Magazine Dreams, 2023.Written and directed by Elijah Bynum. Starring Jonathan Majors, Haley Bennett, Taylour Paige, Mike O’Hearn, Harrison Page, and Harriet Sansom Harris.SYNOPSIS:A Black amateur bodybuilder struggles to find human connection in this exploration of celebrity and violence.Elijah Bynum (Hot Summer Nights) turns in an assured sophomore feature; a hugely depressing but utterly transfixing drama […]
2023 Sundance Film Festival Review – Kim’s Video
Kim’s Video, 2023.Directed by David Redmon and Ashley Sabin.SYNOPSIS:Playing with the forms and tropes of various cinema genres, the filmmaker sets off on a quest to find a legendary lost video collection of 55,000 movies in Sicily.It’s hardly a startling revelation that streaming killed the rental store, but following a glut of documentaries endlessly pining […]
2023 Sundance Film Festival Review – Talk to Me
Talk to Me, 2022.Written and directed by Danny and Michael Philippou. Starring Sophie Wilde, Miranda Otto, Alexandra Jensen, Joe Bird, Otis Dhanji, and Zoe Terakes.SYNOPSIS:When a group of friends discover how to conjure spirits using an embalmed hand, they become hooked on the new thrill, until one of them goes too far and opens the […]
2023 Sundance Film Festival Review – Sometimes I Think About Dying
Sometimes I Think About Dying, 2023.Directed by Rachel Lambert. Starring Daisy Ridley, Dave Merheje, Parvesh Cheena, Marcia Debonis, Meg Stalter, and Brittany O’Grady.SYNOPSIS:Fran, who likes to think about dying, makes the new guy at work laugh, which leads to dating and more. Now the only thing standing in their way is Fran herself.Stefanie Abel Horowitz’s […]
Movie Review – Babylon (2022)
Babylon, 2022.Written and Directed by Damien Chazelle. Starring Diego Calva, Margot Robbie, Brad Pitt, Jovan Adepo, Li Jun Li, Jean Smart, Tobey Maguire, Olivia Wilde, Samara Weaving, Eric Roberts, Katherine Waterston, Flea, Max Minghella, Lukas Haas, and Spike Jonze.SYNOPSIS:A tale of outsized ambition and outrageous excess, it traces the rise and fall of multiple characters […]
Movie Review – Holy Spider (2022)
Holy Spider, 2022.Directed by Ali Abbasi. Starring Zar Amir Ebrahimi, Mehdi Bajestani, Arash Ashtiani, Forouzan Jamshidnejad, Sina Parvaneh, Nima Akbarpour, Sara Fazilat, Alice Rahimi, Ali Nazarian, Sima Seyed, Firouz Ageli, Farhad Faghih Habibi, Mesbah Taleb, Ariane Naziri, M. Ali Nazarian, and Majd Eid.SYNOPSIS:A journalist descends into the dark underbelly of the Iranian holy city of […]
Movie Review – The Menu (2022)
The Menu, 2022.Directed by Mark Mylod. Starring Ralph Fiennes, Anya Taylor-Joy, Nicholas Hoult, Hong Chau, Janet McTeer, Judith Light, John Leguizamo, Rob Yang, Mark St. Cyr, Reed Birney, Aimee Carrero, Arturo Castro, Rebecca Koon, Peter Grosz, Christina Brucato, Paul Adelstein, and Adam Aalderks.SYNOPSIS:A young couple travels to a remote island to eat at an exclusive […]
Movie Review – Emily the Criminal (2022)
Emily the Criminal. 2022Written and Directed by John Patton Ford. Starring Aubrey Plaza, Theo Rossi, Gina Gershon, Megalyn Echikunwoke, Jonathan Avigdori, Bernardo Badillo, Craig Stark, and Brandon Sklenar.SYNOPSIS:Down on her luck and saddled with debt, Emily gets involved in a credit card scam that pulls her into the criminal underworld of Los Angeles, ultimately leading […]
Movie Review – Section 8 (2022)
Section 8, 2022.Directed by Christian Sesma. Starring Ryan Kwanten, Dolph Lundgren, Dermot Mulroney, Scott Adkins, Mickey Rourke, Justin Furstenfeld, Maurice Compte, Tracy Perez, Robert LaSardo, Paul Sloan, Geoffrey Blake, Mary Christina Brown, Kimi Alexander, Brandon Burrows, Robert Laenen, Jessica Medina, Jay Montalvo, and Stephen C. Sepher.SYNOPSIS:After avenging the murder of his family, a former soldier […]
TV Review – HBO’s The Last of Us
The Last of Us. 2023Created by Neil Druckmann and Craig Mazin Starring Pedro Pascal, Bella Ramsey, Gabriel Luna, Merle Dandridge, Nick Offerman, Murray Bartlett, Anna Torv, Melanie Lynskey, Storm Reid, Nico Parker, Lamar Johnson, Keivonn Woodard, Graham Greene, Brad Leland, Jeffrey Pierce, Brendan Fletcher, Troy Baker, and Ashley JohnsonSynopsis:Joel and Ellie, a pair connected through […]
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