Cats (2019) Director: Tom Hooper Screenwriters: Lee Hall, Tom Hooper Starring: Francesca Haywood, Taylor Swift, Idris Elba, Laurie Davidson, Rebel Wilson, Judi Dench, Jennifer Hudson, Ian McKellen, James Corden, Jason Derulo, Ray Winstone Yikes. My reaction to the initial ten minutes of Cats was visceral… The film opens with a rich view of the streets […]
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A Separation (2011) Director: Asghar Farhadi Screenwriter: Asghar Farhadi Starring: Leila Hatami, Peyman Moaadi, Shahab Hosseini, Babak Karimi, Sareh Bayat, Sarina Farhadi When reflecting upon this decade in film, one thing becomes very apparent: it has been a stellar ten years for International cinema. Just this year, South Korea’s Parasite demonstrated a masterclass in storytelling,
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Ema (2019) Director: Pablo Larraín Screenwriters: Guillermo Calderón, Alejandro Moreno Starring: Mariana Di Girolamo, Gael Garcia Bernal, Santiago Cabrera, Paola Giannini, Cristián Suárez, Mariana Loyola One of the most alive, bustling and energetic movies of 2019, Pablo Larraín’s intense and morally atypical character study combines the trademark features of some of Europe’s most provocative filmmakers
Jojo Rabbit (2019) Director: Taika Waititi Screenwriter: Taika Waititi Starring: Roman Griffin Davis, Thomas McKenzie, Sam Rockwell, Scarlett Johansson, Taika Waititi, Rebel Wilson, Stephen Merchant, Alfie Allen, Archie Yates Satire has always been one of cinema’s more daring genres, from Stanley Kubrick’s sharp and bizarre 1964 film Dr. Strangelove to the modern works of Armando
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This review was written by Holly Weaver and originally published at Screen Queens. The Aeronauts (2019) Director: Tom Harper Screenwriter: Jack Thorne Starring: Eddie Redmayne, Felicity Jones, Himesh Patel Tom Harper’s biographical adventure film The Aeronauts puts fiction before fact from the moment the words ‘inspired by true events’ flash onto the screen. It is not a
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Official Secrets (2019) Director: Gavin Hood Screenwriters: Gregory Bernstein, Sara Bernstein, Gavin Hood Starring: Keira Knightley, Matt Smith, Matthew Goode, Rhys Ifans, Ralph Fiennes, Katherine Kelly, Indira Varma, MyAnna Buring, Tamsin Greig, Shaun Dooley Keira Knightley is the lead of a star-studded British cast for X-Men Origins: Wolverine and Eye in the Sky director Gavin Hood’s retrospective reevaluation of
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Ham on Rye (2019) Director: Tyler Taormina Screenwriters: Tyler Taormina, Eric Berger Starring: Haley Bodell, Cole Devine, Aaron Schwartz Ham on Rye is a truly unique film based in suburbia as summer is beginning. It’s divided into two halves, each contrasting in thematic focus and visual composition. There is no protagonist; instead the film follows
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Brightburn (2019) Director: David Yarovesky Screenwriters: Brian Gunn, Mark Gunn Starring: Elizabeth Banks, Davis Denman, Jackson A. Dunn I’ve waited so long for a great superhero-horror film, yet while Brightburn hooked me with its villainous Superman premise, it failed to deliver enough on the “superhero” portion; the film is structured and paced more like a
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Captive State (2019) Director: Rupert Wyatt Screenwriters: Erica Beeney, Rupert Wyatt Starring: John Goodman, Ashton Sanders, Jonathan Majors, Machine Gun Kelly When you saw Battlefield Earth did you think you needed a more complicated version? If so, here’s some good news… that’s what Captive State is. The premises of both films are that an alien force
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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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