Bits & Pieces: Sword Or Shield Edition

27th February 2019

ELECTRIC LOVEwas recently released by Gravitas Ventures and is currently available on Sky Cinema and Amazon. The film is a realistic take on modern dating apps like Tinder and Grindr, following four inter-connected stories, all of which have one common theme: modern communication. It is also the first film to ever explore the under-represented and often misunderstood world of the gay dating app, Grindr.

Otavio and Gilda are a very wealthy couple of the Brazilian elite who have the habit of eating their employees. Otavio owns a private security company and is a notable member of The Cannibal Club. When Gilda accidentally discovers a secret from Borges, a powerful congressman and the Club’s leader, her and her husband’s lives are in grave danger.

BEN IS BACK, written & directed by Peter Hedges (director of Dan in Real Life, co-writer of About a Boy) and starring Julia Roberts (Pretty Woman, Erin Brockovich) Lucas Hedges (Ladybird, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri), Kathryn Newton(Big Little Lies, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri) and Courtney B. Vance (Isle of Dogs, The People Vs. OJ Simpson) will be released on 15 March 2019 in the UK and Ireland by distributor STXinternational. Nineteen-year-old Ben Burns (Lucas Hedges) unexpectedly returns home to his family’s suburban home on Christmas Eve morning. Ben’s mother, Holly (Julia Roberts), is relieved and welcoming but wary of her son staying clean. Over a turbulent 24 hours, new truths are revealed, and a mother’s undying love for her son is tested as she does everything in her power to keep him safe.

BORDER features an astonishing central performance from Eva Melander (Flocking), as a woman out of place in society, and strong support from Eero Milonoff (The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Maki) as the source of her fascination – with both actors undergoing incredible physical transformations for the roles. Directed by Iranian-Danish filmmaker Ali Abbasi, co-written by Isabella Eklöf (dir. Holiday) and LET THE RIGHT ONE IN author John Ajvide Lindqvist on whose story this film is also based, BORDER brilliantly mixes romance, noir, social realism and supernatural horror to a bold and surprising effect.

Lives intertwine and connect when Francesca navigates through the living world by encountering strangers at the exact moment she needs to, sending their lives on either a better course towards happiness or setting the wheels in motion towards a tragic end – all while she secretly searches for a loved one that she never had the chance to say goodbye to.

Four privileged high-school friends are thrown into unknown territory when a web of secrets and lies begins to unravel, threatening to change their lives forever.

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