Supernova opens over black – or so it seems. The blackness, we come to realise, is not complete. This is the night sky. There are a pinpricks of light, stars, which seem to multiply.
One flares suddenly and vanishes.…
Author: robertmwallis
Graduate of Royal Holloway and the London Film School. Founder of Of All The Film Sites; formerly Of All The Film Blogs. Formerly Film & TV Editor of The Metropolist and Official Sidekick at A Place to Hang Your Cape. Co-host of The Movie RobCast podcast (formerly Electric Shadows) and member of the Online Film Critics Society.
REVIEW: Shirley [LFF 2020]
After 2018’s disassociative coming-of-age story Madeline’s Madeline, Josephine Decker returns with another twist on a conventional narrative – the biopic as psychological thriller.
We first see our subject in soft focus, extreme close-up: bare skin, tangled hair, the hint of a face.…
REVIEW: Mangrove [LFF 2020]
In what has become something of an LFF tradition, Steve McQueen’s latest gets the festival off to a strong, socially-aware start.
It’s 1968 and things are changing in west London. Kids play beneath a towering overpass under construction and in Notting Hill a new restaurant, the Mangrove, provides a hub for the West Indian community.…
PODCAST: London Film Festival 2020 Preview [Movie RobCast]
In episode 101, Robs Wallis & Daniel take a look at the films getting them fired up for the 64th London Film Festival.
Predictably. this year the festival is split between showing films on the BFI Player and certain films screening in cinemas across the country.…
REVIEW: Say Your Prayers
British indie comedy Say Your Prayers locates itself comfortably in the tradition of inept Brits making a mess of rural idylls – in this case, violently.
The idyll here is the rugged landscape of West Yorkshire. The blokes in question are Tim (Harry Melling), permanently ensconced in a Tibetan earflap, and Vic (Tom Brooke), hatchet-faced and angry.…
REVIEW: The Devil All The Time & Enola Holmes [Netflix]
The Devil All The Time and Enola Holmes are perfect examples of high-quality, immediately disposable Netflix Originals.
Both have promising “indie” directors (Antonio Campos’ last feature was 2016’s Rebecca; Harry Bradbeer broke out directing Fleabag), at least a couple of stars (Devil’s ensemble includes the current Spider-Man and future Batman; Enola Holmes lead is Stranger Things’ Eleven with Superman himself in support as older brother Sherlock), and maybe some literary pedigree (both are based on best-selling novels.)…
PODCAST: The 100th Episode [Movie RobCast]
The Movie Robcast reaches its 100th episode!
In a bumper edition, the Robs recount favourite movie watching memories, oddest trips to the cinema, the dangers of revisiting cherished films… and the dangers of comparing themselves to Simon & Garfunkel.…
REVIEW: i’m thinking of ending things
For a filmmaker whose first script, Being John Malkovich, plunged us, literally, into the head of a revered character actor and whose most recent, Anomalisa, was a stop-motion meditation on individuality, a couple’s car journey to visit the boyfriend’s parents might seem a bit… prosaic?…
PODCAST: Mulan (2020) & I’m Thinking of Ending Things [Movie RobCast]
The Movie RobCast reaches episode 99! And in the final double digit episode before we boldly to get into three figures (*gasp*), Robs Daniel and Wallis cast an eye over Disney’s live action Mulan remake.
The pair were really rather impressed with the 1998 animated version when reviewing it back on episode 87.…
PODCAST: Tenet & The New Mutants [Movie RobCast]
Episode 98 of The Movie Robcast is a bumper episode, taking a close look at Tenet and ending with a review of the long-delayed X-Men movie, The New Mutants.
Excitingly, joining us for this ep is on demand movie manager Jasen Govinden to give his opinions on Christopher Nolan’s time-twisting head scratcher.…