I Am Greta Review TIFF 2020
The Plot The journey of 15 year old Greta Thunberg from sitting alone on the streets outside the Swedish parliament protesting climate change to being a globally recognised and deeply controversial figurehead for Climate activism is captured in an extensive carefully curated documentary. Showcasing her headline grabbing speeches, private exchanges with world leaders and the [...]
City Hall Review TIFF 2020
The Plot A monumentally vast documentary capturing the full tapestry of Boston city services in painstaking detail, giving a uniquely sprawling portrait of the daily y functional reality of the life of a major city. The Good Frederick Wiseman is a uniquely passionate and through filmmaker who has dedicated a lifetime to capturing America on [...]
76 Days Review TIFF 2020
The Plot Director Hao Wu’s & Weixi Chen’s detailed documentary account of life inside the 76 day lockdown in the Chinese city of Wuhan. The original epicentre of the COVID 19 global pandemic. Following a small team of hospital workers as they struggle to deal with the unprecedented medical crisis and a relentless stream of [...]
MLK/FBI Review TIFF 2020
The Plot A documentary film exploring newly declassified US government documentation of the FBI’s relentless surveillance campaign against Martin Luther King Jr. The Good Director Sam Pollard has carefully assembled a complete visual record of the fraught and deeply adversarial relationship between Nobel Prize winning civil rights spokesman Martin Luther King Jr and J Edgar [...]
The Way I See It Review TIFF 2020
The Plot A documentary giving voice to former chief official White House photographer Pete Souza allowing him a platform to reflect on his lengthy career and express his views on his intimate time working in the Obama presidency and his clearly strong views on its aftermath The Good Throughout a lengthy and much lauded career [...]
Enemies Of The State Review TIFF 2020
The Plot A documentary following a seemingly ordinary American family from Indiana entangled in a bizarre web of secrets and lies after their son became a target of major U.S. government attention due to his allegedly criminal online activities, making them all in effect ‘Enemies Of the State’. The Good Enemies of The State is [...]
Spike Lee Documentary Opens Toronto Film Festival 2020
Director Spike Lee’s new film American Utopia has opens this year’s down scaled Toronto International Film Festival 2020. The film is a record of Talking Heads front man David Byrne’s 2019 concert show and played at two open air drive-in cinemas on Thursday. Only film fans based in the city are allowed to attend physical [...]
Broadcasting Press Guild Awards 2019 Winners
The full list of BPG TV and Radio Awards winners is: Best Single Drama/Mini-series A Very English Scandal A Blueprint Pictures production for the BBC and Amazon Studios Best Drama Series Killing Eve A Sid Gentle Films Ltd production for BBC America, internationally distributed by Endeavor Content Best Single Documentary Grenfell A Minnow Films production [...]
Eric Clapton Life In 12 Bars Interviews
Check out interviews below from the Toronto International Film Festival with musical icon Eric Clapton and director Lili Fini Zanuck about much anticipated musical documentary Eric Clapton Life In 12 Bars. The film charts the life and career of one of the greatest guitarists of all time in intimate detail. Eric Clapton: Life in 12 [...]
Sachin Tendulkar Documentary & Cricket Icons
Cricket fans will be able to celebrate the life and career of legendary Indian cricketer Sachin Tendulkar by watching new feature length film SACHIN: A BILLION DREAMS, which will be available on DVD and Digital HD from 4th December 2017. This insightful sports documentary from director James Erskine tells Tendulkar’s story from his career debut at [...]