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Birds of Passage (2018) Review
Birds of Passage (2018) Directors: Cristina Gallego & Ciro Guerra Screenwriters: Maria Camila Arias & Jacques Toulemonde Vidal Starring: Carmiña Martínez, Natalia Reyes, José Acosta, Jhon Narváez Colombian director Ciro Guerra transposes his nuanced exploration of indigenous tradition so electrically realised in his 2015 film Embrace of the Serpent to his home territory. Teaming with…
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Fighting With My Family (2019) Review
Fighting With My Family (2019) Director: Stephen Merchant Screenwriter: Stephen Merchant Starring: Florence Pugh, Jack Lowden, Lena Headey, Nick Frost, Vince Vaughn, Dwayne Johnson Stephen Merchant’s movie about wrestling isn’t just any old titter-tattered attempt at recreating the spectacle and pomposity of the WWE, nor is it a recreation of the down-trodden reality check that…
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Shoplifters (2018) Review
This article was originally published to SSP Thinks Film by Sam Sewell-Peterson. Shoplifters (2018) Director: Hirokazu Koreeda Screenwriter: Hirokazu Koreeda Starring: Lily Franky, Sakura Andô, Kirin Kiki, Mayu Matsuoka, Jyo Kairi, Miyu Sasaki The list of Japanese films about petty crime and forgotten underclasses is short. The other that immediately springs to mind is Tokyo Godfathers and like…
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Can You Ever Forgive Me? (2018/19) Review
This article was originally published on SSP Thinks Film by Sam Sewell-Peterson. Can You Ever Forgive Me? (2018/19) Director: Marielle Heller Screenwriters: Nicole Holofcener, Jeff Whitty Starring: Melissa McCarthy, Richard E. Grant, Dolly Wells, Ben Falcone Marielle Heller’s Can You Ever Forgive Me? deftly tells a story that is so bizarre it could only be true, with…
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BlackKklansman (2018) Review
This article was originally published on SSP Thinks Film by Sam Sewell-Peterson. BlackKklansman (2018) Director: Spike Lee Screenwriters: Spike Lee, David Rabinowitz, Kevin Willmott, Charlie Wachtel Starring: John David Washington, Adam Driver, Topher Grace, Isiah Whitlock Jr., Robert John Burke, Brian Tarantina, Michael Buscemi, Laura Harrier, Alec Baldwin I’m still reeling from the final moments of BlackKklansman –…
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Black Panther (2018) Review
This article was originally published on SSP Thinks Film by Sam Sewell-Peterson. Black Panther (2018) Director: Ryan Coogler Screenwriters: Ryan Coogler, Joe Robert Cole Starring: Chadwick Boseman, Michael B. Jordan, Lupita Nyong’o, Danai Gurira, Martin Freeman, Daniel Kaluuya, Letitia Wright, Winston Duke, Sterling K. Brown, Angela Bassett, Forest Whitaker, Andy Serkis As thrilled and enthralled…
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Animal Behaviour (2018) Oscar Nominated Short Film Review
Animal Behaviour (2018) Directors: David Fine, Alison Snowden Screenwriters: David Fine, Alison Snowden Starring: Ryan Biel, Taz Van Rassel, Leah Juel, Andrea Libman, Toby Berner, James Kirk, Alison Snowden Witty and charming, and featuring some excellent characterisation, David Fine and Alison Snowden’s Oscar nominated animated short film Animal Behaviour is perhaps the most laugh out loud of the 2019…
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Weekends (2017) Oscar Nominated Short Film Review
Weekends (2017) Director: Trevor Jimenez Screenwriter: Trevor Jimenez Trevor Jimenez’s Oscar-nominated animated short film, brought to the screen by Past Lives Productions, is an inventive piece of cinema that speaks in metaphor to the parts of us that grow and adapt to periods of profound change while honouring the parts of us that never want…
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One Small Step (2018) Oscar Nominated Short Film Review
One Small Step (2018) Directors: Andrew Chesworth, Bobby Pontillas Screenwriters: Andrew Chesworth, Bobby Pontillas Taiko Studios’s Oscar nominated animated short film One Small Step, from the minds of Andrew Chesworth and Bobby Pontillas and telling the tale of a Chinese American girl’s pursuit of becoming an astronaut, is some of the richest evidence available that the (almost)…
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Late Afternoon (2017) Oscar Nominated Short Film Review
Late Afternoon (2017) Director: Louise Bagnall Screenwriter: Louise Bagnall Starring: Louise Bagnall, Fionnula Flanagan, Aislin Konings Ferrari, Michael McGrath, Niamh Moyles, Caoimhe Ní Bhrádaigh, Lucy O’Connell Louise Bagnall’s delicately told tale of an elderly woman rediscovering old memories through a series of triggers in Late Afternoon is wholesome, empathetic animated cinema told with a true compassion and…