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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

The Human Voice (2020)

October 15, 2020October 21, 2020 Dave McAllister1 Comment

"It made me imagine my hand was wielding a knife and I was sticking it in you"

Posted in cinema, drama, London Film Festival, streamingTagged Jean Cocteau, Pedro Almodóvar, Tilda Swinton

David Byrne’s American Utopia (2020)

October 14, 2020October 15, 2020 Dave McAllisterLeave a comment

"We're work in progress. We're not fixed. Our brains change"

Posted in cinema, London Film Festival, music, streamingTagged David Byrne, Spike Lee

Shirley (2019)

October 9, 2020October 10, 2020 Dave McAllisterLeave a comment

"Maybe disappearing was the only way anyone would notice her"

Posted in cinema, drama, horror, London Film Festival, streamingTagged Elisabeth Moss, Josephine Decker, Logan Lerman, Martin Scorsese, Michael Stuhlbarg, Odessa Young, Orlagh Cassidy, Robert Wuhl, Shirley Jackson, Victoria Pedretti

Rocks (2019)

September 19, 2020September 29, 2020 Dave McAllister2 Comments

"There's got to be a way to sort all of this. You just can't keep going on by yourself"

Posted in cinema, dramaTagged Bukky Bakray, Claire Wilson, D’angelou Osei Kissiedu, Hélène Louvart, Kosar Ali, Sarah Gavron, Theresa Ikoko

Make Up (2019)

August 18, 2020November 24, 2020 Dave McAllister4 Comments
Make Up poster

"Do you know a girl with long red hair?

Posted in cinema, London Film Festival, streamingTagged Claire Oakley, Joseph Quinn, Molly Windsor, Stefanie Martini

The Girl with a Bracelet (2019)

June 25, 2020June 25, 2020 Dave McAllister5 Comments
Melissa Guers as Lise, the accused, in The Girl With A Bracelet

“If you go to prison, can I have your room?”

Posted in cinema, London Film FestivalTagged Anaïs Demoustier, Chiara Mastroianni, La Fille au Bracelet, Melissa Guers, Stéphane Demoustier

East of Eden (1955)

April 28, 2020April 25, 2020 Dave McAllisterLeave a comment

"I guess there's just a certain amount of good and bad you get from your parents and I just got the bad."

Posted in cinemaTagged Elia Kazan, James Dean, Jo Van Fleet, Julie Harris, Raymond Massey

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