Tag: Hannah Rae

REVIEW: Martyrs Lane [2021]

Jared Mobarak

I have bad things in my head too. Ten-year old Leah (Kiera Thompson) is caught watching her family like an outsider looking in. Her much older sister (Hannah Rae‘s Bex) is about to leave for college and the milestone has seemingly thrown a wrench into their otherwise simple lives. While their father Thomas (Steven Cree) treats it like a celebration thanks to his faith as the pastor of their local church, their mother Sarah (Denise Gough) appears distracted and perhaps even angry. She begins having nightmares, retreats from the others,…

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TIFF16 REVIEW: City of Tiny Lights [2017]

Jared Mobarak

“Death weighs heavier than heartbreak” Small-time private detective Tommy Akhtar (Riz Ahmed) has all the swagger of a hard-boiled snoop: leather jacket on his shoulders and cigarette in his mouth, leaning against London architecture in the darkened night. His office resides above some shops, he makes friendly with local convenience store owner Mrs. Elbaz (Myriam Acharki), and asks new clients where they found him because he’s not advertising in the paper. But while he’s good at his work and enjoys the struggle if only to get out of his father’s…

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