Review-Lite: Clemency (2020)

Alfre Woodard in Clemency Clemency is all about control, or the lack of it. For prison warden Bernadine Williams (Alfre Woodard) its about controlling the variables in a world full of people looking to upset the status quo. For death row inmate Anthony Woods (Aldis Hodge) its about regaining some of the control that has …

Review-Lite: Yes God Yes (2020)

Natalia Dyer in Yes God Yes Nobody wants to talk about sex, at least with the people that might actually know something about it. Throw on top of that devout Christian values and a educational system unwilling to treat it with the respect and normalcy it deserves, instead considering it sacreligious and sacred in equal …

Not How We Watched, How We Saw

It has been almost 9 long months of shying away from what we deem normal, how we usually do things and small luxuries we almost certainly took for granted. It's also been 9 months of online discourse that has gotten progressively sourer, more contentious with each passing day. This is especially true when it comes …

Review-Lite: The Photograph (2020)

LaKeith Stanfield and Issa Rae in The Photograph Right from the start of Stella Meghie's The Photograph you are met with an explosion of colour and passion, a warm and sensual feel and a flawed and captivating love story about wanting different things at different times and giving up. However the 70s set story this …

Review-Lite: The Wolf of Snow Hollow (2020)

Robert Forster, Riki Lindhome and Jim Cummings in The Wolf of Snow Hollow The setting is always the same, the small secluded alpine town with the blistering snow storm. The cast of characters from the old time sheriff to the collection of scared townsfolk. The winter horror isn't anything new but in writer/director Jim Cummings …

Review-Lite: Lynn + Lucy (2020)

Roxanne Scrimshaw and Nichola Burley in Lynn + Lucy Framed around the fracturing friendship of titular college classmates Lynn (Roxanne Scrimshaw) and Lucy (Nichola Burley), writer/director Fyzal Boulifa's feature debut is a story of evolution and escalation where the same schoolyard squabbles are painted in a more harmful light, one that runs the risk of …

Review-Lite: Folklore – The Long Pond Studio Sessions (2020)

Taylor Swift in Folklore: The Long Pond Studio Sessions I've never written a review for a concert film, it felt derivative in a way. Packed out stadiums and very little context does not a movie make. However The Long Pond Studio Sessions playthrough of Swift's first album of 2020 Folklore feels different to the conventional …

Review-Lite: Ava (2020)

Jessica Chastain in Ava With the upcoming release of The 355, Jessica Chastain is looking to make a name for herself in action movies and more than that, she is looking to rock a male occupied genre and breath fresh life into it. Ava is not how that is done. Directed by Tate Taylor off …

Review-Lite: An American Pickle (2020)

Seth Rogen in An American Pickle Widely publicised as a launch title for HBO Max, the Seth Rogen starring and Brandon Trost directed An American Pickle is a film about finding middle ground, making compromises for those you love, or even those you barely know but want to. Telling the story of Jewish immigrant Herschel …

Review-Lite: Chronical 2067 (2020)

Kodi Smit-McPhee in Chronical 2067 It is hard to deny that the time loop film is a story done to death. A quest to defeat fate, change destiny or some such conveluted silliness. The fact that these stories keep emerging might mean we are suckers who keep taking in the same thing thinking it is …