Ultraviolence (2020) Director: Ken Fero Screenwriter: Tariq Mehmood Ultraviolence is a potent and uncompromising documentary that examines deaths in police custody in the UK between 1995 and 2005. Through interviews with family members, archival CCTV footage from inside police stations, and animated reconstructions where footage does not exist, the film constructs a careful, devastating portrait … Read more
Wildfire (2020) — Film Review This article was written exclusively for The Film Magazine by Jack Cameron. Wildfire (2020) Director: Cathy Brady Screenwriter: Cathy Brady Starring: Nika McGuigan, Nora-Jane Noone, Kate Dickie, Martin McCann Opening with a montage of archival-style footage—soldiers on Belfast streets, bombs, arrests, incarceration and family tragedy—Wildfire quickly situates itself in the … Read more
The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2020) Director: Aaron Sorkin Screenwriter: Aaron Sorkin Starring: Eddie Redmayne, Alex Sharp, Sacha Baron Cohen, Jeremy Strong, John Carroll Lynch, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Mark Rylance, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Frank Langella Aaron Sorkin is a writer and director whose work tends to arrive sparingly but with impact. After landmark screenplays such … Read more
One Night In Miami (2020) Director: Regina King Screenwriter: Kemp Powers Starring: Kingsley Ben-Adir, Eli Goree, Aldis Hodge, Leslie Odom Jr., Lance Reddick, Christian Magby If you could choose any four people in the world and put them in a room together, who would they be? In her assured directorial debut, Regina King imagines a … Read more
Zombieland (2009) Director: Ruben Fleischer Screenwriters: Rhett Reese, Paul Wernick Starring: Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Emma Stone, Abigail Breslin Imagine, for a moment, that the world has collapsed into a full-scale zombie apocalypse. Streets are deserted, internet access is unreliable if it exists at all, and the people you once trusted could turn on you … Read more
Cicada (2020) Directors: Matthew Fifer, Kieran Mulcare Screenwriter: Matthew Fifer Starring: Matthew Fifer, Sheldon D. Brown, Cobie Smulders, David Burtka, Bowen Yang, Scott Adsit Cicada is an unusually quiet New York film. Instead of the typical urban noise, the soundscape leans toward birdsong and distant seaside ambience, and many scenes unfold in unexpectedly empty spaces. … Read more
Wolfwalkers (2020) Director: Tomm Moore, Ross Stewart Screenwriter: Will Collins Starring: Honor Kneafsey, Eva Whittaker, Sean Bean, Simon McBurney Cartoon Saloon returns with Wolfwalkers, a 2020 animated folk fantasy that deepens the studio’s reputation for blending mythic storytelling with arresting hand-drawn visuals. Set in Kilkenny, Ireland, during the English conquest under Oliver Cromwell, the film … Read more
Supernova (2020) Director: Harry MacQueen Screenwriter: Harry MacQueen Starring: Colin Firth, Stanley Tucci “Being sad something is gone just means it was great whilst it was there.” Supernova follows a middle-aged couple who undertake a gentle but emotionally charged road trip across the United Kingdom as one partner’s early-onset dementia begins to reshape their lives. … Read more
Undine (2020) — Film Review Director: Christian Petzold Screenwriter: Christian Petzold Starring: Paula Beer, Franz Rogowski, Maryam Zaree, Jacob Matschenz, Anne Ratte-Polle Undine, directed and written by Christian Petzold and released in 2020, is a Berlin-set drama that moves between social realism and a darker, modern fairy tale. Nominated for the Golden Bear at the … Read more
Kajillionaire (2020) Director: Miranda July Screenwriter: Miranda July Starring: Evan Rachel Wood, Richard Jenkins, Debra Winger, Gina Rodriguez Miranda July’s Kajillionaire is a compact, idiosyncratic film that blends heist tropes, coming-of-age beats, and an unexpectedly tender love story. At its center is a deeply unconventional family of small-time con artists living in Los Angeles, and … Read more