Category Archives: Reviews

Release Date – TBC, Cert – N/A, Run-time – 1 hour 35 minutes, Director – Ken Fero Documentary exposing deaths in prisons, and on the streets, caused by police brutality and the effects that they have had. The brief text-filled trailer for Ultraviolence claims that this is a film that the police and politicians don’tContinue reading “LFF 2020: Ultraviolence – Review”

Release Date – 21st January 2022, Cert – 15, Run-time – 1 hour 33 minutes, Directors – Matt Fifer, Kieran Mulcare Breaking from a string of one night stands Ben (Matt Fifer), trying to cope with the recurring impacts of past sexual trauma, forms an instant connection with Sam (Sheldon D. Brown) New York City,Continue reading “LFF 2020: Cicada – Review”

Release Date – TBC, Cert – N/A, Run-time – 1 hour 35 minutes, Director – Natalia Meta When her voice recordings begin to contain strange background noises Inés (Érica Rivas) begins to experience strange nightmares, further fuelled by the thought that there could be something unknown inside her. It’s been pointed out before, and shallContinue reading “LFF 2020: The Intruder – Review”

Release Date – TBC, Cert – N/A, Run-time – 2 hours 36 minutes, Director – Lav Diaz Three goldminers (Nanding Yousef, Bart Guingona, Don Melvin Boongaling) venture through an expansive jungle to return to their home village. From looking at the filmography of director Lav Diaz two and a half hours is a relatively shortContinue reading “LFF 2020: Genus Pan – Review”

Release Date – 3rd September 2021, Cert – 15, Run-time – 1 hour 25 minutes, Director – Cathy Brady When her sister, Kelly (Nika McGuigan), returns after being missing for several years, Lauren (Nora-Jane Noone) must put up with circulating rumours and their pasts coming back to haunt them in their small Northern Irish borderContinue reading “LFF 2020: Wildfire – Review”

Release Date – TBC, Cert – N/A, Run-time – 1 hour 42 minutes, Director – Matt Hulse Director Matt Hulse recreates his siblings’ punk band, The Hippies, from when he was eleven. Documentarian and short-maker Matt Hulse’s Sound For The Future could easily come across as some sort of breakdown or vanity project, as heContinue reading “LFF 2020: Sound For The Future – Review”

Release Date – 18th June 2021, Cert – 12, Run-time – 1 hour 22 minutes, Director – Jerry Rothwell Documentary, using the memoir of the same name, looking at the experiences of non-speaking autistic people around the world. It would be very easy for me to simply quote masses of Jerry Rothwell’s The Reason IContinue reading “LFF 2020: The Reason I Jump – Review”