From the London Film Festival: Mudbound
Mudbound is the new Netflix original movie, and yet another jab at any critic who believes the streaming service is unable to make compelling and...
Author: Paul Salt
From the London Film Festival: Wrath of Silence Review
A young boy is herding his sheep in the mountains in China. When he fails to return home, his mute father goes looking for him....
From the London Film Festival: A Fantastic Woman, Roller Dreams and The Summit
‘A Fantastic Woman’ A young woman named Marina, witnesses the dramatic death of her older lover. As a transgender woman she then is then forced...
Andy Serkis’s ‘Breathe’ is Sincere, Crowd-pleasing and a Bit Conventional
Today is the first day of the London Film Festival! I was invited to attend a screening of the Opening Night Gala ahead of its...
From the London Film Festival: 1%, Lean on Pete and Foxtrot
‘1%’ 1% is about large men in leather jackets with big beards, but also big emotions?! The film involves a biker gang whose president has...
‘Mother!’ Review: Aronofsky’s Latest Confounds and Compells
Mother! is the new film by the director of Black Swan. For most of the film’s runtime that felt like Darren Aronofsky’s most pertinent credit....
From the London Film Festival: ‘Beauty and the Dogs’ Review
Late one night in Tunisia, a girl leaves a party with a man. Sometime later the girl is raped by two police officers whilst the...
Dolores Claiborne: The Hidden Gem of Stephen King Adaptations?
Kathy Bates appeared in two Stephen King adaptations in the early nineties and although she won her Oscar for Misery, she insists that her preferred...
From the London Film Festival: ‘Let the Corpses Tan’
Let the Corpses Tan is An utterly bizarre psychosexual thriller from the unique minds of Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani, the writer-director team behind the...
From the London Film Festival: ‘Promised Land’
A documentary film crew buy Elvis’s old Rolls Royce and drive it around the United States of America. Along the way they pickup celebrity passengers...