Sundance London 2021 Review Roundup: Writing With Fire, Cryptozoo and Human Factors
As Press Screenings for Sundance London 2021 come to a close, I eagerly await my public screenings of Censor and the Surprise Film. Meanwhile, here’s...
Month: July 2021
Sundance London 2021 ‘Misha and the Wolves’: Overwrought Doc that Buries the Lead
In 1997 Misha Defonseca published a book recounting her extraordinary childhood experience of pursuing her parents through Nazi occupied Europe. On the verge of starvation...
Sundance London 2021 ‘Zola’ Review: Viral Twitter becomes Thrilling Cinema
In 148 tweets, Aziah “Zola” King recounted a shocking story of a stripper’s road trip gone bizarrely and dangerously wrong. Janicza Bravo now realises this...
‘Old’ Review: Shyamalan Horror Plays into Some of His Best Weaknesses
A holidaying family find themselves stuck on a beach that they find themselves unable to leave. Trapped with another family, a couple, a cagey man,...
Sundance London 2021 ‘The Sparks Brothers’ Review: The Artistic Importance of Failure
Filmmaker Edgar Wright chronicles roughly fifty years of work from the brothers Ron and Russell Mael, the co-founders and only constant members of band Sparks....
Sundance London 2021 ‘Together Together’ Review: Sweetly Endearing Pregnancy Comedy
Feeling he is missing out and sick of waiting for the right partner to come along, Matt (Ed Helms) decides to become a single father...
Sundance London 2021 “The Blazing World” Review: Visually Striking, but Fundamentally Lacking Horror-Fantasy
Sharing a name (and not too much else) with Margaret Cavendish’s bold and imaginative 17th century work, The Blazing World sees Director, co-writer and star Carlson Young...
‘Black Widow’ Review: Marvel’s Espionage Thriller Doesn’t Pull Any Punches (except in its action)
Shortly after becoming a fugitive from global authorities, Natasha “Black Widow” Romanov (Scarlet Johanson) is contacted by her long lost “sister” Yelena (Florence Pugh). Holding...
The Clones Cast – The Gold Connection (1979)
The Gold Connection (1979) Welcome (back) to the Clones Cast. We have gone audio, and video, so make sure you take a look: TheClones Cast...
AI: Artificial Intelligence Turns 20 and is Speilberg’s Darkest Film
Spielberg has never been afraid of the dark. Indeed his films often, unusually, use light as source of terror. Think of the alien presence that...