The Eternal Memory, 2023. Directed by Maite Alberdi. SYNOPSIS: Augusto and Paulina have been together for 25 years. Eight years ago, he was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. Both fear the day he no longer recognises her. Maite Alberdi follows up her thoroughly charming, Oscar-nominated documentary The Mole Agent with another intimate film about the toils […]
2023 Sundance Film Festival Review – Eileen
Eileen, 2023. Directed by William Oldroyd. Starring Thomasin McKenzie, Anne Hathaway, Shea Whigham, Owen Teague, and Marin Ireland. SYNOPSIS: A woman’s friendship with a new co-worker at the prison facility where she works takes a sinister turn. Anyone who saw William Oldroyd’s feature debut Lady Macbeth should know to expect more from his follow-up than the […]
2023 Sundance Film Festival Review – Cat Person
Cat Person, 2023. Directed by Susanna Fogel. Starring Emilia Jones, Nicholas Braun, Geraldine Viswanathan, Hope Davis, Fred Melamed, and Isabella Rossellini. SYNOPSIS: Follows the brief relationship between twenty-year-old sophomore college student Margot, and an older man Robert, who is a regular at the movie theater where Margot works. The promise of adapting Kristen Roupenian’s iconic […]
2023 Sundance Film Festival Review – Iron Butterflies
Iron Butterflies, 2022. Written and directed by Roman Liubyi. SYNOPSIS: In summer 2014, sunflower fields and coal mines in eastern Ukraine turn into a 12 square kilometers crime scene. A multi-layered investigation into the downing of flight MH17, in which a butterfly-shaped shrapnel found in the pilot’s body implicated the state responsible for a war […]
2023 Sundance Film Festival Review – Plan C
Plan C, 2023. Directed by Tracy Droz Tragos. SYNOPSIS: A secret grassroots organisation persistently fights to expand access to abortion pills across the USA keeping hope alive during a global pandemic and the fall of Roe v. Wade. Almost a full decade after her debut documentary Rich Hill won the U.S. Grand Jury Prize at […]
2023 Sundance Film Festival Review – Infinity Pool
Infinity Pool, 2023. Written and Directed by Brandon Cronenberg. Starring Alexander Skarsgård, Mia Goth, Cleopatra Coleman, and Thomas Kretschmann. SYNOPSIS: James and Em Foster are enjoying an all-inclusive beach vacation in the fictional island of La Tolqa, when a fatal accident exposes the resort’s perverse subculture of hedonistic tourism, reckless violence, and surreal horrors. Brandon […]
2023 Sundance Film Festival Review – The Disappearance of Shere Hite
The Disappearance of Shere Hite, 2023. Directed by Nicole Newnham. SYNOPSIS: Shere Hite’s bestselling book The Hite Report liberated the female orgasm by revealing the most private experiences of thousands of anonymous surveys. Her findings rocked the American establishment and opened current conversations about gender and sexuality. The latest documentary from Oscar-nominated filmmaker Nicole Newnham […]
Movie Review – Swallowed (2022)
Swallowed, 2022. Written and directed by Carter Smith. Starring Jena Malone, Cooper Koch, Mark Patton, and Jose Colon. SYNOPSIS: Follows two best friends on their final night together, with a nightmare of drugs, bugs, and horrific intimacy. Carter Smith’s (The Ruins, Jamie Marks Is Dead) third film Swallowed is difficult-to-categorise in a most exciting way […]
2023 Sundance Film Festival Review – AUM: The Cult at the End of the World
AUM: The Cult at the End of the World, 2023. Directed by Ben Braun and Chiaki Yanagimoto. SYNOPSIS: On March 20, 1995, a deadly gas attack in the Tokyo subway sent the nation and its people into chaos. This exploration of Aum Shinrikyo, who were responsible for the attack, involves the participation of those who […]
2023 Sundance Film Festival Review – Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie
Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie, 2023. Directed by Davis Guggenheim. Starring Michael J. Fox. SYNOPSIS: Follows the life of beloved actor and advocate Michael J. Fox, exploring his personal and professional triumphs and travails, and what happens when an incurable optimist confronts an incurable disease. It’s incredibly rare for an actor who has stepped […]
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