Browsing Category
Festivals
All that’s happening on the film festival circuit, from up-and-coming indie events to SXSW, BFI’s Seasons and the London Film Festival.
Frightfest Digital Edition 2- Held (2020) Review
Frightfest's second digital festival of 2020 began with the tense and thrilling home invasion (or is it home entrapment) film Held.
Looking to reignite the spark for their ninth wedding anniversary, Emma and Henry check in to a remote…
LFF 2020 – New Order (2020) Review
Michel Franco's New Order won the Grand Jury Prize in Venice and is now causing quite a stir at the London Film Festival.
The revolution will not be televised but it will be shown in cinemas and streamed at home. "Revolution is not a…
LFF 2020 – Possessor (2020) Review
With Brandon taking on many of his father's cinematic qualities, Possessor proves that the apple has not fallen far from the tree on the Cronenberg farm.
Appearing in the Cult strand at this year's London Film Festival, Brandon…
LFF 2020 – David Byrne’s American Utopia (2020) Review
Documentaries that consist of nothing but talking heads can be incredibly dull and uncinematic. Thankfully a documentary about Talking Heads frontman David Byrne's American Utopia is anything but on a Road To Nowhere.
The concert film…
LFF 2020 – One Man And His Shoes (2020) Review
Documentary One Man And His Shoes takes a look at the only thing more important to basketball than Michael Jordan. The Air Jordan.
Director Yemi Bamiro speaks to agents, marketers, collectors and historians to chart the trajectory of…
LFF 2020 – Rose: A Love Story (2020) Review
At the 2019 London Film Festival, Saint Maud brought debut filmmaker Rose Glass to audiences attention. 2020 brings another fantastic horror rose in the form of Rose: A Love Story.
In the remote woodland outskirts of a quiet town, Rose…
LFF 2020 – Another Round (2020) Review
Thomas Vinterberg and Mads Mikkelsen team up for Another Round at the London Film Festival.
Four friends, all teachers at various stages of middle age, are stuck in a rut. One evening while celebrating one of the group's 40th birthday…
LFF 2020 – The Intruder (2020) Review
Voice actress and singer Inés starts to suffer from intense nightmares following a traumatic event. She’s not helped by the creepy sounds that appear on her voiceover recordings. One of her colleagues believes she could be carrying an…
LFF 2020 – Undine (2020) Review
Christian Petzold (Phoenix, Transit) continues his rich run of form with the intense romantic fantasy Undine.
When we meet Undine, she is being broken up with by her boyfriend who has met someone else. Initially unable to process the…
LFF 2020 – Siberia (2020) Review
Abel Ferrara takes Willem Dafoe on a soul-searching trip into the wilderness in Siberia.
It is odd experiecnce watching this film at the London Film Festival, having seen Ferrara's documentary Sporting Life at the Venice Film Festival…