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 in her new film […]
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 that theory to the […]
Movie Review – Still The Water (2021)
Still The Water, 2021Written 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 about a man returning […]
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.Well, […]
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 culture.Filmmaker Rodney Ascher […]
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 with their lives, but […]
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 essential or bombastic himself, […]
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 and the Black Hole […]
Ethan Hawke reuniting with Sinister director Scott Derrickson on Blumhouse’s The Black Phone
Blumhouse has announced that Ethan Hawke is set to reunite with Sinister director Scott Derrickson on The Black Phone, the upcoming adaptation of the horror short story by Joe Hill.As per THR, The Black Phone follows a “kidnapped kid who finds himself in a soundproof basement surrounded by the remains of other victims. When night […]
