Ramona Edith Williams and Kelly O'Sullivan in Saint Frances 2020's Indie darling Saint Frances is a film that only comes along once in a while. Prescient of the time its being made and what it wants to convey, Director Alex Thompson's film, working off a script by Kelly O'Sullivan is utterly charming and quiet but …
Tag: Drama
Review-Lite: I’m Your Woman (2020)
Rachel Brosnahan in I'm Your Woman As you might have read in my top 25 films of the year list, I'm Your Woman is a genre defying thriller that uses its noir roots to tell a female driven tale in the same style as classic detective mysteries like The Maltese Falcon and more specifically Gaslight. …
Review-Lite: Soul (2020)
Soul With two releases this year, Pixar has saved the best for last with Soul, a symbolic sequel to Pete Docter's previous outing, the sublime Inside Out, Soul captures the magic of previous Pixar classics while never treading old ground in the same way Onward did earlier in the year. Following Jazz musician and teacher …
Review-Lite: The Midnight Sky (2020)
George Clooney in The Midnight Sky Most people will tell you George Clooney's latest feature is a mixture between a science fiction epic and a survival film with a bit of family drama thrown in for good measure. What they wont say is it is either one or the other, never moulding its dual narratives …
Review-Lite: Fierce (2020)
Anita Sokolowska and Katarzyna Sawczuk in Fierce Recently released on Netflix, this Polish drama about Marta (Katarzyna Sawczuk), nicknamed Fierce by those who know her, follows her as she enters a famed singing competition in the hopes of meeting her long absent father Olo (Maciej Zakoscielny), a one hit wonder rock star and member of …
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 …
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: 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: 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 …
