Artsploitation Films has announced that it has acquired director Gem Deger’s bizarre and neon-soaked fantasy romance Playdurizm for release in North America. The English-language Czech film blends violence, romance, sex and wry comedy into a story about a young man who awakens to finds himself in an exciting but troubling new reality. Watch the trailer […]
2021 Sundance Film Festival Review – Taming the Garden
Taming the Garden, 2021. Written and directed by Salomé Jashi. SYNOPSIS: Documentary follows trees that are transported, at great expense and inconvenience, from the coast of the Republic of Georgia to the private garden of that country’s former prime minister. Documentarian Salomé Jashi captures environmental disarray in a singularly startling – if extremely methodical – manner […]
On The Count of Three: A Nihilist Dark Comedy | Sundance 2021 Video Review
On The Count of Three, 2021. Directed 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. Would you do anything for your best friend? On The Count of Three puts […]
Movie Review – Still The Water (2021)
Still The Water, 2021 Written and Directed by Susan Rodgers. Starring Ry Barrett, Colin Price, Christina McInulty, Spencer Graham, Sherri Lee-Pike, and Thane Clarke. SYNOPSIS: The men in a broken family reunite many years after a domestic tragedy drives them apart. Family trauma is at the centre of Susan Rodgers’ Still The Water, a film […]
Sundance film Jockey lands at Sony Pictures Classics ahead of its premiere
One day before its premiere during the 2021 Sundance Film Festival, Jockey has found a home with Sony Pictures Classics announcing it has acquired all worldwide rights. From director Clint Bentley, Jockey stars Clifton Collins Jr. as an aging jockey on one last run for a championship. Out of nowhere, a young jockey claiming to […]
Morbius to undergo more reshoots as Jared Leto hints at script issues
Having originally been set to arrive in July of last year, Sony Pictures’ Jared Leto-headlined Marvel movie Morbius saw itself bumped into 2021 in the wake of the pandemic, with the studio then announcing earlier this month that the film has been pushed back again and is now looking at a January 21st 2022 release. […]
2021 Sundance Film Festival Review – A Glitch in the Matrix
Glitch in the Matrix, 2020. Directed by Rodney Ascher. SYNOPSIS: Are we in fact living in a simulation? This is the question postulated, wrestled with, and ultimately argued for through archival footage, compelling interviews with real people shrouded in digital avatars, and a collection of cases from some of our most iconoclastic figures in contemporary […]
2021 Sundance Film Festival Review – Mass
Mass, 2021. Written and directed by Fran Kranz. Starring Jason Isaacs, Ann Dowd, Martha Plimpton, and Reed Birney. SYNOPSIS: Years after a tragic shooting, the parents of both the victim and the perpetrator meet face-to-face. In the wake of any tragedy, those affected scramble to make some sense of what’s happened in order to move on […]
2021 Sundance Film Festival Review – Ailey
Ailey, 2021. Directed by Jamila Wignot. SYNOPSIS: A feature-length portrait of the life and work of dancer and choreographer Alvin Ailey. “Sometimes your name becomes bigger than yourself.” A single line from Ailey sums up the enigmatic figure at the center of this new documentary. That’s not to say the iconic dancer and choreographer wasn’t […]
2021 Sundance Film Festival Review – Marvelous and the Black Hole
Marvelous and the Black Hole, 2020. Written and directed by Kate Tsang. Starring Miya Cech, Rhea Perlman, Leonardo Nam, Kannon Omachi, Paulina Lule, and Keith Powell. SYNOPSIS: A teenage delinquent teams up with a surly children’s party magician to navigate her dysfunctional family and inner demons. As a coming-of-age comedy with a quirky title, Marvelous […]
