Bird, 2024. Directed by Andrea Arnold Starring Barry Keoghan, Franz Rogowski, Nykiya Adams, James Nelson-Joyce, and Jason Buda. SYNOPSIS: Bailey lives with her brother Hunter and her father Bug, who raises them alone in a squat in northern Kent. Bug doesn’t have much time to devote to them. Bailey looks for attention and adventure elsewhere. […]
Movie Review – Bird (2024)
Bird, 2024 Written and Directed by Andrea Arnold. Starring Nykiya Adams, Barry Keoghan, Franz Rogowski, Jason Buda, Frankie Box, Jasmine Jobson, James Nelson-Joyce, Joanne Matthews, Rhys Yates, Jason Williamson, Kirsty J. Curtis, Sarah Beth Harber, and Carlos O’Connell. SYNOPSIS: Bailey lives with her brother Hunter and her father Bug, who raises them alone in a […]
Lily James and Pierce Brosnan replace Sylvester Stallone in Cliffhanger reboot
It appears that Sylvester Stallone has lost his grip on the Cliffhanger reboot, with the news that the action-icon has been replaced in the Jaume Collet-Serra directed film by Lily James and Pierce Brosnan. Variety report that the reworking of the 1993 action-blockbuster will now be very different to what was announced back in early […]
Trailer for Andrea Arnold’s Bird starring Barry Keoghan, Franz Rogowski and Nykiya Adams
Ahead of its theatrical release this November, MUBI has shared a trailer for writer-director Andrea Arnold’s coming-of-age drama Bird which stars Barry Keoghan, Franz Rogowski, and Nykiya Adams; watch it below… Bailey lives with her brother Hunter and her father Bug, who raises them alone in a squat in northern Kent. Bug doesn’t have much […]
Movie Review – Passages (2023)
Passages, 2023. Co-written and directed by Ira Sachs. Starring Franz Rogowski, Adèle Exarchopoulos, and Ben Whishaw. SYNOPSIS: On the last day of his shoot in Paris, film director Tomas sleeps with a woman and proudly tells his husband about it. A passionate, jealous, and narcissistic relationship unfolds between Tomas, Agathe, and Martin. If perhaps slighter […]
Movie Review – Passages (2023)
Passages, 2023. Written and Directed by Ira Sachs. Starring Franz Rogowski, Ben Whishaw, Adèle Exarchopoulos, Erwan Kepoa Falé, Radostina Rogliano, Théo Cholbi, Arcadi Radeff, Léa Boublil, Thibault Carterot, Tony Daoud, Theo Gabilloux, Anton Salachas, Sarah Lisbonis, William Nadylam, Caroline Chaniolleau, and Olivier Rabourdin. SYNOPSIS: A gay couple’s marriage is thrown into crisis when one of […]
Movie Review – Undine (2020)
Undine, 2020. Directed by Christian Petzold. Starring Paula Beer, Franz Rogowski and Jacob Matschenz. SYNOPSIS: After a bizarre break-up with her previous boyfriend, a woman forms a new relationship with an industrial diver. Christian Petzold is a filmmaker who thrives when his audience is slightly unbalanced. His last film Transit was an unusual and beguiling […]
Movie Review – Undine (2020)
Undine, 2020. Written and directed by Christian Petzold.Starring Paula Beer, Franz Rogowski, Jacob Matschenz, Maryam Zaree, Anne Ratte-Polle, Julia Franz Richter, Rafael Stachowiak, José Barros and Gloria Endres de Oliveira. SYNOPSIS: Undine works as a historian lecturing on Berlin’s urban development. But when the man she loves leaves her, the ancient myth catches up with […]
2020 BFI London Film Festival Review – Undine
Undine, 2020. Written and directed by Christian Petzold. Starring Paula Beer, Franz Rogowski, and Maryam Zaree. SYNOPSIS: Undine works as an historian lecturing on Berlin’s urban development. But when the man she loves leaves her, the ancient myth catches up with her. Undine has to kill the man who betrays her and return to the water. […]
Movie Review – A Hidden Life (2019)
A Hidden Life, 2019. Written and Directed by Terrence Malick. Starring August Diehl, Valerie Pachner, Michael Nyqvist, Matthias Schoenaerts, Jürgen Prochnow, Bruno Ganz, Alexander Fehling, Ulrich Matthes, Karl Markovics, Franz Rogowski, Tobias Moretti, Martin Wuttke, Max Mauff, Johan Leysen, Waldemar Kobus, Sophie Rois, Maria Simon, and Nicholas Reinke. SYNOPSIS: The Austrian Blessed Franz Jägerstätter, a […]