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...
Author: Paul Salt
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...
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...
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...
LFF 2019 ‘The Two Popes’ Review: Fathers in Arms
Pope Benedict XVI (Anthony Hopkins) and Archbishop Francis Bergoglio (Jonathan Pryce) both wish to retire. They each have ambitions to return to their flocks and...
Lff 2019 ‘You Don’t Nomi’ Review: Exposing Showgirls
This documentary explores Paul Verhoven‘s 1995 film Showgirls. In three stages it explores the film as a disaster, a masterpiece and a camp classic. Considering...
LFF 2019 ‘The Personal History of David Copperfield’ Review: Charming, Playful, Wonderful
David Copperfield is born into a household beset with misfortune. Owing to a cruel stepfather, he is made to travel to London to work in...
LFF 2019 ‘The Lighthouse’ Review: Sheer Madness
Ephraim Winslow (Robert Pattinson) takes a lonely role working a lighthouse on an otherwise uninhabited remote island with only his employer for company (Willem Dafoe)....
LFF 2019 ‘Jojo Rabbit’ Review: Seriously Funny
Jojo (Roman Griffin Davis) is a young boy in the Hitler Youth. He’s a devoted fascist who hates the evil Jews and has an imaginary...
LFF 2019 ‘La Llorona’ Review: War Criminal Haunted by the Righteous Dead
An elderly general responsible for horrific atrocities that has secured his families wealth faces trial for his crimes. As it looks likely he will once...