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The Dose (La Dosis) Review: BFI Flare 2021

Two killer nurses stalk the patients of an ICU ward in Argentine thriller The Dose – but are they really dispensing mercy? Marcos (Carlos Portaluppi) is a dedicated ICU nurse of twenty years working in a rundown regional hospital. His life looks utterly depressing, drudging between his dilapidated apartment and …

Jump Darling Review: BFI Flare 2021

A rookie drag queen spends time with his ailing grandmother in Jump Darling, one of the great Cloris Leachman’s final films Reeling from a painful break up failed actor turned aspiring drag queen Russell runs from his apartment in the city to take refuge in his grandmother’s house in the …

The French Dispatch Trailer – “A love letter to Journalists”

Wes Anderson has called his 10th feature, The French Dispatch, a ”love letter to journalists “In the small French town of Ennui-sur-Blasé the editor and writers of The French Dispatch put together a special edition of their magazine.” Wes Anderson has called this, his 10th feature, his ”love letter to …

Kindred Review: Strong performances uplift this unsettling maternal psychodrama

Tamara Lawrence, Fiona Shaw and Jack Lowden star in Kindred, a creepy indie in the vein of Rosemary’s Baby and Get Out Lawrence stars as Charlotte, a young woman living in rural Scotland with her boyfriend Ben under the shadow of his family’s grand but crumbling estate. The pair plan …

The Father Review: Anthony Hopkins At His Career Best

Florian Zeller’s The Father is a fiendishly clever and powerfully affecting dementia drama When The Academy chose to make the 2021 Oscars so heavily about the late, great Chadwick Boseman they clearly weren’t betting on veteran, classically trained Sir Anthony Hopkins snatching the Best Actor trophy (and I can’t really …