The Oxy Kingpins, 2021.Directed by Brendan Fitzgerald.SYNOPSIS:Covers the untold story of how a network of pharmaceutical manufacturers, distributors, and retailers worked together to orchestrate and perpetuate the opioid crisis that has killed over half a million people in America.America’s opioid epidemic has killed 700,000 people over the last two decades, resulting in jail time for thousands […]
2021 SXSW Film Festival Review – We Are the Thousand
We Are the Thousand, 2021.Directed by Anita Rivaroli.SYNOPSIS:A thousand musicians gathered together with one mission – to get the Foo Fighters to perform in their small town.While there will certainly be more immediately “worthy” causes to get the documentary feature treatment in 2021, there’s also a lot to be said for films which portray the […]
2021 SXSW Film Festival Review – Paul Dood’s Deadly Lunch Break
Paul Dood’s Deadly Lunch Break, 2021.Co-written and directed by Nick Gillespie. Starring Tom Meeten, Katherine Parkinson, Kris Marshall, Alice Lowe, Mandeep Dhillon, Johnny Vegas, Steve Oram, Craig Parkinson, Kevin Bishop, and Pippa Haywood.SYNOPSIS:A weedy charity-shop worker is set on winning the big national talent show. But when the actions of five selfish people cause him […]
2021 SXSW Film Festival Review – The Hunt for Planet B
The Hunt for Planet B, 2021.Directed by Nathaniel Kahn.SYNOPSIS:Taking us behind the scenes with NASA’s high-stakes James Webb Space Telescope, The Hunt for Planet B follows a pioneering group of scientists – many of them women – on their quest to find another Earth among the stars.The possibility of extraterrestrial life has fascinated scientists and […]
2021 SXSW Film Festival Review – The Feast
The Feast, 2021.Directed by Lee-Haven Jones. Starring Anne Elwy, Nia Roberts, Julian Lewis Jones, Steffan Cennydd, Sion Alun Davies, Lisa Palfrey, and Rhodri Meilir.SYNOPSIS:Over an evening a wealthy family gathers for a sumptuous dinner with guests in their ostentatious house in the Welsh mountains. Served by a mysteriously disturbing young woman, the assembled party do […]
2021 SXSW Film Festival Review – Alien on Stage
Alien on Stage, 2020.Directed by Lucy Harvey and Danielle Kummer.SYNOPSIS:British bus drivers’ amateur stage show of Ridley Scott’s Alien accidentally makes it to a famous London theatre! With awkward acting and special effects requiring more luck than judgement, will their homemade homage be alright on the night?In a cinematic landscape that seems ever-increasingly reliant on milking […]
2021 SXSW Film Festival Review – Witch Hunt
Witch Hunt, 2021.Written and directed by Elle Callahan. Starring Gideon Adlon, Elizabeth Mitchell, Abigail Cowen, Nicholas and Cameron Crovetti, and Christian Camargo.SYNOPSIS:In a modern America where witches are real and witchcraft is illegal, a sheltered teenager must face her own demons and prejudices as she helps two young witches avoid law enforcement and cross the southern […]
2021 SXSW Film Festival Review – Demi Lovato: Dancing with the Devil
Shaun Munro reviews the SXSW premiere of YouTube’s documentary series Demi Lovato: Dancing with the Devil…On July 24th, 2018, singer Demi Lovato’s life was turned upside down when she was rushed to hospital following a near-fatal overdose of opioids and fentanyl. This four-part docu-series – effectively a 100-minute film chunked into four parts, set to […]
2021 SXSW Film Festival Review – Offseason
Offseason, 2021.Written and directed by Mickey Keating. Starring Joe Swanberg, Jocelin Donahue, Melora Walters, Richard Brake, and Jeremy Gardner.SYNOPSIS:After receiving a mysterious letter, a woman travels to a desolate island town and soon becomes trapped in a nightmare.Are there any films more frustrating to watch – let alone review – than superbly shot, terrifically acted ones […]
2021 SXSW Film Festival Review – United States vs. Reality Winner
United States vs. Reality Winner, 2021.Directed by Sonia Kennebeck.SYNOPSIS:A state of secrets and a ruthless hunt for whistleblowers – this is the story of 25-year-old Reality Winner, who disclosed a document about Russian election interference to the media and became the number one leak target of the Trump administration.Sonia Kennebeck’s (National Bird, Enemies of the […]
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