Following Amadi, a musician from Lagos who travels to São Paulo to search for his missing older brother, Shine Your Eyes captures beautiful imagery but fails to capture the emotion from it’s protagonist. The narrative is somewhat straight forward, Amadi discovers his brother has been lying to those back home. Instead he has been g […]
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Considering the Flint water crisis has been in the news for over 5 years now you’d be forgiven to think the situation has been resolved. Anthony Baxter’s new documentary Flint , which has recently aired as part of Sheffield DocFest, shows that not only has the situation not improved, but highlights the complex and nightmarish
I only became aware of Relic back in June, when we featured the trailer in one of our TrailerChat posts. After looking into it a little more, I started to come across the traditional ‘scariest movie of the year’ headlines, which seem to accompany the release of pretty much every movie of this kind before
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From IMDb: When carefree Nyles and reluctant maid of honor Sarah have a chance encounter at a Palm Springs wedding, things get complicated as they are unable to escape the venue, themselves, or each other. It’s the unfortunate after effect of Coronavirus that every film released this year feels like the ‘perfect’ lockdown film. But
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Short film ‘Isle of Us’ was made by NFTS graduate Laura Wadha and is part of the official Sheffield Doc Fest selection for 2020. In 2015, Syrians were being relocated by the UN across Scotland. After hearing that some families were homed on the remote Isle of Bute, filmmaker Laura Wadha decided to make a
Based on a C.S. Forester novel The Good Shepherd, and a screenplay by Mr Tom Hanks himself, Greyhound is the latest movie to feature Hanks in the role of brave Captain, returning once more to World War II territory. Any hopes that this might be a return to the grand heights of Saving Private Ryan
Receiving it’s UK premiere at Sheffield Doc Fest, Shut Up Sona is part of the Rhyme & Rhythm strand in the 2020 festival. Shut Up Sona follows musician Sona Mohapatra over a 3 year period. Never heard of her? Neither had I, but that doesn’t matter. The film shows us the many spectrums of Sona’s
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I accidentally stumbled in to a screening of Waiting for the Barbarians during the press screenings at last year’s London Film Festival. I’d completely forgotten about it until the trailer started to pop-up all-over my Twitter feed last week. As we’ve featured it in our latest TrailerChat, I’ve dug out my review notes from September
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As Pride month comes to a close, I wanted to highlight a wonderful documentary focusing on the subject of Trans identity that I watched earlier this year. Jack and Yaya was originally scheduled to have it’s UK Premiere as part of March’s BFIFlare Festival. Due to Covid-19, this event went online, but the film is
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Brittany doesn’t really follow any kind of self care regime. Living in NYC, she likes to party hard, eat unhealthily and regularly get drunk. She jokes around at work and with her friends, who all think she’s fun. But beneath that bubbly exterior lies some deep unhappiness. A visit to the doctor to try and
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I am going to preface this review by stating that I was definitely not sober when watching the film, nor whilst writing the review, but I LOVED Netlfix’s Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga. The film has been almost universally panned, but I was willing to give it a chance because despite every
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Set in the 1950s, in the fictional town of Cayuga, New Mexico, The Vast of Night is a low-budget sci-fi mystery very much in the style of a Twilight Zone episode. We begin by watching an old black and white TV set of the era, while a voiceover narrates the show being screened on it
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We Are One: A Global Film Festival is a free 10-day online festival, exclusively on YouTube, born out of the idea that the film community can come together in times of crises – both in celebration of films and in support by providing much needed relief for COVID-19 efforts. And She Could Be Next is
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Destined to divide opinion, SCOOB! was to be the first theatrical Scooby-Doo film since the poorly received live- action sequel Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleased way back in 2004, and amazingly was the first animated adaptation of the Hanna-Barbera creation billed to receive a full theatrical release – that is, until Coronavirus entered the picture! The
Portrait of a Lady on Fire is difficult to discuss, because until you have seen Céline Sciamma’s masterpiece of film-making, it’s impossible to understand the simplistic beauty of the piece. Set in the 18 th century, artist Marianne ( Noémie Merlant) is hired to paint a portrait of a young woman, Héloïse ( Adèle Haenel), to be sent to
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The Lawyer was due to have its world premiere at last month’s cancelled BFIFlare festival. Though the team were unable to have the premiere as anticipated, we here at CineChat had the opportunity to see a preview of Romas Zabarauskas’ third feature film. The film focuses on the unusual relationship between a Lithuanian lawyer and
