Latoya Austin, Author at Movie Marker https://www.moviemarker.co.uk/author/latoya-austin/ Award Winning Movie Reviews & News Thu, 06 Nov 2025 19:20:04 +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 Latoya Austin, Author at Movie Marker https://www.moviemarker.co.uk/author/latoya-austin/ 32 32 What To Watch At The French Film Festival UK 2025 https://www.moviemarker.co.uk/what-to-watch-at-the-french-film-festival-uk-2025/ Thu, 06 Nov 2025 19:09:51 +0000 https://www.moviemarker.co.uk/?p=93280 Between 6 November – 14 December 2025, the 33rd edition of the French Film Festival UK excitingly unfolds with 265 films to explore! Cities such as London, Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Warwick and more are participating of French cinema culture. Francophone films alongside this from Luxembourg, Switzerland and Quebec will feature within the festival’s programme as a demonstration of the wide scale of French language films.  Audiences can therefore enjoy a combination of festival hits […]

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]]> London Film Festival 2025 – Dreamers ★★★★ https://www.moviemarker.co.uk/london-film-festival-2025-dreamers-%e2%98%85%e2%98%85%e2%98%85%e2%98%85/ Fri, 31 Oct 2025 17:23:54 +0000 https://www.moviemarker.co.uk/?p=93253 Released: 5 December 2025 Director: Joy Gharoro-Akpojotor Starring: Ann Akinjirin, Ronkẹ Adékọluẹ́jọ́ Dreams of a better life might often be the impetus to leave one’s home country. Dreamers turns this concept on its head by portraying the perspective of those women forced to leave their own country, in a desperate bid to avoid being vilified or persecuted, only to wind up on […]

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]]> Islands ★★★★ https://www.moviemarker.co.uk/islands-%e2%98%85%e2%98%85%e2%98%85%e2%98%85/ Fri, 12 Sep 2025 11:31:27 +0000 https://www.moviemarker.co.uk/?p=92833 Released: 12 September 2025 Director: Jan-Ole Gester Starring: Sam Riley, Stacy Martin, Jack Farthing, Dylan Torrell Sun, sand, sea and summer all year ‘round are words that often left the lips of many, young British school leavers and retired holiday makers swooning about a life in Costa del Sol, or one of those ready-made Jet2 […]

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]]> Lollipop ★★★★ https://www.moviemarker.co.uk/lollipop-%e2%98%85%e2%98%85%e2%98%85%e2%98%85/ Tue, 17 Jun 2025 18:30:38 +0000 https://www.moviemarker.co.uk/?p=92363 Released: 6 June 2025 Director: Daisy May-Hudson Starring: Posy Sterling, Teri Ann Cousins, Idil Ahmed, Tegan-Mia-Stanley Rhoads, Luke Howitt Kitchen sink dramas and slice of life films tend to be the preserve of Ken Loach offering that insight into the struggles of working-class communities. Lollipop adopts a similar perspective from East London but is in […]

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]]> SXSW London 2025 – Stans ★★★★ https://www.moviemarker.co.uk/sxsw-london-2025-stans-%e2%98%85%e2%98%85%e2%98%85%e2%98%85/ Tue, 03 Jun 2025 20:39:39 +0000 https://moviemarker.co.uk/?p=92322 Released: TBC (SXSW London 2025) Director: Steven Leckart As the opening night film of the inaugural SXSW London 2025, Stans was bound to be an evocative film. Based around Eminem’s iconic track Stan, about an obsessed fan, this reflective and meditative, heartfelt documentary was produced by Eminem’s production company and renders homage to his fandom, […]

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]]> Sundance 2025 – Ricky ★★★★ https://www.moviemarker.co.uk/sundance-2025-ricky-%e2%98%85%e2%98%85%e2%98%85%e2%98%85/ Sun, 23 Feb 2025 02:05:10 +0000 https://moviemarker.co.uk/?p=91234 Released: TBC (Sundance 2025) Director: Rashad Frett Starring: Stephan James, Simbi Kali, Malia Johnson, Sheryl Lee Ralph, Imani Lewis, Titus Welliver, Andrene Ward-Hammond and Sean Nelson Carrying the weight of the world on his shoulders, the eponymous Ricky is a marked example of the impact of arrested development due to youth incarceration. Ricky is a […]

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]]> The Tasting (La Dégustation) ★★★ https://www.moviemarker.co.uk/the-tasting-la-degustation-%e2%98%85%e2%98%85%e2%98%85/ Thu, 06 Feb 2025 02:39:23 +0000 https://moviemarker.co.uk/?p=91099 Released: 31 January 2025 Director: Ivan Calbérac Starring: Isabelle Carré, Bernard Campan, Mounir Amamra, Eric Viellard When French language, love and wine collide as they do in The Tasting, aka La Dégustation in France, there is bound to be an instant recipe for success! The question is does The Tasting live up to such expectations? […]

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