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No Time to Die (2021) Review
No Time to Die (2021) Director: Cary Joji Fukunaga Screenwriters: Neal Purvis, Robert Wade, Cary Joji Fukunaga, Phoebe Waller-Bridge Starring: Daniel Craig, Rami Malek, Léa Seydoux, Lashana Lynch, Ralph Fiennes, Christoph Waltz, Ben Whishaw, Naomie Harris, Jeffrey Wright, Billy Magnussen, Ana de Armas, David Dencik, Rory Kinnear Daniel Craig’s last hurrah as James Bond has…
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Ride the Eagle (2021) Review
Ride the Eagle (2021) Director: Trent O’Donnell Screenwriters: Jake Johnson, Trent O’Donnell Starring: Jake Johnson, Susan Sarandon, D’Arcy Carden, J.K. Simmons Fresh out of the pandemic comes Jake Johnson and Trent O’Donnell’s newest collaboration, Ride The Eagle. The pair, who worked alongside one another on the hit comedy TV series ‘New Girl’ for several years,…
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Isle of Dogs (2018) Review
Isle of Dogs (2018) Director: Wes Anderson Screenwriters: Wes Anderson, Roman Coppola Starring: Bryan Cranston, Jeff Goldblum, Bill Murray, Tilda Swinton, Harvey Keitel, Greta Gerwig, Yoko Ono Following on from the critical and public smash that was The Grand Budapest Hotel, Wes Anderson returned to screens after a break of four years with 2018’s Isle of Dogs.…
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Delphine’s Prayers (2021) Open City Documentary Festival Review
Delphine’s Prayers/Les prières de Delphine (2021) Director: Rosine Mbakam The latest feature documentary from Belgium-based Cameroonian filmmaker Rosine Mbakam, a documentarian well regarded for spotlighting the experiences of African migrant women, is an extended interview with Delphine, a 30 year-old fellow Cameroonian immigrant to Belgium with a captivating if harrowing life story to tell. While…
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Songs for the River (2021) Open City Documentary Festival Review
Songs for the River (2021) Director: Charlotte Ginsborg Like many world-changing disasters, the Coronavirus pandemic has already inspired some great art, from Cold War Steve’s satirical collages on Twitter to Rob Savage’s Zoom horror Host and Kevin Macdonald’s crowd-sourced documentary sequel Life in a Day 2020. Charlotte Ginsborg’s documentary Songs for the River is another important work,…
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Juste un mouvement (2021) Open City Documentary Festival Review
Juste un mouvement/Just A Movement (2021) Director: Vincent Meessen “Cinema can serve to explore the creation of forms, their embryology.” Jean-Luc Godard In 1967, French New Wave auteur Jean-Luc Godard (Breathless) released La Chinoise, a film about French university students studying Maoism, filmed in a cinéma vérité style that deliberately blurred the boundaries between film…
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Everybody’s Talking About Jamie (2021) Review
Everybody’s Talking About Jamie (2021) Director: Jonathan Butterell Screenwriter: Tom MacRae Starring: Max Harwood, Sarah Lancashire, Lauren Patel, Richard E. Grant, Samuel Bottomley, Ralph Ineson The movie musical is a genre with some of the most impressive staying power in all of cinema. Classics from Disney are beloved all across the world and the likes…
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Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021) Review
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021) Director: Destin Daniel Cretton Screenwriters: Dave Callaham, Destin Daniel Cretton, Andrew Lanham Starring: Simu Liu, Awkwafina, Tony Leung, Meng’er Zhang, Fala Chen, Michelle Yeoh, Florian Muneanu, Andy Le, Benedict Wong Shang-Chi has come a long way since his first appearance in Marvel Comics nearly 50 years…
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‘Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy’ at 10 – Review
This article was originally published to SSP Thinks Film by Sam Sewell-Peterson. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011) Director: Tomas Alfredson Screenwriters: Bridget O’Connor, Peter Straughan Starring: Gary Oldman, Colin Firth, Mark Strong, Benedict Cumberbatch, Tom Hardy, John Hurt, Toby Jones, Ciarán Hinds, David Dencik, Roger Lloyd Pack, Stephen Graham, Kathy Burke, Simon McBurney Oddly enough, ten years on…
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The Road Dance (2021) EIFF Review
The Road Dance (2021) Director: Richie Adams Screenwriter: Richie Adams Starring: Hermione Corfield, Will Fletcher, Mark Gatiss When thinking of the best cinematic output by country, very few look to Scotland. Cinephiles often go to familiar favourites such as France, Germany and Japan, each with a history of releasing truly outstanding cinema, each with a…