Delphine’s Prayers/Les prières de Delphine (2021) Director: Rosine Mbakam Rosine Mbakam’s latest feature documentary, Delphine’s Prayers, offers a powerful, intimate portrait of a young Cameroonian woman navigating life as an immigrant in Belgium. Mbakam, known for her empathetic films about African migrant women, frames this work as an extended, candid interview with Delphine, a 30-year-old … Read more
Songs for the River (2021) Director: Charlotte Ginsborg Charlotte Ginsborg’s documentary Songs for the River offers a concise, moving portrait of one small riverside community in London as it navigates the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic. Filmed between April 2020 and January 2021, the film centers on the residents of Brandrams Wharf, a riverside social … Read more
Juste un mouvement / Just A Movement (2021) Director: Vincent Meessen “Cinema can serve to explore the creation of forms, their embryology.” Jean-Luc Godard Vincent Meessen’s documentary Juste un mouvement (Just A Movement) revisits the life, ideas and political legacy of Omar Blondin Diop, a Senegalese student activist who briefly appeared in Jean-Luc Godard’s 1967 … Read more
Everybody’s Talking About Jamie (2021) Director: Jonathan Butterell Screenwriter: Tom MacRae Starring: Max Harwood, Sarah Lancashire, Lauren Patel, Richard E. Grant, Samuel Bottomley, Ralph Ineson The movie musical has a unique resilience in popular cinema: it can be nostalgic, glitzy, moving and defiantly theatrical all at once. In 2021 the genre continued to thrive, and … Read more
Adam Sandler has been one of Hollywood’s most recognizable movie stars for nearly thirty years. He rose to fame as a cast member on Saturday Night Live in the early-to-mid 1990s and then parlayed that success into a leading film career. Sandler became widely known for irreverent Generation X comedies such as Billy Madison and, … Read more
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021) Director: Destin Daniel Cretton Screenwriters: Dave Callaham, Destin Daniel Cretton, Andrew Lanham Starring: Simu Liu, Awkwafina, Tony Leung, Meng’er Zhang, Fala Chen, Michelle Yeoh, Florian Muneanu, Andy Le, Benedict Wong Shang-Chi’s journey from a supporting character in 1970s comic books to a leading figure on the … Read more
This article was originally published to SSP Thinks Film by Sam Sewell-Peterson. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011) Director: Tomas Alfredson Screenwriters: Bridget O’Connor, Peter Straughan Starring: Gary Oldman, Colin Firth, Mark Strong, Benedict Cumberbatch, Tom Hardy, John Hurt, Toby Jones, Ciarán Hinds, David Dencik, Roger Lloyd Pack, Stephen Graham, Kathy Burke, Simon McBurney Tomas Alfredson’s … Read more
The Green Knight to Debut in Cinemas and on Amazon Prime Video on 24 September 2021 Fans long awaiting David Lowery’s atmospheric medieval film The Green Knight can finally relax: the Dev Patel-led picture will be released simultaneously in cinemas and on Amazon Prime Video on 24 September 2021. The hybrid release brings a major … Read more
The Road Dance (2021) Director: Richie Adams Screenwriter: Richie Adams Starring: Hermione Corfield, Will Fletcher, Mark Gatiss Richie Adams’ The Road Dance arrives as a quietly ambitious addition to contemporary Scottish cinema, adapting John MacKay’s novel into a visually rich period drama. Set on a remote island in the Outer Hebrides during the First World … Read more
Candyman (2021) Director: Nia DaCosta Screenwriters: Jordan Peele, Win Rosenfeld, Nia DaCosta Starring: Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Teyonah Parris, Nathan Stewart-Jarrett, Colman Domingo, Tony Todd, Virginia Madsen, Vanessa Williams Candyman (2021), produced and co-written by Jordan Peele, arrives as a modern sequel to the 1992 original inspired by Clive Barker’s short story “The Forbidden.” Director Nia … Read more