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Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon (2021)

October 7, 2021September 19, 2022 Dave McAllisterLeave a comment

"Forget what you know"

Posted in cinema, drama, London Film FestivalTagged Ana Lily Amirpour, Craig Robinson, Ed Skrein, Evan Whitten, Gralen Bryant Banks, Jeon Jong-seo, Kate Hudson

Bergman Island

October 7, 2021October 8, 2021 Dave McAllister1 Comment

“The large bedroom was where he filmed Scenes from a Marriage, the film that caused a million divorces”

Posted in cinema, drama, London Film FestivalTagged Anders Danielsen Lie, Ingmar Bergman, Mia Hansen-Løve, Mia Wasikowska, Tim Roth, Vicky Krieps

Pig (2021)

August 21, 2021August 21, 2021 Dave McAllister1 Comment

"Who's got my pig?"

Posted in cinema, drama, Edinburgh Film FestivalTagged Adam Arkin, Alex Wolff, Michael Sarnoski, Nicolas Cage, Nina Belforte, Patrick Scola, tt W. Bachman, Vanessa Block

Pleasure (2021)

August 9, 2021October 31, 2021 Dave McAllister2 Comments

"I do everything"

Posted in cinemaTagged Evelyn Claire, Ninja Thyberg, Revika Anne Reustle, Sofia Kappel

Censor (2021)

August 8, 2021August 8, 2021 Dave McAllisterLeave a comment

"You’d be surprised what the human brain can edit out when it can’t handle the truth”

Posted in cinema, horror, Sundance, Sundance LondonTagged Emilie Levienaise-Farrouch, Kim Newman, Mark Towns, Michael Smiley, Niamh Algar, Paulina Rzeszow, Prano Bailey-Bond, Tim Harrison

Gunda (2020)

June 13, 2021June 12, 2021 Dave McAllister1 Comment

"Oink"

Posted in cinema, documentaryTagged Ainara Vera, Egil Haaskjold, Viktor Kossakovsky

A Quiet Place 2 (2020)

June 4, 2021June 4, 2021 Dave McAllisterLeave a comment

"There are people out there. People worth saving"

Posted in cinemaTagged Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, John Krasinski, Millicent Simmonds, Noah Jupe, Polly Morgan

Undergods (2020)

May 30, 2021May 30, 2021 Dave McAllister2 Comments

"Let's kill the big one for meat"

Posted in cinema, drama, Glasgow Film Festival, science fiction, streamingTagged Adrian Rawlins, Chino Moya, Géza Röhrig, Johann Myers, Kate Dickie, Khalid Abdalla, Ned Dennehy, Tanya Reynolds

Mank (2020)

December 4, 2020December 5, 2020 Dave McAllisterLeave a comment

"What did Marion ever do to deserve this?"

Posted in cinema, drama, streamingTagged Amanda Seyfried, Arliss Howard, Atticus Ross, Charles Dance, David Fincher, David O. Selznick, Gary Oldman, Herman Mankiewicz, Jack Fincher, John Houseman, Lily Collins, Louis B. Mayer, Marion Davies, Orson Welles, Tom Burke, Trent Reznor

Ronnie’s (2020)

October 21, 2020October 22, 2020 Dave McAllisterLeave a comment

"I really am grateful to the place because it just opened up another world for me."

Posted in cinema, documentary, musicTagged Chet Baker, Ella Fitzgerald, Miles Davis, Oliver Murray, Ronnie Scott, Van Morrison

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