Limbo, 2021. Written and Directed by Ben Sharrock. Starring Amir El-Masry, Vikash Bhai, Ola Orebiyi, Kwabena Ansah, Sidse Babett Knudsen, Kais Nashif, Kenneth Collard, Sanjeev Kohli, Cameron Fulton, Lewis Gribben, Grace Chilton, and Raymond Mearns. SYNOPSIS: Omar is a promising young musician. Separated from his Syrian family, he is stuck on a remote Scottish island […]
Movie Review – The Exception (2020)
The Exception, 2020. Directed by Jesper W. Nielsen. Starring Danica Curcic, Amanda Collin, Sidse Babett Knudsen and Lene Maria Christensen. SYNOPSIS: When four co-workers receive a series of threatening emails, workplace frictions that were previously bubbling away under the surface start to evolve into suspicions of a more sinister nature. There’s a moment midway through […]
Psychological thriller The Exception gets a trailer and poster
A poster and trailer have been released for the Danish psychological thriller The Exception. Directed by Jesper W. Nielsen, the film is based on Christian Torpe’s novel of the same name and stars includes Amanda Collin, Sidse Babett Knudsen, Lene Maria Christensen and Danica Curcic; take a look here… Iben, Malene, Anne-Lise and Camilla are […]
Movie Review – Limbo (2020)
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 […]
2020 BFI London Film Festival Review – Limbo
Limbo, 2020. Written and directed by Ben Sharrock. Starring Amir El-Masry, Vikash Bhai, and Sidse Babett Knudsen. SYNOPSIS: Omar is a promising young musician. Separated from his Syrian family, he is stuck on a remote Scottish island awaiting the fate of his asylum request. There’s an understandable seriousness and sobriety to most movies chronicling the asylum […]
DVD Review – The Duke of Burgundy (2014)
Duke of Burgundy, 2014. Directed by Peter Strickland. Starring Sidse Babett Knudsen, Monica Swinn, Chiara D’Anna, Fatma Mohamed and Zita Kraszkó. SYNOPSIS: A relationship based around mistress and submissive begins to deteriorate as repetition begins to set in. Peter Strickland is a filmmaker with the uncanny knack of being able to make films that draw […]
Movie Review – The Duke of Burgundy (2014)
The Duke of Burgundy, 2014. Directed by Peter Strickland. Starring Sidse Babett Knudsen, Chiara D’Anna, Fatma Mohamed, Eugenia Caruso and Monica Swinn. SYNOPSIS: Two lovers engage in a ritualistic passage of behaviour that brings one close to obsession and one looking for a way out… Peter Strickland is without a shadow of a doubt one of the […]
Felicity Jones confirmed for Inferno, more cast members added
Columbia Pictures has revealed the cast for the adaptation of the Dan Brown novel Inferno, which will reunite The Da Vinci Code and Angels and Demons director Ron Howard and star Tom Hanks as Robert Langdon. Felicity Jones (The Theory of Everything) has now been confirmed for the role of Dr Sienna Brooks after months […]
