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 […]
Donnie Darko director says James Cameron inspired him to develop a sequel
Richard Kelly, the director of Donnie Darko, says his inspiration for writing a follow up was the encouragement of James Cameron. When James Cameron tells you to do something, you do it, especially when it comes to filmmaking. The iconic director of Titanic, Terminator, Avatar and more, knows what he’s doing. Donnie Darko director Richard […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
2021 Sundance Film Festival Review – CODA
CODA, 2021. Directed by Sian Heder. Starring Emilia Jones, Marlee Matlin, Troy Kotsur, Daniel Durant, Ferdia Walsh-Peelo, and Eugenio Derbez. SYNOPSIS: A hearing child in a deaf family finds herself torn between pursuing her love of music and her family’s reliance on her to be their connection to the outside world. Sitting down for my […]
Zack Snyder’s Justice League gets March premiere, new poster and synopsis
After years of online campaigns and working on his cut since HBO Max first announced its release on the streaming service, Zack Snyder has announced the official release date for Zack Snyder’s Justice League, the long awaited Snyder Cut of the 2017 film Justice League, with the film set to premiere on March 18th, 2021. Zack Snyder […]
George Clooney returning to space for Legendary’s Buck Rogers series
Having been thrown around the stars in Gravity and stared up at them with a giant beard in The Midnight Sky, it appears that George Clooney’s affinity with space is set to continue, with the announcement that he could be journeying to the 25th Century for Legendary’s Buck Rogers series. The Hollywood Reporter has said […]
Timothée Chalamet reuniting with Luca Guadagnino for Bones & All
While Timothée Chalamet’s latest films The French Dispatch and Dune are stuck in a pandemic related holding pattern, it appears that he’s lining up a reunion with his Call Me By Your Name director Luca Guadagnino for his next project. According to Deadline, Guadagnino is adapting Bones & All, a coming-of-age horror-romance written by Camille […]
2021 Sundance Film Festival Review – In the Same Breath
In the Same Breath, 2021. Directed by Nanfu Wang. SYNOPSIS: How did the Chinese government turn pandemic cover ups in Wuhan into a triumph for the Communist party? If documentaries about ongoing subjects have a tendency to age poorly, that’s unlikely to hold true for Nanfu Wang’s (One Child Nation) monumental deep-dive into the beginnings of […]
