend? On The Count of Three puts […]
2021 Sundance Film Festival Review – On the Count of Three
On the Count of Three, 2021. Directed by Jerrod Carmichael. Starring Jerrod Carmichael, Christopher Abbott, Tiffany Haddish, J.B. Smoove, Lavell Crawford, and Henry Winkler. SYNOPSIS: Two guns. Two best friends. And a pact to end their lives when the day is done. In one of this film’s most memorable scenes, Christopher Abbott’s suicidal Kevin asks his […]
Movie Review – Possessor (2020)
Possessor, 2020. Directed by Brandon Cronenberg. Starring Andrea Riseborough, Christopher Abbott, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Sean Bean, Gabrielle Graham, Matthew Garlick, and Tuppence Middleton. SYNOPSIS: An assassin who uses brain implant technology to get her personality inside the body of others finds her preference for being in a different body is beginning to take over her […]
UK trailer for Brandon Cronenberg’s sci-fi horror Possessor
Signature has released a UK poster and trailer for Possessor, the acclaimed sci-fi horror from writer-director Brandon Cronenberg. The film follows an elite assassin who uses brain implant technology to take control of peoples bodies to execute her targets and features a cast that includes Andrea Riseborough, Christopher Abbott, Rossif Sutherland, Tuppence Middleton, Sean Bean, […]
