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Daily Archives: January 9, 2021
AFI Fest: New Order/Nuevo orden
Mexico City erupts in chaos when protestors declare war on the privileged elite. A brutal and unflinching study in social and racial inequality.
AFI Fest: New Order/Nuevo orden
AFI Fest: Wander Darkly
Wander Darkly stars Sienna Miller and Diego Luna as couple whose trauma helps heal the divide in their relationship. Twists and turns will keep audiences guessing.
AFI Fest: Wander Darkly
Top 10 – Best Films of 2020
Considering the way 2020 went with the cinema closed for most of the year, even when they reopened the new films being offered were few and far between. Although I cannot really complain too much with getting to see all three Lord of the Rings extended editions twice something I had wanted to do for […]
Top 10 – Best Films of 2020
News of the World (2020) Review
Captain Kidd was a Civil War veteran who agrees to take a young girl back to her aunt and uncle after she had been taken by the Kiowa people many years before. The journey across Texas was never going to be an easy one. ⭐️⭐️⭐️ After becoming a veteran of three wars Captain Kidd was […]
News of the World (2020) Review
Donnie Darko (2001) Review
Donnie Darko is a troubled teenager who narrowly escapes a very bizarre and life changing accident. He sleepwalks and has visions with an imaginary friend that is a man in large rabbit suit named Frank and is manipulated to commit a series of crimes. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ This film has been on my must watch list for […]
Donnie Darko (2001) Review
Underwater (2020) Review
Time: 95 Minutes Age Rating: Violence, horror scenes & offensive language Cast: Kristen Stewart as Norah Price Vincent Cassel as W. Lucien Mamoudou Athie as Rodrigo Nagenda T.J. Miller as Paul Abel John Gallagher Jr. as Liam Smith Jessica Henwick as Emily Haversham Director: William Eubank Disaster strikes more than six miles below the ocean […]
Underwater (2020) Review
Les Misérables
Les Misérables France (2019) Dir. Ladj Ly No matter where, if it is a predominantly white country there will always be racism and unrest with the black communities, a sad truth which was exposed to horrific levels over the past twelve months in the US and later on a wider scale. This French set entry […]
Les Misérables
The Best New Additions on Netflix in America This Week
If you want to know what to watch this weekend then we’re here to give you the lowdown on this week’s biggest and best additions on Netflix USA. Here we will give you our top picks as well as a full list of everything added to the streaming service in the last week. So here […]
The Best New Additions on Netflix in America This Week (8th January 2021)
‘Dickinson’ Review: Season 2
The series plays fast and loose with history and sometimes loses its grip.
‘Dickinson’ Review: Apple TV+’s Historical Lark Is Uneven, but Unrivaled In Season 2
“Soul” Review
Soul (2020) This new animation comes from the creators of Inside Out (2015), and is about a music teacher and aspiring jazz pianist, Joe Gardner (Jamie Foxx) who dies by falling into New York City’s manhole. He begins his journey in the world “beyond” (“The Great Before”) and his reluctant companion becomes a yet-unborn soul […]
“Soul” Review
DEATH TO 2020 (2020)
Death To 2020 (2020), Cristin Milioti, Netflix My favourite thing about Netflix’s Death to 2020, a comedic retrospective of the year that was 2020 is the phrase ‘Prime Ministerial scarecrow, Boris Johnson.’ I laugh every time I re-read it, because it’s true. There’s certainly a handful of more amusing moments within the show, whether it’s […]
DEATH TO 2020 (2020): The Thing I Liked…
Movie Review: Up
Image Courtesy of Wikipedia Summary The helium balloon seller, Carl Fredrickson was ordered to move out of his house and into a care home. He was living alone in the home ever since his wife and childhood love, Ellie, passed away. He refused to leave his home, even as skyscrapers towered around his tiny home. […]
Movie Review: Up
Short Film: A BROKEN WING, 11min., Israel, Drama/Family
Tony is a strong, independent woman with a unique and striking look, but all that is in stark contrast with her position of her power balance between her and her old mom Denise. She is an opinionated, resolute and self-absorbed woman. She’s apparently independent, but when Tony is present, she expresses practical and emotional dependency.Her […]
Short Film: A BROKEN WING, 11min., Israel, Drama/Family
Short Film: AMERICAN DREAM, 19min., France, Drama
Frustrated by the lack of opportunities for black people he had in France, Mickael has been living in the United States for the past 5 years. Proud of his success, he invited his little brother (Matthieu) to Chicago to convince him to try his luck here. Unfortunately, everything turns into a nightmare when they accidentally […]
Short Film: AMERICAN DREAM, 19min., France, Drama
Short Film: HONG KONG DIALOGUES, 40min., Hong Kong, Experimental Documentary
The experimental documentary shot on the ground by citizen-journalists during the Hong Kong protests of August 2019 to January 2020, it captured the conversations and words appeared during the Hong Kong Movement in 2019, from slogans chanted by the protestors to, speech by advocate, argument between local residents, to graffties on the wall. It tends […]
Short Film: HONG KONG DIALOGUES, 40min., Hong Kong, Experimental Documentary
REBEL YELL: Banksy & the Rise of Outlaw Art
Source – stuartbramhall.wordpress.com – “…He still considers himself an outlaw, underground street artist, producing art for ordinary people who never buy paintings or visit art museums. His images are simultaneously ironic and iconoclastic, in a way that forces people to question the way society operates” Banksy and the Rise of Outlaw Art Directed by Ello […]
REBEL YELL: Banksy & the Rise of Outlaw Art
Nicolas Cage Set To Explore The ‘History of Swear Words’ For Netflix
Those naughty four-letter words. We all use them (some much more often than others). But where did they come from and why have generations of concerned parents been trying to scrub them from their kids’ vocabulary with literal bars of soap? If ever you’ve wanted to know the answers to such questions, then you’re in […]
Nicolas Cage Set To Explore The ‘History of Swear Words’ For Netflix
‘Barry’ Season 3 and Season 4
HBO has yet to renew “Barry” for a fourth season but that hasn’t stopped the show’s writing staff from staying productive in recent months.
‘Barry’ Season 3 and Season 4 Are Already Written and Waiting to Film
Film Review: “Promising Young Woman” (2020)
Credit: Focus Features ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Rating: 5 out of 5. How many times do you hear stories of rape and domestic violence committed against women? Sometimes it is too much to handle. The documentary “Roll Red Roll” about the Steubenville High School rape case is one of the examples that happens every day around the world. […]
Film Review: “Promising Young Woman” (2020)