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Author: Paul Salt

Posted onOctober 17, 2019July 25, 2020

LFF 2019 ‘First Love’ Review: Partying Like It’s 1999

A terminally ill young boxer and a traumatised young drug addict find each other amidst a chaotic drugs war. Dodging bullets and knives and fists,...

Posted onOctober 15, 2019July 25, 2020

LFF 2019 ‘The Song of Names’ Review: Two Brothers Seperated by the Weight of Tragedy

Dovidi Rappaport disappeared the night before the concert that would have made him a star violinist. He is commonly believed to have died that night....

Posted onOctober 15, 2019July 25, 2020

LFF 2019 ‘The Street’ review: Honest, Sad and Full of Insight into the Soul of London

Filmed in 2016/17, this documentary follows the inhabitants of Hoxton Street in Hackney, London. Tackling subjects like Brexit, gentrification and austerity, the varied inhabitants of...

Posted onOctober 15, 2019July 25, 2020

LFF 2019 ‘A Beautiful Day in the Neighbourhood’ Review: The Neighbour We All Deserve

Mr Roger’s is such a beloved figure in American culture it’s difficult to know the best way into him. A warts and all expose may...

Posted onOctober 15, 2019July 25, 2020

LFF 2019 ‘Fanny Lye Deliver’d’ Review: A Great Reckoning Befalls Maxine Peake and her Puritan Family

In 17th Century England, a young couple (Freddie Fox and Tanya Reynolds) find themselves on the run from puritan law. Taking shelter with a religious...

Posted onOctober 15, 2019July 25, 2020

LFF 2019 ‘The Irishman’ Review: A Mature Crime Epic

Scorsese returns to the genre that made him, with a gangster epic about the life, or claims, of Frank Sheeran (Robert De Niro). Framed as...

Posted onOctober 11, 2019July 25, 2020

LFF 2019 ‘Synchronic’ Review: Bold and Inventive Horror/Sci-Fi

Two New Orleans paramedics (Anthony Mackie and Jaimie Dornan) notice a pattern amongst their stranger cases. Bizarre wounds, out of place objects and the presence...

Posted onOctober 11, 2019July 25, 2020

LFF 2019 ‘The King’ Review: Shakes up the Shakespeare

Hal (Timothee Chalamet) is the eldest son of the king of England (Ben Mendelson). He hates his father, the king, and spends his days drinking...

Posted onOctober 11, 2019July 25, 2020

LFF 2019 ‘Wounds’ review: Does Something Lurk Beneath the Surface?

Will (Armie Hammer) seems happy at the bar he works at. He knows the locals, even the violent ones, and seems capable of maintaining the...

Posted onOctober 11, 2019July 25, 2020

LFF 2019 ‘Öndög’: A Disturbance on the Mongolian Plains

A body is found in the middle of a vast expanse of arid grassland in Mongolia. A guard is left to keep watch. He is...

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