Tag Archives: Drama

Review in Brief: Coda (2021)

Posted on September 2, 2021 by Sam Sewell-Peterson

I wasn’t going to cry during CODA, but then they deployed the Joni Mitchell. Ruby (Emilia Jones) is the teenage Child of Deaf Adults, acting as her family’s interpreter on their fishing boat and in their local community. But when … Continue reading →

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Review in Brief: Another Round (2020)

Posted on July 29, 2021 by Sam Sewell-Peterson

Alcohol: the great social liberator and the great destroyer, or as Homer Simpson famously put it “the cause of, and solution to all of life’s problems”. ANOTHER ROUND follows a group of middle-class friends and teachers in Denmark who experiment … Continue reading →

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Review in Brief: Supernova (2020)

Posted on July 12, 2021 by Sam Sewell-Peterson

SUPERNOVA is a drama as much about what is left unsaid to loved ones as it is about living with dementia. We follow Sam (Colin Firth) and Tusker (Stanley Tucci) an artistic couple who are on holiday in the Lake … Continue reading →

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Review in Brief: The Father (2020)

Posted on June 25, 2021 by Sam Sewell-Peterson

There have been many dementia dramas but few that attempt to put audiences in the POV of the person slipping away. THE FATHER is best seen with as little prior reading as possible, the tricky-clever ways the very building blocks … Continue reading →

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Review in Brief: Rare Beasts (2019/21)

Posted on June 24, 2021 by Sam Sewell-Peterson

Billie Piper’s directorial debut RARE BEASTS is one of the funniest and most profound, but also perhaps the most uncomfortable of films to watch this year. From an opening dinner date scene incorporating discussion of “gummy blowjobs”, Piper is completely … Continue reading →

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Review in Brief: Black Bear (2020/21)

Posted on May 19, 2021 by Sam Sewell-Peterson

There have been plenty of meta, reality-bending films about writing a screenplay, many from this century made by Charlie Kaufman. BLACK BEAR boasts a wonderful performance from Aubrey Plaza as an actor turned-writer-director looking for inspiration, but asks you to … Continue reading →

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Review in Brief: Nomadland (2020)

Posted on May 3, 2021 by Sam Sewell-Peterson

Arguably no filmmaker since Agnés Varda has blended elements of documentary and fiction together as effectively as Chloé Zhao. NOMADLAND’s narrative is loose and meandering, but only to reflect the Nomad on-the-move, purposeful and yet purposeless lifestyle. Following industrial collapse … Continue reading →

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Review in Brief: Promising Young Woman (2020)

Posted on April 22, 2021 by Sam Sewell-Peterson

With PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN writer-director Emerald Fennell has crafted one of the most challenging and keen-edged debut films in years, and it’s making just the right kinds of people mad. Cassie (Carey Mulligan) spends her evenings pretending to be blackout … Continue reading →

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Review in Brief: Judas and the Black Messiah (2020)

Posted on April 16, 2021 by Sam Sewell-Peterson

JUDAS AND THE BLACK MESSIAH tells a heightened version of a story that everyone should know, and tells it with righteous anger. Unfortunately some elements of the film’s abundant style do admittedly get in the way, like the depiction of … Continue reading →

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Review in Brief: Minari (2020)

Posted on April 15, 2021 by Sam Sewell-Peterson

There’s no debate, MINARI is an American film – what could be more American than a tale of a family buying a farm and dreaming of living off the land? It’s astounding that the film features two of the first … Continue reading →

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