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2020 BFI London Film Festival Review – Siberia

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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 […]

The Northman – Destined for Greatness?

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Tom Jolliffe looks at the upcoming Viking epic from Robert Eggers, The Northman… Robert Eggers is two features into his fledgling film career and has already established himself as a major voice in auteur horror. Comparisons to Kubrick have been thrown his way with two films, The Witch and The Lighthouse, which is high praise […]

Trailer, poster and images for Abel Ferrara’s Tommaso starring Willem Dafoe

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Kino Lorber has released a poster, trailer and images for writer-director Abel Ferrara’s (The Driller Killer, Bad Lieutenant) upcoming drama Tommaso which stars Willem Dafoe, Christina Chiriac and Anna Ferrara; watch it here… Willem Dafoe is an American artist living in Rome with his family, played by Abel Ferrara’s real-life wife and daughter. Their tumultuous […]

Willem Dafoe: An Underrated Great of his Generation

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Tom Jolliffe looks at the career of Willem Dafoe, and why he should be held in even higher regard… There are some actors who magnetise the limelight. Historically we’ve had the movie stars, those great headliners who would surf acclaim and awards as long as they were in good standing in a big studio. Further […]

When Cabin Fever Strikes: The Lighthouse and The Shining Double Bill

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Tom Jolliffe delves into the delights of cabin fever and double bills The Lighthouse and The Shining… I do love a double bill. Sometimes it’s pre-planned, like pre-meditated eating of the chocolate in the cupboard. Sometimes it just happens to cross my mind when watching one film, that I can connect it to something else […]

Flatulence in Film: Why cinema’s most maligned trope deserves more love

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Coinciding with the UK release of Robert Eggers’ second feature film, The Lighthouse, George Nash lets rip on why cinema’s most dismissed trope, the fart gag, deserves more love… On a small, remote island, two gruff-looking figures, as if frozen in time, stand hauntingly at the door of a rickety wooden shack staring out silently […]

Movie Review – The Lighthouse (2019)

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The Lighthouse, 2019. Directed by Robert Eggers. Starring Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson. SYNOPSIS: Two lighthouse keepers try to maintain their sanity whilst living on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s. It isn’tevery day you have the option to go to the cinema and watch a film in black and white […]

Anne Hathaway and Ben Affleck star in trailer for The Last Thing He Wanted

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Ahead of its arrival on Netflix next month, a poster and trailer have been released for director Dee Rees’ (Mudbound) upcoming political thriller The Last Thing He Wanted. An adaptation of Joan Didion’s 1996 novel of the same name, the film stars Anne Hathaway, Ben Affleck, Rosie Perez, Willem Dafoe, Edi Gathegi, and Mel Rodriguez; […]

Movie Review – Motherless Brooklyn (2019)

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Motherless Brooklyn, 2019. Written and Directed by Edward Norton. Starring Edward Norton, Bruce Willis, Willem Dafoe, Leslie Mann, Ethan Suplee, Alec Baldwin, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Josh Pais, Michael K. Williams, Cherry Jones, Fisher Stevens, Bobby Cannavale, and Dallas Roberts. SYNOPSIS: Set against the backdrop of 1950s New York, Motherless Brooklyn follows Lionel Essrog, a lonely private […]