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UK Film Review
- Sep 30, 2018
- 2 min
Fly short film
★★★★★
Directed by: Nadira Amrani
Starring: Flohio
BFI London Film Festival Review by: Chris Olson Part of the “Journey” thread at the LFF 2018, Nadira Amrani’s short film Fly is a fluid piece of cinema with an incredible central performance. Charting the rise of a female rapper in Bermondsey, the movie explores a smorgasbord of cultural and social issues whilst providing a quasi coming-of-age parable in which the main protagonist literally gets their wings. The film stars re
UK Film Review
- Sep 21, 2018
- 3 min
Four Straight Guys: A Bendy Road short film
★★★★
Directed by: Alasdair Lindsay, Matthew Vivian, Josh Harper
Starring: Zack, Danny, Troy, Chad Vivian, Matthew Vivian, John Broad, Ellie Ford and Ketziah Broad
Short Film Review by: Rachel Pullen Boy bands are kind of kick ass right, remember Nsync, 98 degrees...Blue, so many classics, so many tight tops and overly gelled hairstyles. So many good times, and even if you don’t like the music [does anyone really?] we can really enjoy the comedy that they bring to our lives..
UK Film Review
- Dec 14, 2017
- 2 min
The Conductor short film
Written and Directed by Xavier Guignard Starring Anne Ribière, Jean-Loup Horwitz, Jessica Mescall Short Film Review by Chris Olson With a sense of effortless warmth and grace, Xavier Guignard's short film The Conductor has a formidable filmmaking pedigree. Combining sumptuous visuals with immersive music from Tim Benjamin, and two great central performances, this is enriched cinema. Emma (Anne Ribière) opens the movie by performing a marvellous piano piece. However, her music
UK Film Review
- Nov 29, 2017
- 2 min
Bill Evans Time Remembered documentary
★★★★ Directed by Bruce Spiegel
Starring Connie Atkinson, Tony Bennett, Bill Charlap, Jack DeJohnette, Debby Evans, Eric Reed
Documentary Film Review by Chris Olson Full of jazz-like energy and frenetic enthusiasm, documentary film Bill Evans Time Remembered from filmmaker Bruce Spiegel, manages to capture the spirit of the genre whilst layering it with a deeper sense of pathos that you don't always find in musical biopics. The array of talking heads, archive footage, modern
UK Film Review
- Nov 18, 2017
- 2 min
Winning Jah C-Krit music video
Directed by Maurizio Ghiotti
Starring Winning Jah
Short Film Review by Rachel Pullen Ahhh weed culture, you either love it or hate it, and in the case of Winning Jah, he clearly loves it...a lot, like he is all about the weed culture at this point, if I could sum him and his music video C-Krit up, its weed culture...enough said. But even though it would be easy to end the train of thoughts there and just get sucked into watching a man smoke a joint with his friends dancing a
UK Film Review
- Nov 9, 2017
- 3 min
Susmit Bose / Urban Voice documentary film
★★ Directed by Aneek Chaudhuri Starring Susmit Bose and Aneek Chaudhuri Documentary Film Review by Daniel Reason The level of admiration that Aneek Chaudhuri has for Susmit Bose is made clear in his documentary about the aforementioned Urban-Folk music singer. Chaudhuri aims to bring insight into his life and bring to light just how influential he was in that music genre, despite many being unfamiliar of his work. By exploring the difference between the Indian folk music of S
UK Film Review
- Jun 16, 2017
- 3 min
All Eyez On Me
★★★ Directed by Benny Boom Starring Demetrius Shipp Jr., Danai Gurira, Kat Graham, Dominic L. Santana, Jamal Woolard, Cory Hardrict, & Annie Ilonzeh Film Review by Chris Olson Dust off the wife-beaters and start up the Cadillacs it's time for another banging biopic, following in the formidable footsteps of Straight Outta Compton, director Benny Boom delivers the untold story of Tupac Shakur with a solidly made movie that gets consumed by its own excesses. We've seen Phoenix W
UK Film Review
- Mar 25, 2017
- 3 min
Leslie short film
Directed by Alejandro Montoya Marín Starring Kika Magalhaes, Marty Lindsey, Daniel Pattison & Amy Baklini Short Film Review by Chris Olson An astonishing short film, Leslie is an absolutely breathtaking story about life and dreams, and the courage it takes to endure relentless setbacks to achieve artistic fulfilment. Following the haphazard life of a musician called Holly (Kika Magalhaes) attempting to 'live the dream', but who actually spends most of her time barely scraping
UK Film Review
- Mar 24, 2017
- 2 min
Mickey Reece's Alien indie film
★★★★ Directed by Mickey Reece Starring Jacob Ryan Snovel, Cate Jones, Alex Sanchez, John Selvidge, Michaelene Stephenson, & John Scamehorn Indie Film Review by Chris Olson Part mockumentary biopic, part film noir, part black comedy, part fantastic existential crisis, Mickey Reece’s Alien is arguably one of the most bizarre imaginings of Elvis you will ever see. Written and Directed by the titular Mickey Reece, his indie film encapsulates so many aspects of classic filmmaking,
UK Film Review
- Mar 20, 2017
- 3 min
Any Major Dude indie film
★★★ Directed by Sean Baker Starring Scott Brindle, Angelique Fronike, Mike Milne, Steve Kennett, James Inman, Paul Garner, Lisa Wight, Martin George, & Matt Sweeney Indie Film Review by Chris Olson The underdog story is normally dedicated to narratives involving younger characters. Athletic journeys to victory like The Mighty Ducks (1992) or The Karate Kid (1984), pop star competitions such as Pitch Perfect (2012), or the plethora of dance troupe movies, all have this formula
UK Film Review
- Oct 15, 2016
- 2 min
LillaLaylo short film
Directed by Alessandro Circiello Starring GSol Short Film Review by Chris Olson Rarely are we asked to write film reviews for music videos, a genre which probably exists more in the music industry than movies. Which is a shame, because the craft is still the same as more traditional, narrative-led shorts and very often the dynamic between the visuals and the audience is really intriguing because there is no dialogue to influence the way we think. Short film-cum-music video Li
UK Film Review
- May 28, 2016
- 4 min
Sing Street
★★ Directed by John Carney Starring Ferdia Walsh-Peelo, Lucy Boynton, Jack Reynor, Mark McKenna, Percy Chamburuka, Conor Hamilton Film Review by Colin Lomas It’s 1980s Dublin and times are tough. Fourteen-year-old schoolboy Cosmo (Walsh-Peelo) is taken out of his posh public school to attend a hard-line Christian education facility due to his parents' struggle to make ends meet. Cosmo’s older brother Brendon (Reynor) is having difficulty making any sense of life and spends hi
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