Year: 2023 Runtime: 97 minutes Director: Brittany Snow Writers: Becca Gleason, Brittany Snow Actors: Courtney Eaton, Francesca Reale, Thomas Mann, Dave Bautista, Joel McHale, Gina Rodriguez, Kid Cudi By Nadine Whitney “I want to be okay with me” – Riley Writer and director Brittany Snow’s debut feature “Parachute” is an intimate and impartial examination of the difficulty in dealing with persistent mental health issues and … Continue reading Review: Parachute
By Caz Armstrong “Civil War” (2024) takes us on an exhilarating and violent ride across a not-too-distant America torn apart by civil war. Morgan Roberts has written a great review of it here but the film opens the door to discussion about women in conflict and female photographers. Women have been on the front lines as long as there has been recorded conflict. Look at … Continue reading “Civil War” and Women in Armed Conflict
Year: 2022 Runtime: 92 minutes Director: Vera Drew Writers: Vera Drew, Bri LeRose Actors: Vera Drew, Griffin Kramer, Lynn Downey, Kane Distler, Nathan Faustyn, David Liebe Hart, Phil Braun By Taylor Hunsberger Right out of the gate I can tell you that Vera Drew’s “The People’s Joker” is the most original and interesting piece of media I have seen in years. What Drew has managed … Continue reading Review: The People’s Joker
Year: 2024 Runtime: 119 minutes Director: Arkasha Stevenson Writers: Arkasha Stevenson, Tim Smith, Keith Thomas, Ben Jacoby (Story By) Starring: Nell Tiger Free, Ralph Ineson, Bill Nighy, Sonia Braga, Nicole Sorace By Tom Moore On paper, “The First Omen” – a prequel to the 1973 horror classic “The Omen” – should’ve been another failed attempt at trying to revive a well-known horror IP. After all, … Continue reading Film Review: The First Omen
by Sarah Manvel The first Muslim International Film Festival, an innovative new addition to the global festival calendar, had its press launch yesterday. It will run from the 30 May to 2 June in central London and is allegedly the first film festival in Europe to focus on movies made in and/or by the Muslim world. It will consist of two programmes of short films … Continue reading Muslim International Film Festival Launches in London
By Brian Skutle The eternal struggle between man and nature has not been this comical since the early days of Elmer Fudd hunting Bugs Bunny, and it’s a blessing. I first watched Mike Cheslik’s delirious slapstick comedy, “Hundreds of Beavers” (2023), as I was catching up with some of the movies I missed during last year’s Atlanta Film Festival online. Immediately, I was in love … Continue reading “Hundreds of Beavers”: A Looney Live-Action Comedy
Year: 2024 Runtime: 109 minutes Director/Writer: Alex Garland Starring: Kirsten Dunst, Wagner Moura, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Cailee Spaeny, Nick Offerman, Jefferson White, Nelson Lee, Evan Lai, Sonoya Mizuno By Morgan Roberts “Our mission is to report these horrors of war with accuracy and without prejudice. We always have to ask ourselves whether the level of risk is worth the story. What is bravery, and what … Continue reading Review: Civil War
Year:2024 Runtime: 122 minutes Directed by: Sam Taylor-Johnson Written by: Matt Greenhalgh Starring: Jack O’Connell, Marisa Abela, Lesley Manville, Eddie Marsan, Bronson Webb, Juliet Cowan By Sarah Manvel In 2009 writer Matt Greenhalgh and director Sam Taylor-Johnson collaborated on “Nowhere Boy,” which was about how John Lennon the young man became John Lennon the Beatle. Now in 2024 writer Matt Greenhalgh and director Sam Taylor-Johnson … Continue reading Review: Back to Black
Year: 1934 Runtime: 105 minutes Director: Frank Capra Writer: Robert Riskin, Samuel Hopkins Adams (based on his short story) Actors: Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert, Walter Connolly, Jameson Thomas, Charles C. Wilson By Joan Amenn This film is the stuff of Hollywood legend. It was shot in just a few weeks with lead actors who did not even want to be on set. One of them … Continue reading Pre-Code April: It Happened One Night
Year: 2023 Runtime: 73 minutes Writers/Directors: Chiara Malta, Sébastien Laudenbach Actors: Mélinée Leclerc, Clotilde Hesme, Laetitia Dosch, Esteban, Patrick Pineau, Claudine Acs, Jean-Marie Fonbonne, Antoine Momey, Scarlett Cholleton, Alenza Dus, Anais Weller, Milan Cerisier, Nahil Mostefa, Pietro Sermonti, and Anna Parent By Joan Amenn If anyone were to say to me that animation is for children, this is one of the films I would show them … Continue reading Animated April Review: Chicken for Linda!
In Their Own League 