 By Adam Ray Palmer
Today’s review is of a documentary film that debuted at LFF this year but I sadly missed it. Luckily enough, the Phoenix in Leicester screened it a week later. My Scientology Movie is written and presented by BBC journalist Louis Theroux and serves as his first feature-length, cinema-released film. This 90-minute feature certainly makes for interesting viewing, but also a little disturbing…
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 By Adam Ray Palmer
Today’s review is a little bit of a rarity on Cineroom. We don’t normally cover many horror/zombie flicks but The Girl with all the Gifts is a little different to the main. Directed by Colm McCarthy (Peaky Blinders series 2) and adapted by the novel authored by Mike Carey, The Girl with all the Gifts stars Gemma Arterton, Glenn Close and Paddy Considine. A packed Phoenix cinema screen awaited this film, pre-judging the movie to be just another zombie thriller. Maybe, just maybe, they would be wrong...  By Adam Ray Palmer
Today’s review is a bit of a mad one. I caught Swiss Army Man in a busy Phoenix theatre which left everyone racking their brains when the credits rolled. Written by the duo Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, known for their quirkiness, their imagination has potentially peaked with this movie. Swiss Army Man stars Daniel Radcliffe and Paul Dano in roles completely out of the ordinary…  By Adam Ray Palmer
My final review from the 60th London Film Festival comes courtesy of the legendary boxing true story of Vinny ‘Paz’ Pazienza. Bleed For This is directed by Ben Younger and stars Miles Teller, Aaron Eckhart and Ciarán Hinds. It’s also executive produced by some bloke called Martin Scorsese. Bleed For This will be released on 4th December by Icon Films.  By Adam Ray Palmer
On Saturday, day four of the 60th London Film Festival, I managed to catch the American-British-Canadian drama film Una. Una is directed by Benedict Andrews and adapted from David Harrower’s play Blackbird. The film stars Rooney Mara, Ben Mendelsohn and Riz Ahmed. I hadn’t researched this hard-hitting drama, but with calibre of actors involved, it was also going to be unmissable at the LFF…  By Adam Ray Palmer
Today’s review is of the thriller The Girl on the Train that has been adapted from novel by Paula Hawkins. Directed by Tate Taylor and starring Emily Blunt and Justin Theroux, The Girl on the Train is screening at the popular Phoenix Leicester. I caught the current UK’s number one box office film at my number one favourite cinema…  By Adam Ray Palmer
Our fifth and only animation film of the 60th London Film Festival is Dreamworks' all-singing-and-all-dancing Trolls. Trolls is directed by Mike Mitchell and Walt Dohrn and stars Anna Kendrick, James Corden, Zooey Deschanel and pop sensation Justin Timberlake. Trolls has been well documented in the press recently and so I was expecting big things from the little guys...  By Adam Ray Palmer
The fourth review from this year's London Film Festival is Amazon Studios' family drama Manchester by the Sea. The film is written and directed by Kenneth Lonergan and stars Casey Affleck, Michelle Williams, Kyle Chandler and Lucas Hedges. Family drama films seem to be dominating the first few days of LFF60, but how does this one rate?  By Adam Ray Palmer
The third review from the 60th London Film Festival is the Arabic dystopian film The Worthy directed by Ali F. Mostafa. The Worthy is brought to the LFF by Image Nation Abu Dhabi and starring Mahmoud Al Atrash and Samer Al Masry. Would the only foreign-language film I’m covering this year also be the best?  By Adam Ray Palmer
Cineroom’s second review from LFF is our first and only documentary we’ll catch this year; the heartfelt and gripping Tower. Tower is brought to LFF by director and producer Keith Maitland who debuted his film at South by Southwest earlier this year. I’d heard lots of good things about this unusual docu-drama and it wasn’t even a film I picked to cover…  By Adam Ray Palmer
Today’s review has been 12 years in the making… finally we have the third (and more than likely final) instalment of the Bridget Jones saga. I caught Bridget Jones’s Baby at the Phoenix Leicester in a packed and pumped theatre with an atmosphere to match. I think I was the only cinema-goer concerned with what quality was about to come, but should I have been worried?  By Adam Ray Palmer
The first review for Cineroom at the 60th London Film Festival is J. A. Bayona’s A Monster Calls that opens in the UK officially on January 6th 2017. Starring an array of talent including Felicity Jones, Toby Kebbell, Liam Neeson, Sigourney Weaver and the young Lewis MacDougall. All the stars are there, but what about the delivery? |
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