BFI Film Festival: “Play It Safe” Review
Play it Safe, debut short film written and directed by Mitch Kalisa, premiered this week at the 65th BFI London Film Festival. The film deals with an old but still topical issue: the racism internalized by our society, so deep-rooted […]
BFI Film Festival: “The French Dispatch” Review
By Benedetta Mastronardi Wes Anderson returns to the BFI London Film Festival with the highly anticipated “The French Dispatch”, which received its UK premiere in the venue of the Royal Festival Hall last Sunday 10 October. Anderson transports viewers to an […]
Review: Joseph Ollman’s Short Film “Bitter Sky”
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Joseph Ollman’s short film “Bitter Sky” tells the story of Nia, portrayed by talented Darci Shaw. Together with her possessive adopted father Roy (Richard Harrington) she lives in the Welsh wilderness. Roy forbids her to stay in contact with […]
Review: documentary Notturno – LFF 2020
⭐⭐⭐⭐ Notturno is documentary far removed from that of the mainstream the public are used to seeing on Netflix. That’s not at all to discredit those documentaries at all, many of which are great works and have made some real […]
Review: Horror film ‘Relic’ Terrifying and Touching
⭐⭐⭐⭐ By: Dominic McCafferty Jake Gyllenhaal produced horror flick RELIC is very scary it’s been dubbed the scariest film of 2020 if you are still in need of a fright post-Halloween. There’s nothing more frightening than our own mortality. It’s an […]
Review: One man and his shoes – BFI London Film Festival
⭐⭐⭐⭐ Killing for shoes. It sounds like nonsense, but it happened. Not only once, but several times. The last time it happened was in September 2019. This is one of the dark sides which is brought up in the documentary […]
Review: “Supernova” – BFI London Film Festival
⭐⭐⭐⭐ By: Natalija Asceric Dementia and gay love, combined with deep emotions: This is what Director and Writer Harry Macqueen do so successfully in his new British film “Supernova“. A brilliant cast with Colin Firth and Stanley Tucci as a lovingly […]
Review: “200 meters” – BFI London Film Festival
⭐⭐⭐⭐ By: Natalia Asceric So near and yet so far: this is the feeling which director and writer Ameen Nayfeh portrays successfully in his newest feature film, “200 meters”. Produced by May Odeh. The heartwrenching movie tells the story of Mustafa, […]