DIRECTOR: David Osit CAST: Musa Hadid RUNNING TIME: 89 mins CERTIFICATE: 15 BASICALLY…: Musa Hadid, the Christian mayor of Ramallah, Palestine, attempts to revitalise his city during his second term in office… NOW FOR THE REVIEW… 2021 has only just...
BEST OF 2020: #5-1
Finally, we can reveal our top five picks of 2020… 5 – DA 5 BLOODS Spike Lee has now reached a point in his long and illustrious career where his films carry an even more exceptional weight than when he first began, especially with everything that’s happened over the...
BEST OF 2020: #10-6
We’re kicking off our Top 10 with… 10 – UNCLE FRANK Writer-director Alan Ball’s return to the big screen, after thirteen years of largely being buried in television projects, was released around the same time as Ron Howard’s Hillbilly Elegy, which also dealt with...
BEST OF 2020: #15-11
Finally, we’re done spreading negativity in a year that’s been nothing but negativity. Now, we can focus on the brightest spots of 2020 cinema, and which films captured our hearts and minds either in cinemas or at home (mostly at home). Before that, though, here are...
We Can Be Heroes (Review)
DIRECTOR: Robert Rodriguez CAST: YaYa Gosselin, Priyanka Chopra, Pedro Pascal, Christian Slater, Boyd Holbrook, Sung Kang, Taylor Dooley, Akira Akbar, Haley Reinhart, Andy Walken, Andrew Diaz, Brently Heilbron, Hala Finley, Isaiah Russell-Bailey, Lotus Blossom, Lyon...
WORST OF 2020: #5-1
In a year of atrocities, these five movies made 2020 all the more unbearable… 5 – THE WRONG MISSY Poor David Spade… and I really do mean that. Here was a comically gifted SNL veteran who, when he wanted to, could pull off a charming and funny turn every once in a...
WORST OF 2020: #10-6
Time to reveal our Top (or Bottom, in this case) 10, starting with… 10 – THE RHYTHM SECTION James Bond’s next outing may have been pushed back into next year, but they made damn sure that we got this dull 007 wannabe out before everything went pear-shaped. Coming from...
WORST OF 2020: #15-11
So… 2020. What else is there to say about it that hasn’t already been said? It goes without saying that this has been an extremely difficult year for all of us, with much of it dominated by the COVID-19 pandemic which has forced the country into a new set of...
Sylvie’s Love (Review)
DIRECTOR: Eugene Ashe CAST: Tessa Thompson, Nnamdi Asomugha, Aja Naomi King, Ryan Michelle Bathe, Regé-Jean Page, Eva Longoria, John Magaro, Ed Weeks, Lance Reddick, Jemima Kirke, MC Lyte, Alano Miller, Erica Gimpel, Tone Bell, Wendi McLendon-Covey, Ron Funches,...
The Racer (Review)
DIRECTOR: Kieron J. Walsh CAST: Louis Talpe, Matteo Simoni, Tara Lee, Iain Glen, Karel Roden, Timo Wagner, Diogo Cid, Ward Kerremans, Paul Robert, Anthony Mairs, Eoin Byrne, Ozan Saygi, Sebastian Collet RUNNING TIME: 95 mins CERTIFICATE: 15 BASICALLY…: A cyclist...