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 – 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 […]
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 first Sundance, I expected […]
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 began […]
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 that […]
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 DeAngelis, […]
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 the COVID-19 pandemic in […]
Barb & Star Go to Vista Del Mar gets a new trailer and poster
With just two weeks to go until the release of Barb & Star Go to Vista Del Mar, we’ve got another trailer for the upcoming comedy which stars Kristen Wiig and Annie Mumolo as Barb and Star, two best friends wgi leave their small Midwestern town for the first time to go on the adventure […]
2021 Sundance Film Festival Review – One for the Road
One for the Road, 2021.Co-written and directed by Baz Poonpiriya. Starring Tor Thanapob, Ice Natara, Violette Wautier, Aokbab Chutimon, Ploi Horwang, and Noon Siraphun.SYNOPSIS:Boss, a high-end club owner living in New York, receives a call from his friend in Thailand, Aood, revealing he is in the last stages of terminal cancer.Director Baz Poonpiriya (Countdown, Bad Genius) […]
Black Panther’s Michael B. Jordan on potential Killmonger return and losing Chadwick Boseman
Alongside Thanos, Michael B. Jordan’s Black Panther villain Killmonger is the MCU’s most complex bad guy, and while speaking to People Magazine about his involvement with the International WELL Building Institute, the Creed and Fruitvale Station star spoke of his pain at losing his co-star Chadwick Boseman, and how he hopes his return to the […]
