Shaun Munro reviews 2021’s Oscar-nominated live-action short films…We’re right on the eve of the 93rd Academy Awards, and in an attempt to foreground the typically under-discussed short film categories, this review series tackles each of the three fields – Animated, Live-Action, and Documentary.True to form, this year’s batch of live-action nominees offer hard-hitting depictions of […]
Oscars 2021: Best Animated Short Film Nominees Reviewed
Shaun Munro reviews 2021’s Oscar-nominated animated short films…With the 93rd Academy Awards imminently due to take place, what better time to shine a light on the typically underserved short film categories? This year’s slate of nominees for the Best Animated Short Film Oscar range from traditional and quaint to boundary-pushing, transgressive, and inevitably heartbreaking.The short […]
Video Game Review – Before Your Eyes
Shaun Munro reviews Before Your Eyes…Affecting, character-driven drama is undermined by a clumsy central gameplay conceit in the well-intentioned yet only partially successful new indie “experience” Before Your Eyes. Said conceit is nothing if not daring, though – to shepherd players forward by using their own eye blinks as inputs, which the game tracks through […]
Movie Review – He Dreams of Giants (2019)
He Dreams of Giants, 2021.Directed by Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe. Starring Terry Gilliam.SYNOPSIS:15 years after Lost in La Mancha, Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe come back to follow Terry Gilliam’s new (successful) attempt at filming The Man Who Killed Don Quixote.Back in 2002, filmmakers Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe released Lost in La Mancha, […]
2021 SXSW Film Festival Review – Who We Are: A Chronicle of Racism in America
Who We Are: A Chronicle of Racism in America, 2021.Directed by Emily Kunstler and Sarah Kunstler. Starring Jeffery Robinson.SYNOPSIS:ACLU lawyer Jeffery Robinson’s shattering talk on the history of U.S. anti-Black racism is interwoven with archival footage, interviews, and Robinson’s story, exploring the legacy of white supremacy and our collective responsibility to overcome it.If the prospect […]
2021 SXSW Film Festival Review – The Return: Life After ISIS
The Return: Life After ISIS, 2021.Directed by Alba Sotorra Clua.SYNOPSIS:Shamima Begum and Hoda Muthana made worldwide headlines when they left their countries as teenagers to join ISIS. Now they want to return but their countries don’t want them back.Alba Sotorra Clua’s new documentary tackles a highly contentious, emotionally charged subject with piercing, humanistic insight, as […]
2021 SXSW Film Festival Review – We Are As Gods
We Are As Gods, 2021.Directed by Jason Sussberg and David Alvarado. Starring Stewart Brand.SYNOPSIS:Stewart Brand, the pioneer of LSD, cyberspace, futurism, and modern environmentalism now urges people to use our god-like powers to fight extinction by reviving lost species.What seemingly begins as a standard-yet-compelling profile of futurist Stuart Brand soon enough springboards into something more […]
2021 SXSW Film Festival Review – Ludi
Ludi, 2021.Co-written and directed by Edson Jean. Starring Shein Mompremier, Alan Myles Heyman, Madelin Marchant, Success St. Fleur Jr., Kerline Alce, Plus Pierre, Patrice DeGraff Arenas, and Farah Larrieux.SYNOPSIS:Ludi, a hardworking and exhausted nurse, battles coworkers, clients, and one impatient bus driver to learn her self-worth as she chases the American Dream in Miami’s Little […]
2021 SXSW Film Festival Review – Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché
Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché, 2021.Directed by Paul Sng, and Celeste Bell. Starring Celeste Bell.SYNOPSIS:The death of punk icon and X-Ray Spex frontwoman Poly Styrene sends her daughter on a journey across the world and through her mother’s archives to reconcile their fraught relationship.From the outset it’s clear that Poly Styrene: I Am a […]
2021 SXSW Film Festival Review – The Drover’s Wife: The Legend of Molly Johnson
The Drover’s Wife: The Legend of Molly Johnson, 2021.Written and directed by Leah Purcell. Starring Leah Purcell, Rob Collins, Sam Reid, Jessica De Gouw, and Malachi Dower-Roberts.SYNOPSIS:A lonely bushwoman struggles to raise her children and run the family farm while her husband is away.The western genre is so seemingly, inextricably intertwined with masculinity that it’s […]
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