Tag: Lisa Palfrey

REVIEW: Make Up [2020]

Jared Mobarak

It’s not about what it looks like. It’s about how it makes you feel. Ruth (Molly Windsor) had to escape. She’s been dating Tom (Joseph Quinn) for three years only to spend the first two winters together alone while he worked at a seaside holiday spot in Cornwall during its tourist-free months. She made certain this time would be different, though. Maybe her parents finally gave her permission or maybe being eighteen finally gave her the determination to go regardless—it honestly doesn’t matter. All that does is Ruth’s arrival. She’s…

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REVIEW: Pride [2014]

Jared Mobarak

“Oh good. I haven’t spoken 1950s in ages.” If you’re going to make a film with a sprawling ensemble of characters equally unique and important to the point where your only true lead is a message of solidarity and comradery itself, it’s a good move to look towards the theater. Pride is the screenwriting debut of actor/playwright Stephen Beresford and only the second film from Broadway director Matthew Warchus with fifteen-years in between and yet it feels like they’ve both been working in the industry for ages. They have wrangled…

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