Author Archives: Jamie Skinner

Release Date – TBC, Cert – N/A, Run-time – 1 hour 25 minutes, Director – Quentin Reynaud A father (André Dussollier) and son (Alex Lutz) try to escape a rapidly spreading wildfire. Often in disaster films it’s the grand-scale levels of – as the genre name might imply – disaster that have some form ofContinue reading “LFF 2022: The Blaze – Review”

Release Date – 16th June 2023, Cert – 15, Run-time – 1 hour 50 minutes, Director – Dionne Edwards Travis (Natey Jones) begins to explore his identity after being released from prison through secretly wearing a dress he buys for his partner (Alexandra Burke) for a musical audition. As Travis (Natey Jones) looks at theContinue reading “LFF 2022: Pretty Red Dress – Review”

Release Date – 17th March 2023, Cert – 15, Run-time – 1 hour 37 minutes, Director – Kristoffer Borgli Competing with her boyfriend’s (Eirik Sæther) rise in fame, Signe (Kristine Kujath Thorp) does everything she can to regain attention through whatever medical means necessary. Sick Of Myself not only brings attention seeking to a newContinue reading “LFF 2022: Sick Of Myself – Review”

Release Date – TBC, Cert – N/A, Run-time – 1 hour 50 minutes, Director – Hansal Mehta Retelling of the 2016 terrorist attack on the Holey Artisan Bakery in Bangladesh, also told through the eyes of the family of teenager Faraaz (Zahan Kapoor). There’s no denying that once the violence within Faraaz begins it doesn’tContinue reading “LFF 2022: Faraaz – Review”

Release Date – 21st October 2022, Cert – N/A, Run-time – 1 hour 39 minutes, Director – Martin Syms Art student Palace (Diamond Stingily) is thrown into a heady mix of parties as she says goodbye to her friends on her final day of college. It should be stated that I’m almost certainly not theContinue reading “LFF 2022: The African Desperate – Review”

Release Date – TBC, Cert – N/A, Run-time – 1 hour 52 minutes, Director – Jung Bum-shik A group of strangers find themselves walking into increasingly strange, and occasionally deadly, situations within their everyday lives. New Normal is perhaps one of the most baffling films I have seen in quite some time. Largely down toContinue reading “LFF 2022: New Normal – Review”

Release Date – TBC, Cert – N/A, Run-time – 1 hour 30 minutes, Director – Tim Mackenzie-Smith Documentary looking at the work and influence of eclectic 70s band Cymande. “I always wanted the bass to be an instrument that speaks” explains Steve Scipio in an interview delving into the various elements of the music ofContinue reading “LFF 2022: Getting It Back: The Story Of Cymande – Review”

Release Date – 16th June 2023, Cert – 15, Run-time – 1 hour 22 minutes, Director – Fridtjof Ryder After returning home after time in a psychiatric hospital a young man (Rory Alexander) begins to delve into his past and disappeared mother. There’s a divide between the naturalistic and the arthouse within writer-director Fridtjof Ryder’sContinue reading “LFF 2022: Inland – Review”