Bridget (Kelly O’Sullivan) is thirty-four years old and works as a server. She is unsure where she is going or what she is doing with her life. But a summer working as a nanny for Frances (Ramona Edith Williams) will be one of self discovery for her. When we meet Bridget at a party she … Continue reading Saint Frances
As a dismembered hand journeys across Paris to find its owner it remembers its bodies childhood as well as the immediate events leading to it being severed. I Lost My Body is a surreal but oddly uplifting French animation. There are two converging storylines. The difficult and perilous journey across Paris for the dismembered hand … Continue reading I Lost My Body
Bol (Sope Dirisu) and Rial (Wunmi Mosaku) are a refugee couple seeking asylum in the UK. When they are assigned a house to live in it appears to contain an evil that may have followed them to their new home. His House is the debut feature film from writer/director Remi Weekes and it may well … Continue reading His House
In Cayuga, New Mexico at some point in the 1950’s a strange sound can be heard on the radio waves. Switchboard Operator Fay (Sierra McCormick) and Radio DJ Everett (Jake Horowitz) decide to investigate. Co-writer and director Andrew Paterson has delivered a fantastic debut film in The Vast Of Night that may well have slipped … Continue reading The Vast Of Night
Joe (Jamie Foxx) believes it is his life’s purpose to be a jazz musician and after years as a part time music teacher he has finally landed a gig that could make his dream come true. The only problem is that he is so happy that he fails to spot that a manhole cover is … Continue reading Soul
For the first time on this blog I will be making the foray into television. Thanks in the main to the extensive closure of cinemas this year I found myself watching a huge amount of streaming service offerings and decided to share with you my favourites. There is only one thing to note and that … Continue reading 2020 – Year in Review – Television
Hunter (Haley Bennett) is a newly pregnant housewife in a picture perfect life. Her husband Richie (Austin Stowell) and his family are incredibly wealthy and the couple have just moved into a beautiful mansion. One day though, Hunter is drawn to a marble and the desire to swallow it and the release it gives her … Continue reading Swallow
Bart (Tye Sheridan) is the night clerk at a nearby hotel working the 8pm-4am shift. He also has Aspergers and has wired up one of the hotel rooms in order to spy on the residents to help him copy their mannerisms and fit in better. But when he witnesses a guest being violently beaten he … Continue reading The Night Clerk
An unusual and quirky biopic of Doug Kenney (Will Forte) who was the founder of National Lampoon and the creative mind behind Animal House and Caddyshack. At the very opening of the movie an older Doug Kenney tells us that we won’t know who he is and for my part he was absolutely correct. For … Continue reading A Stupid And Futile Gesture
Chicago, 1927. On a hot summers day Ma Rainey (Viola Davis) and her band have a recording session and talented horn player Levee (Chadwick Boseman) has his eyes on his own stardom as well as Rainey’s girlfriend. Denzel Washington has been tasked with bringing playwright August Wilson’s “Century Cycle” to film and this is the … Continue reading Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
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