Release Date – 15th December 2024, Cert – 18, Run-time – 2 hours 15 minutes, Director – Luca Guadagnino William Lee (Daniel Craig) spends his days wandering around Mexico City, slitting between searches for love, hook-ups and the answers to the universe – the key to all of these may be held by younger manContinue reading “LFF 2024: Queer – Review”
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LFF 2024: The Piano Lesson – Review
Release Date – 8th November 2024, Cert – 12, Run-time – 2 hours 7 minutes, Director – Malcolm Washington Pittsburgh 1936, brother and sister Boy Willie (John David Washington) and Berniece (Danielle Deadwyler) argue about what to do with the family piano, featuring etchings of their ancestral roots and story, sell it or keep it.Continue reading “LFF 2024: The Piano Lesson – Review”
LFF 2024: Grand Theft Hamlet – Review
Release Date – 6th December 2024, Cert – 15, Run-time – 1 hour 30 minutes, Directors – Pinny Grylls, Sam Crane Out of work due to the COVID lockdown, actors Sam Crane and Mark Oosterveen decide to stage a production of Hamlet in GTA V Online, with an ensemble of other players. Grand Theft HamletContinue reading “LFF 2024: Grand Theft Hamlet – Review”
LFF 2024: Rumours – Review
Release Date – 6th December 2024, Cert – 15, Run-time – 1 hour 44 minutes, Directors – Evan Johnson, Galen Johnson, Guy Maddin The G7 leaders find themselves lost in the woods, where they are left alone to draft a statement, facing strange creatures as they try to get back to safety. Rumours feels likeContinue reading “LFF 2024: Rumours – Review”
LFF 2024: Conclave – Review
Release Date – 29th November 2024, Cert – 12, Run-time – 2 hours, Director – Edward Berger Cardinal Lawrence (Ralph Fiennes) is tasked with arranging the election of a new pope, whilst trying to find someone without a hidden dark past secrets of multiple likely candidates are revealed. Having faced the upfront horrors of warContinue reading “LFF 2024: Conclave – Review”
Heretic – Review
Cert – 15, Run-time – 1 hour 51 minutes, Directors – Scott Beck, Bryan Woods Two Mormon missionaries (Sophie Thatcher, Chloe East) find themselves trapped in the home of a man (Hugh Grant) determined to test their faith through a set of test and choices he constructs. The trailers, and indeed posters, for Heretic giveContinue reading “Heretic – Review”
Juror #2 – Review
Release Date – 1st November 2024, Cert – 12, Run-time – 1 hour 54 minutes, Director – Clint Eastwood Justin Kemp (Nicholas Hoult) is called to jury service with just a matter of weeks until his wife (Zoey Deutch) is due to give birth, however when he may have committed the murder the case isContinue reading “Juror #2 – Review”
LFF 2024: Anora – Review
Release Date – 1st November 2024, Cert – 18, Run-time – 2 hours 19 minutes, Director – Sean Baker Sex worker Ani (Mikey Madison) marries Vanya (Mark Eydelshteyn), the son of a Russian oligarch, his family are soon racing to New York to get the marriage annulled. Anora (Mikey Madison) is a force to be reckonedContinue reading “LFF 2024: Anora – Review”
Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story – Review
Release Date – 1st November 2024, Cert – 12, Run-time – 1 hour 44 minutes, Directors – Ian Bonhôte, Peter Ettedgui Documentary looking at Superman actor Christopher Reeve and his life of activism for disabled people, and search for a cure for those, like him, paralysed by spinal cord injuries. Of course, a documentary aboutContinue reading “Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story – Review”
LFF 2024: Piece By Piece – Review
Release Date – 8th November 2024, Cert – PG, Run-time – 1 hour 34 minutes, Director – Morgan Neville Biographical documentary charting the life of Pharrell Williams, and his rise in the music industry, told through Lego animation. Colour pours of the speakers as a smile spreads across the face of a young Lego PharrellContinue reading “LFF 2024: Piece By Piece – Review”
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