MEDIA APPEARANCE: Guest on the "Kicking the Seat" podcast and YouTube channel talking "Rebecca"

In my social circles, I tend to be the “movie guy” that offer suggestions on what to see, both new and old, when it comes to movies. It’s a fun rarity when I get to do that with a fellow movie critic. With the arrival of the new Rebecca starring Lily James and Armie Hammer,...

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GUEST CRITIC #42: The Post

As busy I get from time to time, I find that I can't see every movie under the sun, leaving my friends and colleagues to fill in the blanks for me.  As poetically as I think I wax about movies on this website as a wannabe critic, there are other experts out there. ...

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GUEST COLUMN: 10 Films to Motivate You to Study and Improve Yourself

10 Films to Motivate You to Study and Improve Yourself by Esther Crowder Good results in studies are the result of constant effort and dedication. The bad thing is that despite all the work you put into your duties, it may happen that the results are not what you expected....

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Concrete Cowboy ★★★★

Director: Ricky Staub Starring: Idris Elba, Caleb McLaughlin, Jharrel Jerome, Byron Bowers, Lorraine Toussaint, Clifford “Method Man” Smith Released: Toronto International Film Festival Concrete Cowboy tells a tale that is not often represented on the big screen as it depicts the world of black urban cowboys. On the surface, the film stars Idris Elba...

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COLUMN: Best Stoner Movies You Need to Watch This Year

Best Stoner Movies You Need to Watch This Year These days, a lot of people are stuck at home due to social distancing. While it might be a dream for some of us, it's clearly not for everyone. If you are a typical stoner who's looking for ways to keep yourself entertained and...

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GUEST EDITORIAL: Importance of Soundtracks in Movies

Importance of Soundtracks in Movies As everyone knows, in the cinema all films have music that plays throughout the scenes that link the sequences of images and that help you understand and interpret how a character can feel at a specific moment or recognize a moment of suspense,...

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GUEST CRITIC #41: Righteous Kill

As busy I get from time to time, I find that I can't see every movie under the sun, leaving my friends and colleagues to fill in the blanks for me.  As poetically as I think I wax about movies on this website as a wannabe critic, there are other experts out there. ...

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Possessor ★★★★★

Director: Brandon Cronenberg Starring: Andrea Riseborough, Christopher Abbott, Rossif Sutherland, Jennifer Jason Leigh Released: November 27th 2020 (UK) In Possessor, Brandon Cronenberg’s stunningly perverse sophomore effort, the feeling of emotional and physical detachment takes the form of parasitic dystopian tech – an actual “harvester of souls”,...

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Scream: The Last Classic Slasher Film

*warning spoilers below* In 1996 the horror genre was on its knees with nowhere else to go. Slasher films had reached the bottom of the barrel, and all new ideas were dry and everything was rehashed. Enter a young screenwriter Kevin Williamson who would change all of that. Horror master Wes Craven was on the […] The post Scream: The Last Classic Slasher...

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Borat Subsequent Moviefilm ★★★★

Director: Jason Woliner Stars: Sacha Baron Cohen, Maria Bakalova Released: 23rd October 2020 (Amazon Prime) 14 years after Sacha Baron Cohen’s most incendiary character Borat wrote himself into pop-culture history, the fictional journalist has returned, with America the target once more. Shamed by his original documentary, Journalist Borat is given...

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MOVIE REVIEW: Borat Subsequent Moviefilm

(Image courtesy of Amazon Studios) BORAT SUBSEQUENT MOVIEFILM— 2 STARS LESSON #1: LIES EXPOSE TRUTHS-- The initial lesson is simply stated. Mistakes trigger calls for answers. The size of the inaccuracy tends to correlate with the amount of revealed embarrassment. Untruths...

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GUEST CRITIC #40: Eighth Grade

(Image: Amazon.com) As busy I get from time to time, I find that I can't see every movie under the sun, leaving my friends and colleagues to fill in the blanks for me.  As poetically as I think I wax about movies on this website as a wannabe critic, there are other...

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EDITORIAL: A Review of "Gemini Man"

(Image: uhdpaper.com) If you're an avid movie-goer, you don't go to see action flicks expecting your worldviews to be changed in their foundations. Action movies are there to give us an hour or two of a good time, to get our blood racing, and to make us talk to about them...

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COLUMN: Five Most Impactful Movie Speeches of All-Time

(Image: vanityfair.com) Five Most Impactful Movie Speeches of All Times For years, magnificent movie speeches stand-and-delivered by top actors have been making their way from the movie screen right to the hearts of the viewers, inspiring people for real changes, accomplishments,...

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GUEST COLUMN: 17 Best Relationship Lessons We Learned From Retro Movies

(Image: silverpetticoatreview.com) 17 Best Relationship Lessons We Learned From Retro Movies  by Bethany Langston Sitting on the couch covered with a favorite blanket on a cozy evening, most people usually wonder which film to choose for the current mood. And, in case...

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Nomadland ★★★★★

Director: Chloé Zhao Starring: Frances McDormand, David Strathairn Released: BFI London Film Festival Nomadland, Chloe Zhao’s achingly beautiful dedication to the wanderers, muses on grief, resilience and the meaning of life; while giving Frances McDormand yet another chance to showcase her strengths as one of the greatest performers of her generation. ...

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The Painter and the Thief ★★★★

Director: Benjamin Ree Released: BFI London Film Festival With a story that seems cut straight from one of Hollywood’s finest fictions and an underlying honesty and humility that can only come from real life, Benjamin Ree’s LFF Best Documentary award-winning The Painter and the Thief is an often quite extraordinary documentary feature. In April 2015,...

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Lovers Rock ★★★★★

Director: SteveMcQueen Starring: Amarah-Jae St Aubyn, Michael Ward, Shaniqua Okwok, Kedar Williams-Stirling Released: BFI London Film Festival Steve McQueen, director of 12 Years a Slave and Widows, certainly seems to have struck gold again with Lovers Rock which is an infectious, love letter to that musical genre and 1980s Ladbroke Grove. It...

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Ammonite ★★★★

Director: Francis Lee Starring: Kate Winslet, Saoirse Ronan, Gemma Jones, James McArdle Released: BFI London Film Festival Attempting to challenge the rigid system of a patriarchal society, where the perception of women is frightfully reductive. You can only imagine it leaving you world-weary, as you fend for yourself to unearth the hidden talent that...

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Another Round ★★★★

Director: Thomas Vinterberg Starring: Mads Mikkelsen, Thomas Bo Larsen, Magnus Millang, Lars Ranthe Released: BFI London Film Festival Thomas Vinterberg found great success when he worked with Mads Mikkelsen with The Hunt in 2012. Applauded by many and unforgettable but Vinterberg hasn’t hit a high note for quite some time. Another Round is a Cannes...

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Wolfwalkers ★★★★★

Director: Tomm Moore, Ross Stewart Released: BFI London Film Festival Seemingly from out of nowhere, Wolfwalkers has emerged as a serious contender for 2020’s film of the year. I say seemingly out of nowhere, but when the folks over at Cartoon Saloon (Song of the Sea, Secret of Kells, The Breadwinner) are the masterminds behind […] The post Wolfwalkers...

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Limbo ★★★★★

Director: Ben Sharrock Starring: Amir El-Masry, Vikash Bhai, Sidse Babett Knudsen Released: BFI London Film Festival Screened as part of the ‘Journey’ strand at the BFI London Film Festival, Limbo follows a group of refugees awaiting British asylum on a ragged, weather-beaten Scottish Island in the Hebrides. Scottish filmmaker Ben Sharrock wrote and...

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Undine ★★★★★

Director: Christian Petzold Starring: Paula Beer, Franz Rogowski, Maryam Zaree Released: BFI London Film Festival For the better half of the century, the work of Christian Petzold has emerged as somewhat of a phenomenon overseas. His quiet, soulful stories found their niche among the varied market of European cinema, contrasting understated romance...

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After Love ★★★★

Director: Aleem Khan Starring: Joanna Scanlan, Nathalie Richard, Talid Ariss Released: BFI London Film Festival A film starring Joanna Scanlan is always worth watching as it will usually contain a powerful performance that will render its audience speechless. The emotional After Love did not disappoint on this basis and features Scanlan, of Notes on...

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Industry

Directors: Lena Dunham, Tinge Krishnan, Ed Lilly Released: BFI London Film Festival ‘Greed is Good’ were the words immortalised from the iconic 1980s film Wall Street, starring Michael Douglas, and this new series Industry captures this essence perfectly with its exciting tales of the outrageous antics of graduate investment bankers vying for a permanent...

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Latest Trailer for Francis Lee’s ‘Ammonite’

Starring Kate Winslet and Saorise Ronan and directed by Francis Lee (God’s Own Country) the latest trailer for Ammonite has been released. Check it out now and let us know what you think @MovieMarker on Twitter In the 1840s, acclaimed self-taught palaeontologist Mary Anning works alone on the wild and brutal Southern English coastline of […] The post...

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David Byrne’s American Utopia ★★★★★

Directed: Spike Lee Released: BFI London Film Festival A silver-haired musical supremo clutching a model of the human brain waxing lyrical about the multitude of neural connections a baby has, with an adult’s slowly dwindling as the precious years pass by, doesn’t immediately scream a killer opening salvo for a stage show. But at the […] The post David...

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The Human Voice ★★★★

Director: Pedro Almodóvar Starring: Tilda Swinton Released: BFI London Film Festival The carnival of colour that assails your eyes from the opening shot of this 30-minute offering from Spanish maestro Pedro Almodóvar is in sharp contrast to the subject matter of the film. Bold, striking, luminous colours – from Tilda Swinton’s elegantly tailored outfits...

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Days ★★★★

Director: Tsai Ming-liang Starring: Lee Kang-Sheng, Anong Houngheuangsy Released: BFI London Film Festival Tsai Ming-liang is an auteur that needs no introduction but today is an exception. The Taiwanese director has captivated and inspired the art house scene for a few decades. His films include Goodbye Dragon Inn, Rebel of a Neon God and a […] The...

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LFF + The Last Great Picture Show?

Anyone who loves cinema knows that magic moment; the lights go down, the message from the British board of film censors tells you the name of the film and how old you need to be to see it. The theme of one of the big Hollywood studios, sounding like it should be the national anthem […] The post LFF + The Last Great Picture Show? appeared first on Movie...

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MOVIE REVIEW: Rebecca

(Image courtesy of Netflix) REBECCA-- 3 STARS The expression “hard act to follow” rings like a peal of bells both centrally and superficially when it comes to the new adaptation of Rebecca premiering on Netflix. Boy, that’s the movie and its new bride protagonist to a T....

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