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JoJo Rabbit (London Film Festival 2019) 4 stars☆☆☆☆☆

15th October 2019 by Sarah Cartland Leave a Comment

A young boy in Hitler’s army finds out his mother is hiding a Jewish girl in their home. JoJo Rabbit works nearly all of the time, which for a comedy about the friendship between a small boy in the Hitler Youth and a Jewish girl, and with a buffoonish Hitler as an imaginary father figure, is… JoJo Rabbit (London Film Festival 2019) Read More

Filed Under: Featured 3, Film Reviews, London Film Festival Tagged With: germany, nazis, ww2

Little Monsters (London Film Festival 2019) 3 stars☆☆☆☆☆

12th October 2019 by Sarah Cartland Leave a Comment

Little Monsters is a great advert for teacher excellence, if not much of a recruiting tool – as multi-talented kindergarten teacher Miss Caroline has to save her class of small charges as they face down an attempted zombie apocalypse. I  say attempted; it does feel a little half-hearted, as the world’s slowest undead hordes stagger round… Little Monsters (London Film Festival 2019) Read More

Filed Under: Featured 2, Film Reviews, London Film Festival Tagged With: australia, children, school, teachers, zombies

Nest – kids’ review! (short film – London Film Festival 2019) Short Film 4.5 stars☆☆☆☆☆

8th October 2019 by Cassian Leave a Comment

There’s a big bird with pink feathers that wants to be friends with a little bird and its friends. It chases the little bird to make the little bird like him but the little bird gets scared. Then the big bird makes a lovely nest on the ground and the little bird and its friends… Nest – kids’ review! (short film – London Film Festival 2019) Read More

Filed Under: Film Reviews, Kids, London Film Festival, Reviews By Kids Tagged With: birds, colour, friendship, nest

Good Heart – kids’ review! (short film – London Film Festival 2019) Short Film 4.5 stars☆☆☆☆☆

7th October 2019 by Cassian Leave a Comment

At the start I didn’t understand what was happening but then I realised. The pictures look like they’ve been drawn with crayons. It’s from Russia but it doesn’t matter because the family in it just grunt. There is a family of Stone Age people and when the boy goes to collect apples he comes back… Good Heart – kids’ review! (short film – London Film Festival 2019) Read More

Filed Under: Film Reviews, Kids, London Film Festival, Reviews By Kids Tagged With: cavemen, family, pets, stone age

Jerich0 – kids’ review! (short film – London Film Festival 2019) Short Film 5 stars☆☆☆☆☆

6th October 2019 by Cassian Leave a Comment

This is my favourite of all the short films I’ve watched this week. It’s about a robot lizard and it’s only one minute long. When I heard “Jericho” I thought that sounds like a lovely name and I think the lizard might be called Jericho.  It starts off not much sad. The robot lizard crawls… Jerich0 – kids’ review! (short film – London Film Festival 2019) Read More

Filed Under: Film Reviews, Kids, London Film Festival, Reviews By Kids, Support Indie Film Tagged With: friendship, lizard, robot

The Penguin Who Couldn’t Swim – kids’ review! (short film – London Film Festival 2019) Short Film 4 stars☆☆☆☆☆

6th October 2019 by Cassian 1 Comment

This film is five and a half minutes long. There’s a penguin who can’t swim because he has a short wing. Nobody speaks but that doesn’t matter. There isn’t much detail in their faces. Sometimes you can only see their eyes but you can still tell how they are feeling. He watches his friends swimming… The Penguin Who Couldn’t Swim – kids’ review! (short film – London Film Festival 2019) Read More

Filed Under: Film Reviews, Kids, London Film Festival, Reviews By Kids, Support Indie Film Tagged With: disability, friendship, penguins

Peanut Butter Falcon (London Film Festival 2019) 5 stars☆☆☆☆☆

4th October 2019 by Sarah Cartland Leave a Comment

Zak runs away from his care home to make his dream of becoming a wrestler come true. The Peanut Butter Falcon infuses its message of autonomy and risk-taking with a sense of magic – as Zak, a young man with Down Syndrome, escapes his dreary, constricting care home for freedom and adventure. As Zak (Zack Gottsagen)… Peanut Butter Falcon (London Film Festival 2019) Read More

Filed Under: Featured 3, Film Reviews, London Film Festival, Support Indie Film Tagged With: america, disability, down syndrome, friendship, road movie

The Nightingale (Sundance London) 3 stars☆☆☆☆☆

5th August 2019 by Sarah Cartland Leave a Comment

It’s an easy get-out, to anoint a movie “a hard watch”, but Jennifer Kent’s period revenge thriller The Nightingale is just that. I went in with no other information beyond this being a follow up to The Babadook, a horror film about a menaced, powerless child but really about loneliness and grief. This is, in… The Nightingale (Sundance London) Read More

Filed Under: Film Reviews, Sundance London Tagged With: 19th century, Aborigines, australia, british, indigenous people, tasmania

The Farewell (Sundance London) 5 stars☆☆☆☆☆

21st July 2019 by Sarah Cartland Leave a Comment

The Farewell is writer-director Lulu Wang’s second feature, and it’s a funny, bracing, tender and profoundly moving film. “Sexy but poor” is how Billi (Awkwafina) describes herself half-jokingly to her mother, visiting her parents while trying to avoid the apartment she always owes rent on. Her parents also live in New York, the whole family… The Farewell (Sundance London) Read More

Filed Under: Film Reviews, Sundance London Tagged With: american-chinese, china, death, family

Apollo 11 (Sundance London) 5 stars☆☆☆☆☆

30th June 2019 by Sarah Cartland Leave a Comment

The words that sum up Apollo 11 hark back to magic – yes, this paen to science (technology, maths, physics) and humanity (bravery, a compulsion to explore, even teamwork) is spellbinding, entrancing, mesmerising. An extraordinary event deserves an extraordinary movie documenting it, and Apollo 11 is certainly that. In a modern era where there are few… Apollo 11 (Sundance London) Read More

Filed Under: Featured 3, Film Reviews, Sundance London Tagged With: 1969, buzz aldrin, michael collins, moon landings, neil armstrong, space, space race

Canada Now launches UK film tour – the best of new Canadian cinema across the country

27th June 2019 by Sarah Cartland Leave a Comment

Canada Day on 1 July sees the first day of the CANADA NOW tour, which takes the films from the London CANADA NOW event in April and makes them available to independent cinemas across the UK. The tour will launch with a special one-off masterclass including director Yan Giroux (For Those Who Don’t Read Me,… Canada Now launches UK film tour – the best of new Canadian cinema across the country Read More

Filed Under: Canada Now Tagged With: canada, canada now, canadian cinema

“Sometimes, Always, Never” director Carl Hunter on mods, muzjiks and his Merseyside movie

12th June 2019 by Sarah Cartland Leave a Comment

“Scrabble as a motif, order can be created, things can be put right. But you’ve just got to know the rules and be willing to play.” Carl Hunter, director of Sometimes, Always, Never. Film director Carl Hunter used to play in Liverpool band The Farm, part of the soundtrack to my 90s youth – and he was in a… “Sometimes, Always, Never” director Carl Hunter on mods, muzjiks and his Merseyside movie Read More

Filed Under: Interviews, London Film Festival, Support Indie Film Tagged With: bill nighy, carl hunter, edwin collins, frank cottrell boyce, Gregory Crewdson, liverpool, merseyside, scrabble, sometimes always never

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