Thinestra, 2025. Directed by Nathan Hertz. Starring Melissa Macedo, Michelle Macedo, Mary Beth Barone, Annie Ngosi Ilonzeh, and Brian Huskey. SYNOPSIS: A young woman takes a slimming aid, and the weight she loses returns as a destructive doppelganger. At a time when everyone seems to be judged on how they look rather than how they […]
Raindance Film Festival 2025 Review – Dream!
Dream!, 2025. Directed by Paul Spurrier. Starring Amata Masmalai, Vithaya Pansringarm, Chomphupak Poonpol, Adam Kaokept, and Sahajak Boonthanakit SYNOPSIS: A newly orphaned youngter sets out on a lone quest to find a new home and family. Her journey takes her on many adventures across Thailand. There are undoubtedly many questions I never thought I’d […]
Raindance Film Festival 2025 Review – Heavyweight
Heavyweight, 2025. Directed by Christopher M. Anthony. Starring Jordan Bolger, Nicholas Pinnock, Jason Isaacs, Sienna Guillory, Osy Ikhile, and Blake Harrison. SYNOPSIS: A boxing coach prepares an underdog for a career-defining boxing championship match, as their world starts to collapse under the pressure. This nerve-racking film feels a bit like going the distance in a […]
2025 SXSW London Film Festival Review – Winter in Sokcho
Winter in Sokcho, 2024. Directed by Koya Kamura. Starring Bella Kim, Roschdy Zem, Mi-hyeon Park, Tae-ho Ryu, Doyu Gong, Kyung-soon Jung. SYNOPSIS: A young Korean girl’s life takes an unexpected turn when a French artist visits her country, disrupting her routine. Elisa Shua Dusapin’s novel Winter in Sokcho was a big hit in France on […]
2025 SXSW London Film Festival Review – The Flamenco Guitar of Yerai Cortés
The Flamenco Guitar of Yerai Cortés, 2024. Directed by Antón Álvarez. SYNOPSIS: La guitarra flamenca de Yerai Cortés is a story that combines the power of music with the weight of a family secret that must come to light. Starring Yerai Cortés himself, the plot explores themes of passion, love and forgiveness as the protagonist […]
Chicago Critics Film Festival 2025 Review – A Little Prayer
A Little Prayer, 2025. Written and Directed by Angus MacLachlan. Starring Jane Levy, David Strathairn, Dascha Polanco, Celia Weston, Steve Coulter, Keisha Tillis, Will Pullen, Billie Roy, Ashley Shelton, David Price, Amy Marie Murphy, Justin Paitsel, Rita Glynn, Jeffrey Dean Foster, and Anna Camp. SYNOPSIS: A man tries to protect his daughter-in-law when he finds […]
Chicago Critics Film Festival 2025 Review – Lurker
Lurker, 2025. Written and Directed by Alex Russell. Starring Théodore Pellerin, Archie Madekwe, Havana Rose Liu, Sunny Suljic, Daniel Zolghadri, Zack Fox, Cam Hicks, Chaize Macklin, Brian Niles, Sean Wang, Myra Turley, Jonas Gindin, Hannah Christine Shetler, Mikaela Poon, Willa Shaw, and Rene Leech. SYNOPSIS: A retail employee infiltrates the inner circle of an artist […]
Glasgow Film Festival 2025 Review – Andrea Gets a Divorce
Andrea Gets a Divorce, 2024. Directed by Josef Hader. Starring Birgit Minichmayr, Josef Hader, Thomas Schubert, and Robert Stadlober. SYNOPSIS: A policewoman wants a divorce and city job promotion but after hitting her drunk husband with her car in an accidental collision, she flees the scene, committing a hit-and-run. Films about divorce can often be […]
Glasgow Film Festival 2025 Review – On Falling
On Falling, 2024. Written and directed by Laura Carreira. Starring Joana Santos, Inês Vaz, and Neil Leiper. SYNOPSIS: The story focuses on Aurora, a Portuguese worker in a Scottish warehouse, navigating loneliness and alienation in an algorithm-driven gig economy as she seeks meaning and connection amidst solitude and workplace confines. We’re so used to takes […]
2025 Sundance International Film Festival Review – Plainclothes
Plainclothes, 2025. Written and Directed by Carmen Emmi. Starring Tom Blyth, Russell Tovey, Amy Forsyth, Maria Dizzia, Christian Cooke, Gabe Fazio, John Bedford Lloyd, Alessandra Ford Balazs, and Sam Asa Brownstein. SYNOPSIS: A promising undercover agent assigned to lure and arrest gay men defies professional orders when he falls in love with a target. Writer/director […]
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