Mother Schmuckers, 2021.Written and directed by Lenny Guit and Harpo Guit. Starring Harpo Guit, Maxi Delmelle, Claire Bodson, Mathieu Amalric, and Habib Ben Tanfous.SYNOPSIS:Issachar and Zabulon, two brothers in their twenties, are supremely stupid and never bored, as madness is part of their daily lives. When they lose their mother’s beloved dog, they have 24 hours […]
2021 Sundance Film Festival Review – On the Count of Three
On the Count of Three, 2021.Directed by Jerrod Carmichael. Starring Jerrod Carmichael, Christopher Abbott, Tiffany Haddish, J.B. Smoove, Lavell Crawford, and Henry Winkler.SYNOPSIS:Two guns. Two best friends. And a pact to end their lives when the day is done.In one of this film’s most memorable scenes, Christopher Abbott’s suicidal Kevin asks his similarly-done-with-life friend Val (Jerrod […]
2021 Sundance Film Festival Review – How It Ends
How It Ends, 2021.Written and directed by Daryl Wein and Zoe Lister-Jones. Starring Zoe Lister-Jones, Cailee Spaeny, Olivia Wilde, Fred Armisen, Helen Hunt, and Lamorne Morris.SYNOPSIS:On the last day on Earth, one woman goes on a journey through L.A. to make it to her last party before the world ends, running into an eclectic cast of […]
2021 Sundance Film Festival Review – In the Earth
In the Earth, 2021.Directed by Ben Wheatley. Starring Joel Fry, Ellora Torchia, Hayley Squires, and Reece Shearsmith.SYNOPSIS:As the world searches for a cure to a disastrous virus, a scientist and park scout venture deep into the forest for a routine equipment run.Ben Wheatley is a filmmaker whose prodigious talents are matched only by the infuriating inconsistency […]
2021 Sundance Film Festival Review – Playing with Sharks
Playing with Sharks, 2021.Written and Directed by Sally Aitken. Featuring Valerie Taylor.SYNOPSIS:Valerie Taylor is a shark fanatic and an Australian icon – a marine maverick who forged her way as a fearless diver, cinematographer and conservationist. She filmed the real sharks for Jaws and famously wore a chainmail suit, using herself as shark bait, changing our […]
2021 Sundance Film Festival Review – The Most Beautiful Boy in the World
The Most Beautiful Boy in the World, 2021.Directed by Kristina Lindström and Kristian Petri. Featuring Björn Andrésen.SYNOPSIS:In 1971, at the world premiere of Death in Venice, Italian director Lucino Visconti proclaims his Tadzio as “the world’s most beautiful boy.” A shadow that today, 50 years later, weighs on Björn Andresen’s life.If Alex Winter’s recent documentary Showbiz Kids felt […]
2021 Sundance Film Festival Review – Cryptozoo
Cryptozoo, 2021.Written and directed by Dash Shaw. Starring Lake Bell, Michael Cera, Angeliki Papoulia, Zoe Kazan, Peter Stormare, Grace Zabriskie, Louisa Krause, and Thomas Jay Ryan.SYNOPSIS:Cryptozookeepers try to capture a baku, a dream-eating hybrid creature of legend, and start wondering if they should display these beasts or keep them hidden and unknown.Cryptozoo is the weirdest fucking […]
2021 Sundance Film Festival Review – Homeroom
Homeroom, 2021.Directed by Peter Nicks.SYNOPSIS:Oakland as a tantalising case study. In a city that struggles with rising crime and health care woes, its public school systems aren’t exactly equipped to prepare youth for the travails of young adulthood.Director Peter Nicks’ (Waiting Room, The Force) observational documentary Homeroom affords a group of youngsters the luxury they’ve been so […]
2021 Sundance Film Festival Review – Censor
Censor, 2021.Co-written and directed by Prano Bailey-Bond. Starring Niamh Algar, Nicholas Burns, Vincent Franklin, Sophia La Porta, Adrian Schiller, and Michael Smiley.SYNOPSIS:After viewing a strangely familiar video nasty, Enid, a film censor, sets out to solve the past mystery of her sister’s disappearance, embarking on a quest that dissolves the line between fiction and reality.Whether or […]
2021 Sundance Film Festival Review – Human Factors
Human Factors, 2021.Written and directed by Ronny Trocker. Starring Sabine Timoteo, Mark Waschke, Jule Hermann, Wanja Valentin Kube, Hannes Perkmann, and Daniel Séjourné.SYNOPSIS:A mysterious home invasion triggers a shake in the core of a cosmopolitan middle-class family and unveils the fragility of truth and the power of individual perspective.Middle-class malaise is firmly well-trod cinematic subject […]
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