BFI Flare ‘Rebel Dykes’ Review: Punk Feminist History with a Bang!
Rebel Dykes recounts the moment in British History when feminism met punk. Following a very close-knit group of friends and lovers who lived together throughout the...
Month: March 2021
BFI Flare 2021 ‘Enfant Terrible’ Review: What is Art Worth?
Following the drama of the short life of film director Rainer Werner Fassbinder (Oliver Masucci). Charting his furious rise from outcast film director to renowned...
BFI Flare 2021 ‘Rurangi’ Review: A Trans Man’s Long Journey Home
Ten years ago Caz left the small dairy town he grew up in. Subsequently he has transitioned and is now a trans activist. Nobody in...
BFI Flare 2021 ‘Jump Darling’ Review: Cloris Leachman’s Final Role is Amongst Her Best!
Russell (Thomas Duplessie) is a struggling actor turned drag artist stays with grandmother who is fighting to remain independent. As he reels from a nasty...
BFI Flare ‘Sweetheart’ Review: Call Me By Your Name at the British Seaside
Aj (Nell Barlow) is stuck on holiday with her family. They reluctantly accept her sexual identity but not her sense of social responsibility and emergent...
‘Judas and the Black Messiah’ Review: The First Great Film of 2021
Recounting the shocking story of Black Panther Chairman Fred Hampton’s (Daniel Kaluuya) last days and his betrayal at the hands of petty thief turned Panther...
BFI Flare ‘My First Summer’ Review: Beautiful and Strange Story of First Love
After her mother commits suicide, hermitic young woman Claudia (Markella Kavenagh) hides in the house, avoiding authorities. Completely unknown to society, she is only able...
BFI Flare 2021 ‘Sublet’ Review: Mellow Tale of Intergenerational Romance
Michael (John Benjamin Hickey) is a travel writer journeying to Tel Aviv for an article. He sublets a small apartment with amateur filmmaker Tomer (Niv...
BFI Flare 2021 ‘Cured’ Review: Fascinating and Terrifying History of Prejudice in Psychiatry
Cured details the history of American Psychiactric attitudes to homosexual people. From decrying any non-heterosexual sexuality as a mental illness to the gradual acceptance of...
‘Raya and the Last Dragon’ Review: Shades of the East
Centuries after the last dragons gave their lives to banish the world of a dark, soul-absorbing force known as the Druun, the guardianship of an...