BFI London Film Festival 2018

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The Popcorn Muncher Podcast – LFF 2018 #3 with Kelechi Ehenulo

22/10/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment BFI London Film Festival, BFI London Film Festival 2018, If Beale Street Could Talk, LFF, Outlaw King, Podcast, Sorry to Bother You, Stan & Ollie, The Favourite, The Popcorn Muncher Podcast, The Sisters Brothers, Widows

We look back at the BFI London Film Festival 2018, with reviews of comedy Stan & Ollie, royal comedy The Favourite and If Beale Street Could Talk.

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LFF 2018 – If Beale Street Could Talk, Only You, Benjamin

21/10/201829/10/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment Barry Jenkins, Benjamin, BFI London Film Festival, BFI London Film Festival 2018, Brian Tyree Henry, Colin Morgan, Ed Skrein, Harry Wootliff, If Beale Street Could Talk, Joel Fry, Josh O'Connor, KiKi Layne, Laia Costa, LFF, Only You, Phénix Brossard, Regina King, Simon Amstell, Stephan Jones

Barry Jenkins brings his heartfelt, poetic Moonlight follow-up, If Beale Street Could Talk, to the London Film Festival.

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LFF 2018 – The Favourite, The Fight

19/10/201816/03/2019 Tom Beasley 0 Comment Alice Lowe, BFI London Film Festival, BFI London Film Festival 2018, Christopher Fairbank, Emma Stone, Jessica Hynes, LFF, Nicholas Hoult, Olivia Colman, Rachel Weisz, Russell Brand, Sally Phillips, Sennia Nanua, Shaun Parkes, The Favourite, The Fight, Yorgos Lanthimos

The London Film Festival delivers Yorgos Lanthimos’s Oscar-tipped The Favourite and Jessica Hynes’s directorial debut The Fight.

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LFF 2018 – Outlaw King, In Fabric, Birds of Passage

18/10/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment BFI London Film Festival, BFI London Film Festival 2018, Billy Howle, Birds of Passage, Carmina Martinez, Chris Pine, Ciro Guerra, Cristina Gallego, David Mackenzie, Fatma Mohamed, Florence Pugh, Hayley Squires, In Fabric, José Acosta, Julian Barratt, Leo Bill, LFF, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Natalia Reyes, Outlaw King, Peter Strickland, Stephen Dillane, Steve Oram, Tony Curran

London Film Festival continues with Scottish historical epic Outlaw King and the giallo homage In Fabric, from director Peter Strickland.

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The Popcorn Muncher Podcast – LFF 2018 #2 with Sarah Cook

16/10/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment Alfonso Cuarón, Beautiful Boy, BFI London Film Festival, BFI London Film Festival 2018, Green Book, LFF, Luca Guadagnino, Podcast, Robert Redford, Roma, Suspiria, The Old Man and the Gun, The Popcorn Muncher Podcast

Film critic Sarah Cook joins the podcast to review some new LFF screenings, including Suspiria, Beautiful Boy, Roma and Green Book.

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LFF 2018 – Wild Rose, Profile, Sunset

16/10/201816/10/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment BFI London Film Festival, BFI London Film Festival 2018, Christine Adams, Géza Röhrig, Jessie Buckley, Juli Jakab, Julie Walters, László Nemes, LFF, Profile, Shazad Latif, Sunset, Timur Bekmambetov, Tom Harper, Valene Kane, Wild Rose

The London Film Festival delivered its biggest crowd-pleaser yet with Scottish musical Wild Rose, while Timur Bekmambetov thrilled with Profile.

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LFF 2018 – The Front Runner, Maya

15/10/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment Aarshi Banerjee, Alfred Molina, BFI London Film Festival, BFI London Film Festival 2018, Hugh Jackman, Jason Reitman, JK Simmons, LFF, Maya, Mia Hansen-Løve, Molly Ephraim, Roman Kolinka, Sara Paxton, The Front Runner, Vera Farmiga

The London Film Festival continues with Jason Reitman’s political drama The Front Runner and Mia Hansen-Løve’s romantic drama Maya.

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LFF 2018 – Roma, Beautiful Boy, The Hummingbird Project

14/10/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment Alexander Skarsgård, Alfonso Cuarón, Beautiful Boy, BFI London Film Festival, BFI London Film Festival 2018, Felix van Groeningen, Jesse Eisenberg, Jorge Antonio Guerrero, Kim Nguyen, LFF, Roma, Salma Hayek, Steve Carell, The Hummingbird Project, Timothée Chalamet, Yalitza Aparicio

LFF continues with Alfonso Cuarón’s beautiful drama Roma and the intense addiction story Beautiful Boy, starring Timothée Chalamet.

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The Popcorn Muncher Podcast – LFF 2018 #1 with Alistair Ryder

14/10/201813/10/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment Ben Wheatley, BFI London Film Festival, BFI London Film Festival 2018, Boots Riley, Colette, Happy New Year Colin Burstead, Keira Knightley, LFF, Podcast, Sorry to Bother You, Steve McQueen, The Popcorn Muncher Podcast, Widows

It’s the first days of the London Film Festival 2018 and there’s already plenty to review with critic Alistair Ryder, including opening movie Widows.

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LFF 2018 – Suspiria, The Old Man and the Gun

13/10/201813/10/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment BFI London Film Festival, BFI London Film Festival 2018, Casey Affleck, Dakota Johnson, David Lowery, LFF, Luca Guadagnino, Robert Redford, Sissy Spacek, Suspiria, The Old Man and the Gun, Tilda Swinton

The London Film Festival serves up two very different movies with the macabre madness of Suspiria and The Old Man and the Gun.

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LFF 2018 – Sorry to Bother You, Colette, Happy New Year Colin Burstead

12/10/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment Armie Hammer, Asim Chaudhry, Ben Wheatley, BFI London Film Festival, BFI London Film Festival 2018, Bill Paterson, Boots Riley, Charles Dance, Colette, David Cross, Denise Gough, Dominic West, Eleanor Tomlinson, Happy New Year Colin Burstead, Hayley Squires, Joe Cole, Keira Knightley, LaKeith Stanfield, LFF, Neil Maskell, Omari Hardwick, Sam Riley, Sorry to Bother You, Steven Yeun, Tessa Thompson, Wash Westmoreland

Boots Riley’s Sorry to Bother You finally hits UK at LFF, while Ben Wheatley returns with Happy New Year, Colin Burstead.

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