Ryan Collins, Author at Movie Marker https://www.moviemarker.co.uk/author/ryan-collins/ Award Winning Movie Reviews & News Tue, 21 Oct 2025 17:40:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 https://www.moviemarker.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/cropped-11825547_871819026233149_6161467757169643488_n-11-80x80.jpg Ryan Collins, Author at Movie Marker https://www.moviemarker.co.uk/author/ryan-collins/ 32 32 London Film Festival 2025 – Is This Thing On? ★★★★★ https://www.moviemarker.co.uk/london-film-festival-2025-is-this-thing-on-%e2%98%85%e2%98%85%e2%98%85%e2%98%85%e2%98%85/ Tue, 21 Oct 2025 17:40:18 +0000 https://www.moviemarker.co.uk/?p=93199 Released: 30 January 2026 Director: Bradley Cooper Starring: Will Arnett, Laura Dern As a filmmaker, Bradley Cooper has emerged as one of our most emotionally outspoken artists. His first two films, A Star is Born and Maestro, were deeply enveloped around the intimacy between people amidst the backdrops of musical ingenuity and struggles. Is This Thing On? operates in a similar vein, whose stripped […]

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]]> London Film Festival 2025 – No Other Choice ★★★★★ https://www.moviemarker.co.uk/london-film-festival-2025-no-other-choice-%e2%98%85%e2%98%85%e2%98%85%e2%98%85%e2%98%85/ Sun, 19 Oct 2025 00:41:39 +0000 https://www.moviemarker.co.uk/?p=93160 Released: TBC (London Film Festival) Director: Park Chan-Wook Starring: Lee Byung-Hun Most of the modern world exists either as victims or perpetrators of late stage capitalism. With Park Chan-Wook’s Magnum Opus, No Other Choice, that line between prognosticator and sufferer is slowly, viscously collapsed. With some of the most inventive imagery and editing of this decade, Park expertly […]

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]]> Perfect Days ★★★★★ https://www.moviemarker.co.uk/perfect-days/ Fri, 03 Nov 2023 17:16:58 +0000 https://moviemarker.co.uk/?p=85854 Director: Wim Wenders Cast: Koji Yakusho, Arisa Nakano, Tokio Emoto, Min Tanaka Release Date: 9th February 2024 (UK) Presence goes beyond your aura but extends to your ability to be present. Perfect Days is that presence. It is a film explicitly about the joys of solitude and being present. It’s so hard to make that […]

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]]> Occupied City ★★★★★ https://www.moviemarker.co.uk/occupied-city/ Mon, 09 Oct 2023 10:15:58 +0000 https://moviemarker.co.uk/?p=85731 Director: Steve McQueen Cast: Melanie Hyams Release Date: London Film Festival 2023 We all inhabit spaces with an immense sense of history. Where we work, eat, sleep, love, and live all were inhabited by other people at different times throughout the history of the human race, even if the buildings, layouts, or infrastructure have been […]

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]]> The Whale ★★★★★ https://www.moviemarker.co.uk/the-whale/ Thu, 19 Jan 2023 10:20:11 +0000 https://moviemarker.co.uk/?p=83112 Directors: Darren Aronofsky Cast: Brendan Fraser, Sadie Sink, Hong Chau, and Ty Simpkins Release: 3rd February 2023 The Whale is a film about chances. Not second chances, not even third, but the idea that we have a chance to exhibit our good qualities despite our bad choices. Aronofsky has made a career of forcing audiences to […]

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]]> Bones and All ★★★★★ https://www.moviemarker.co.uk/bones-and-all/ Sun, 20 Nov 2022 22:44:23 +0000 https://moviemarker.co.uk/?p=82836 Director: Luca Guadagnino Cast: Taylor Russell, Timothée Chalamet, and Mark Rylance Release Date: November 25, 2022 (UK) Bones and All is an emotionally transcendent genre mash-up. With glee, it wears its road movie, cannibalistic horror, and romance/coming-of-age tropes on its sleeves. Still, by combining disparate elements, the film’s identity, much like its main characters, is […]

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]]> Holy Spider ★★★★★ https://www.moviemarker.co.uk/holy-spider/ Sun, 16 Oct 2022 11:03:25 +0000 https://moviemarker.co.uk/?p=82386 Director: Ali Abbasi Cast: Zar Amir-Ebrahimi, Mehdi Bajestani, Arash Ashtiani, and Forouzan Jamshidnejad Release Date: London Film Festival 2022 Ali Abbasi is one of this generation’s most exciting global filmmakers. His films combine various perspectives, cultures, and an objective lens that reflects his unique worldview as a citizen of two different nations in two different […]

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