#LFF2016: Spaceship, Divines, Lupe Under the Sun
Quick takes from the 60th London Film Festival, with public screenings from October 5th-16th, 2016.
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children movie review: infodump, the movie
Relentlessly dull. A tour of a strange world and “characters” little more than their “peculiar” abilities isn’t enough to whip up fantastical excitement.
from Pinterest: a door for Agent 86 (London photo)
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Urban Hymn movie review: the healing power of music
A startling portrait of girls at risk, with a magnificent performance by gonna-be-a-star Letitia Wright. Lovely, moving, utterly unsentimental.
#LFF2016: Ma’ Rosa, Pyromaniac, All This Panic
Quick takes from the 60th London Film Festival, with public screenings from October 5th-16th, 2016.
from Pinterest: Chinatown graffiti (London photo)
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Deepwater Horizon movie review: blood for oil
Immensely intense and suspenseful. Disaster filmmaking at its most gripping, yet there is nothing in the least bit exploitive or sensationalized about it.
The Magnificent Seven movie review: a dusty, dry husk of a movie
Humorless, rote, clichéd, and entirely unsurprising. Antoine Fuqua attempts to recapture old Hollywood magic — and fails — rather than create his own.
#LFF2016: Down Under, Indivisible, Wild
Quick takes from the 60th London Film Festival, with public screenings from October 5th-16th, 2016.
from Pinterest: best name for a winebar ever (London photo)
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