Jamie Skinner

LFF 2023: The Book Of Clarence – Review

Release Date – 19th April 2024 , Cert – 15, Run-time – 2 hours 16 minutes, Director – Jeymes Samuel As debts begin piling up Clarence (LaKeith Stanfield) poses himself as the messiah in order to make money, however this comes with its own consequences. When being interviewed about the controversy surrounding the then newly-releasedContinue reading “LFF 2023: The Book Of Clarence – Review”

LFF 2023: The Bikeriders – Review

Release Date – 21st June 2024, Cert – 15, Run-time – 1 hour 56 minutes, Director – Jeff Nichols A photographer and reporter (Mike Faist) tracks the lives of a 60s motorcycle club as their dynamic shifts with the changing times and faces. The Bikeriders is dominated by an aesthetic of ‘old school cool’. TheContinue reading “LFF 2023: The Bikeriders – Review”

Thanksgiving – Review

Cert – 18, Run-time – 1 hour 46 minutes, Director – Eli Roth A year after a Black Friday tragedy at a supermarket, a masked killer preys upon members of a town they deem responsible for the deaths caused. There’s a self-awareness to Eli Roth’s feature length version of his trailer for Quentin Tarantino andContinue reading “Thanksgiving – Review”

The Hunger Games: The Ballad Of Songbirds And Snakes – Review

Cert – 12, Run-time – 2 hours 37 minutes, Director – Francis Lawrence In a bid to get more people to watch the annual Hunger Games a group of students are made mentors of the tributes to bring more spectacle, Coriolanus Snow (Tom Blyth) views this as a chance to get closer to his futureContinue reading “The Hunger Games: The Ballad Of Songbirds And Snakes – Review”

LFF 2023: All Of Us Strangers – Review

Release Date – 26th January 2024, Cert – 15, Run-time – 1 hour 45 minutes, Director – Andrew Haigh Struggling to write a script and potentially entering into a relationship with a neighbour (Paul Mescal), Adam (Andrew Scott) finds himself exploring what life would be like if his parents (Claire Foy, Jamie Bell) hadn’t passedContinue reading “LFF 2023: All Of Us Strangers – Review”

LFF 2023: The Holdovers – Review

Release Date – 19th January 2024, Cert – 15, Run-time – 2 hours 13 minutes, Director – Alexander Payne Forced to stay at the boarding school he teaches at to look after kids with nowhere to go at Christmas, Paul Hunham (Paul Giamatti) finds himself forming an understanding with a particularly troublesome student (Dominic Sessa).Continue reading “LFF 2023: The Holdovers – Review”

LFF 2023: The Kitchen – Review

Release Date – 12th January 2024, Cert – 15, Run-time – 1 hour 47 minutes, Directors – Kibwe Tavaras, Daniel Kaluuya Whilst planning to move to a better apartment, Izi (Kane Robinson) takes in a bereaved child (Jedaiah Bannerman) to his home in The Kitchen, a block of flats regularly attacked by police trying toContinue reading “LFF 2023: The Kitchen – Review”

LFF 2023: Maestro – Review

Release Date – 24th November 2023, Cert – 15, Run-time – 2 hours 9 minutes, Director – Bradley Cooper Leonard Bernstein (Bradley Cooper) looks back on his life, particularly his changing relationship with Felicia Montealegre (Carey Mulligan). Perhaps one of the best sequences in Maestro is a sequence solely focusing on an orchestra being conductedContinue reading “LFF 2023: Maestro – Review”

Anatomy Of A Fall – Review

Cert – 15, Run-time – 2 hours 32 minutes, Director – Justine Triet After her husband (Samuel Theis) falls to his death novelist Sandra (Sandra Hüller) finds herself put on trial for his murder with the evidence gradually stacking against her. A dummy human crashes onto the shed roof, tied to a rope, pushed from theContinue reading “Anatomy Of A Fall – Review”

Dream Scenario – Review

Cert – 15, Run-time – 1 hour 42 minutes, Director – Kristoffer Borgli Unremarkable college professor Paul Matthews (Nicolas Cage) starts appearing in everyone’s dreams, however these soon become nightmares and in real life he becomes a much-feared figure. There’s a strong potential for a dark bite from Dream Scenario. It’s hinted at in theContinue reading “Dream Scenario – Review”