Better known for her role as psychopathic vampire Drusilla in the popular fantasy series Buffy Vampire Slayer, writer-director Juliet Landau delivers a rather disappointing first feature in…
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In The Climb, director Michael Angelo Covino presents a downbeat and deliciously off-kilter comedy which spans years in the life of Mike (Covino) and Kyle (co writer…
Comments closedAfter three decades as an actor Regina King’s directorial debut One Night in Miami is a vibrant look at the conflicts and battles that defined the civil…
Comments closedNew podcast series featuring Daniel Craig, Rami Malek, Léa Seydoux, Lashana Lynch, Jeffrey Wright, Naomie Harris, producers Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli and Billie Eilish No Time To Die: The Official James…
Comments closedArrow Video FrightFest will go virtual for the second time in 2020, having taken the difficult decision to cancel its planned physical event at the Cineworld, Leicester Square.…
Comments closedIt’s been well over a decade since Brit filmmaker Thomas Clay’s last release. Back in the 2000s, Clay impressed on the film festival circuit with the likes…
Comments closedStaring: Amy Adams, Gary Oldman, Julianne Moore, Anthony Mackie, Wyatt Russell In The , a psychological suspense thriller directed by Joe Wright, an agoraphobic child psychologist befriends a neighbour across the street…
Comments closedWaves begins with a dazzling 360-degree spin inside Tyler’s (Kelvin Harrison Jr.) car as he drives with one leg dangling out of the window while singing along to the radio with girlfriend Alexis (Alexa Demie). It’s a beautifully choreographed moment that captures the sparkling chemistry between these young lovers. It’s immediately clear we are in the hands of a filmmaker brimming with ideas and stylistic verve. Trey Edward Shults’ overwhelmingly moving and sumptuously filmed third feature cements him as one of the most thrilling directors working today.
Comments closedIn his new historical drama The Current War, director Alfonso Gomez-Rejon (Me and Earl and the Dying Girl) charts the destructive rivalry between inventors Thomas Edison (Benedict Cumberbatch), George Westinghouse (Michael Shannon) and Nikola Tesla (Nicholas Hoult) as they battle it out to see whose electrical system will illuminate America.
Comments closedChadian director, Mahamat-Saleh Haroun offers us a necessary and political insight into asylum, Europe and family ties. From Bangui to Paris, brothers Abbas (Eriq Ebouaney) and Etienne (Bibi Tanga) escape their country where they both worked as teachers to a new life in a country where they must take jobs as grocers and security guards. Abbas struggles to let go of his old life, speaking to the ghosts of his past but with his son (Ibrahim Burama Darboe) and daughter (Alayna Lys) in tow, he must make ends meet.
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