The next film that I viewed was Ekwa Msangi’s Farewell Amor. Written and directed by Msangi, Farewell Amor is a 101 minute drama following an Angolan family who are reunited in New York City after seventeen years apart. Walter (Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine) has been working as a taxi driver in New York and living… Read More London Film Festival 2020 – Farewell Amor
Working my way back through each Best Picture winner and ranking them was always going to be a difficult task but even I wasn’t expecting it to be this challenging. For this post, I will be looking at films from the 2000s. It was during this decade that I started to pay close attention to… Read More Academy Award Best Picture Ranking: the 2000s
Another film that I have been meaning to see since its release, Sorry to Bother You is a brilliant study of capitalism in modern day America. Written and directed by Boots Riley in a fantastic debut, we follow Cassius “Cash” Green (Lakeith Stanfield) as he starts a career in RegalView, a telemarketing centre and his rise… Read More Sorry to Bother You (2018)
“If you figure a way to live without serving a master, any master, then let the rest of us know, will you? For you’d be the first person in the history of the world.” Lancaster Dodd, The Master (dir. by Paul Thomas Anderson, 2012) By the time this statement is spoken, we have seen the relationship between… Read More The Sworn Enemy in ‘The Master’
