A Love Song for Latasha (2020) Director: Sophia Nahli Allison There is something so inherently poetic about Sophia Nahli Allison’s Oscar-nominated Documentary Short Subject A Love Song for Latasha. Something that imbues every scene with a sense of ethereal resonance. Perhaps it’s the soft spoken voiceover of those who knew Latasha, or the eccentrically designed […]
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Godzilla vs Kong (2021) Director: Adam Wingard Screenwriters: Max Borenstein, Eric Pearson, Michael Dougherty, Terry Rossio, Zach Shields Starring: Alexander Skarsgård, Millie Bobby Brown, Rebecca Hall, Brian Tyree Henry, Julian Dennison, Kaylee Hottle, Damián Bichir, Eliza González, Shun Oguri, Kyle Chandler, Lance Reddick, Hakeem Kae-Kazim It has all come down to this: the ultimate “let
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The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) Director: Wes Anderson Screenwriter: Wes Anderson Starring: Ralph Fiennes, Tony Revolori, Adrien Brody, Willem Dafoe, Tilda Swinton, Bill Murray, Edward Norton, Saoirse Ronan, Harvey Keitel, Jeff Goldblum, Mathieu Amalric, Owen Wilson, Léa Seydoux, Jude Law, Tom Wilkinson, F. Murray Abraham Following the release of the acclaimed Moonrise Kingdom in 2012,
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Fugitive Dreams (2020) Director: Jason Neulander Screenwriter: Jason Neulander Starring: April Matthis, Robbie Tann, Scott Shepherd, O-Lan Jones, David Patrick Kelly, Joey Hood, Soleil Patterson, Sean Avery Huber Next to the Western, the road movie has been the preeminent, nay the default, American movie genre for forever and a day. Journeys in the Land of
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Promising Young Woman (2021) Director: Emerald Fennell Screenwriter: Emerald Fennell Starring: Carey Mulligan, Bo Burnham, Alison Brie, Adam Brody, Jennifer Coolidge, Laverne Cox, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Molly Shannon, Max Greenfield, Chris Lowell Statistics vary depending on location, but, on average, one in every five women will experience some form of sexual assault in their lifetime. It’s
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Rebel Dykes (2021) Directors: Harri Shanahan, Sian Williams Rebel Dykes is the feature length version of the 2016 documentary that explores the lesbian subculture of the same name born out the punk movement in 1980s London. The documentary explores how being a lesbian was not only a sexual orientation but a political identity; presenting the
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Zack Snyder’s Justice League (2021) Director: Zack Snyder Screenwriters: Chris Terrio, Zack Snyder, Will Beall Starring: Henry Cavill, Ben Affleck, Gal Gadot, Ray Fisher, Ezra Miller, Jason Momoa, Ciarán Hinds, Amy Adams, Amber Heard, Connie Nielsen, Robin Wright, Diane Lane, J.K. Simmons, Jeremy Irons, Jared Leto In 2017, Warner Bros. suffered something of a catastrophic
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The Witch (2015) Director: Robert Eggers Screenwriter: Robert Eggers Starring: Anya Taylor-Joy, Ralph Ineson, Kate Dickie, Harvey Scrimshaw, Ellie Grainger, Lucas Dawson On the fifth anniversary of its UK release date, The Witch is still a dominant figure of female empowerment and gruelling societal tension in cinema. And with lead actress Anya Taylor-Joy taking a
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The Winter Lake (2021) Director: Phil Sheerin Screenwriter: David Turpin Starring: Charlie Murphy, Anson Boom, Emma Mackey, Michael McElhatton, Mark McKenna A turlough is a type of lake that disappears and reappears, useful for burying unwanted things in the deep, usually in the hope that said things get sucked away with the water. But what
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Get Carter (1971) Director: Mike Hodges Screenwriter: Mike Hodges Starring: Michael Caine, Ian Hendry, Britt Ekland, John Osborne, Geraldine Moffat, Dorothy White, Bryan Mosley, Alun Armstrong, Petra Markham 50 years after its release, you would imagine that Get Carter would have lost some of its initial sting, especially as the social perception of this film has now been
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