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Judas and the Black Messiah (2021) Review
Judas and the Black Messiah (2021) Director: Shaka King Screenwriters: Shaka King, Will Berson Starring: Daniel Kaluuya, LaKeith Stanfield, Dominique Fishback, Jesse Plemons As Daniel Kaluuya’s Fred Hampton, Chairman of the Illinois Chapter of the Black Panther Party says, “you can murder a revolutionary, but you can’t murder a revolution”. Unfortunately, as told in the…
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To All the Boys: Always and Forever (2021) Review
To All the Boys: Always and Forever (2021) Director: Michael Fimognari Screenwriters: Katie Lovejoy, Jenny Han Starring: Lana Condor, Noah Centineo, Janel Parrish, Anna Cathcart It has been three years since the surprisingly loveable first instalment of Jenny Han’s To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before series landed on Netflix. We met Lara Jean Covey,…
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‘The Silence of the Lambs’ at 30 – Review
This article was originally published to SSP Thinks Film by Sam Sewell-Peterson. The Silence of the Lambs (1991) Director: Jonathan Demme Screenwriter: Ted Tally Starring: Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, Ted Levine, Scott Glenn, Brooke Smith, Frankie Faison, Anthony Heald, Kasi Lemmons, Diane Baker, Stuart Rudin In the foreword to the new edition of his novel “Red Dragon”…
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Crazy, Stupid, Love. (2011) Review
Crazy, Stupid, Love. (2011) Directors: Glenn Ficarra, John Requa Screenwriter: Dan Fogelman Starring: Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling, Julianne Moore, Emma Stone, Kevin Bacon, Marisa Tomei, Analeigh Tipton, Jonah Bobo Well-written and lavishly-casted romantic comedies have been somewhat hard to find in recent years. The most memorable rom-coms of all time are positioned neatly in the…
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Malcolm and Marie (2021) Review
Malcolm & Marie (2021) Director: Sam Levinson Screenwriter: Sam Levinson Starring: John David Washington, Zendaya The Covid-19 pandemic has had an incontrovertible impact on the arts – closing theatres, cinemas, galleries and museums worldwide, and disrupting and delaying the production and release of numerous films, TV shows and live events for months or years. One interesting…
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Greenland (2021) Review
Greenland (2021) Director: Ric Roman Waugh Screenwriter: Chris Sparling Starring: Gerard Butler, Morena Baccarin, Roger Dale Floyd, Scott Glenn Well made extinction event movies come around so infrequently that the 1990s’ trio of blockbuster hits Independence Day, Armageddon and Deep Impact remain fondly remembered even in spite of middling reviews and a number of laughable moments. Since the…
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Rocks (2020) Review
Rocks (2020) Director: Sarah Gavron Screenwriters: Theresa Ikoko, Claire Wilson Starring: Bukky Bakray, Kosar Ali, D’Angelou Osei Kissiedu, Shaneigha-Monik Greyson, Sarah Niles The British film industry has a strange fixation with putting on appearances. Looking at Oscar winners and nominees of years past, the films our small isle pushes forward the most are royalty, literature…
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The Dig (2021) Review
The Dig (2021) Director: Simon Stone Screenwriters: Moira Buffini, John Preston Starring: Ralph Fiennes, Carey Mulligan, Lily James, Johnny Flynn, Ken Stott, Ben Chaplin, Monica Dolan In recent months we have all had time for more introspection than usual, and we have each been faced with a seemingly endless barrage of moral conundrums and existential…
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A Secret Love (2020) Review
A Secret Love (2020) Director: Chris Bolan Screenwriters: Chris Bolan, Alexa L. Fogel, Brendan Mason Starring: Terry Donahue, Pat Henschel, Diana Bolan A Secret Love tells the story of Terry Donahue, a former All-American Girl’s Professional League Baseball player and her partner of 70 years, Pat Henschel. The documentary is sparked by Terry and Pat…
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Assassins (2021) Review
Assassins (2020) Director: Ryan White In February 2017, the first son of the late North Korean leader Kim Jong-il was assassinated in plain view at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport. One of the world’s most dangerous poisons, a VX nerve agent, was rubbed onto his face and eyes, killing him within an hour of seeking…