YOUR MOTHER WISHES ARE MY COMAND: FRENCH RIVIERA

L’Homme qu’on Aimat Trop (French Riviera for the London Film Festival) is for sure a little appealing movie for an audience far from la Cote Azure. André Téchiné thriller is a re-creation of the Nièce Casino war in a mix of crime drama, love story and widow mother/daughter melodrama. Renée La Roux (a wonderful silver-haired Catherine…

He is a good boy, he is a criminal: BYPASS

Duane Hopkins ByPass is a movie about a world so far from the one we’re used to see on screen to seem almost unreal. ByPass is a story about youth, but not the happy-green British youth; this movie is about the other youth, the marginalized one. Tim (talented rising star George MacKay, Private Peaceful, Pride,…

YOU ARE JUST A PIECE OF MEAT: ’71

Story of a young squaddie lost on the street of Belfast during the Troubles, ’71 (9 BIFA nominations), the new Yann Demage (Top Boy) movie is a thriller based in an almost Apocaliptic Belfast, even if we are in the 1970. The RUC house to house search becomes a conflict that also involves women and…

THE BEST GODDAM JOB I’VE EVER HAD: FURY

David Ayer‘s gripping tank drama FURY is set in Germany in April 1945 during Hitler’s Total War and follows the battle hardened crew of a Sherman tank as the Allies make their final push to defeat the Nazis. The movie starts with a man on a white fairy-tale horse who emerges from a bank of…

Max Irons and The Riot Club inflame Toronto

After the romantic One Day, Lone Scherfig arrives at the Toronto International Film Festival ready to impress the audience with the appetizing The Riot Club (watch the trailer). Based on Laura Wade play Posh, the movie tells the story of the young Oxford members of an elite student dining society. As the movie’s poster says…

Theeb with Jack Fox enchants Venice

Standing ovation and 10 minutes of applause at the 71st Venice International Film Festival for Theeb with Londoner Jack Fox. The Jordan movie, Naji Abu Nowar debut, in competition in the Orizzonti (Horizons) section has won audiences hearts and found an almost certain Italian distribution. Theeb tells the story of a boy who is living,…

If I Stay: a chat with Jamie Blackley

On the eve of the highly anticipated movie If I stay( review here), adaptation of the novel written by Gayle Forman) release, we met Jamie Blackley to talk about his character, Adam, and much more. Jamie arrives with a check shirt and a pair of ankle boots worn on the tip. Adam is part of a rock…

FrightFest 2014: World Premiere for Goblin? starring David Oakes

World Premiere at the FrightFest 2014 for the short movie Goblin? Goblin?  is a seven minutes long thriller that has as main characters The Borgias’ couple David Oakes (Love by Design, The White Queen) and Holliday Grainger (The Riot Club, Great Expectations). Written by  Matt Brothers, directed by Christian James and produced by Emma Biggins…