Shaun Munro reviews the SXSW premiere of YouTube’s documentary series Demi Lovato: Dancing with the Devil… On July 24th, 2018, singer Demi Lovato’s life was turned upside down when she was rushed to hospital following a near-fatal overdose of opioids and fentanyl. This four-part docu-series – effectively a 100-minute film chunked into four parts, set […]
Movie Review – Happily (2021)
Happily, 2021. Written and Directed by BenDavid Grabinski. Starring Natalie Zea, Joel McHale, Shannon Woodward, Stephen Root, Kerry Bishé, Charlyne Yi, Natalie Morales, Breckin Meyer, Kirby Howell-Baptiste, Paul Scheer, Jon Daly, and Al Madrigal. SYNOPSIS: A dark romantic comedy. Tom and Janet have been happily married for years. But a visit from a mysterious stranger […]
Comic Book Review – Jim Henson’s The Storyteller: Tricksters #1
Calum Petrie reviews Jim Henson’s The Storyteller: Tricksters #1… The Storyteller series always reminds me of childhood, sitting in front of the TV and being lost in the wonderful tales being told. The comics of The Storyteller are very much the same, yet we have a lot more stories and a lot less restrictions putting […]
2021 SXSW Film Festival Review – Offseason
Offseason, 2021. Written and directed by Mickey Keating. Starring Joe Swanberg, Jocelin Donahue, Melora Walters, Richard Brake, and Jeremy Gardner. SYNOPSIS: After receiving a mysterious letter, a woman travels to a desolate island town and soon becomes trapped in a nightmare. Are there any films more frustrating to watch – let alone review – than superbly […]
2021 SXSW Film Festival Review – Ninjababy
Ninjababy, 2021. Directed by Yngvild Sve Flikke. Starring Kristine Kujath Thorp, Arthur Berning, Nader Khademi, Tora Christine Dietrichson, Silya Nymoen and Herman Tømmeraas. SYNOPSIS: An unplanned pregnancy leaves an amateur cartoonist with some tough choices to make. “Has a car. Has sperm with superpowers. Smells like butter.” No, not the contents of a Tinder bio […]
2021 SXSW Film Festival Review – United States vs. Reality Winner
United States vs. Reality Winner, 2021. Directed by Sonia Kennebeck. SYNOPSIS: A state of secrets and a ruthless hunt for whistleblowers – this is the story of 25-year-old Reality Winner, who disclosed a document about Russian election interference to the media and became the number one leak target of the Trump administration. Sonia Kennebeck’s (National […]
Movie Review – Searching For Skylab (2019)
Searching for Skylab, 2019. Directed by Dwight Steven Boniecki. Featuring Joe Kerwin, Paul Weitz, Jack Lousma, Owen Garriott, Gerald P Carr, Ed Gibson, Lubos Kohoutek, Vance Brand and Bruce Candless II. SYNOPSIS: From May to November 1973, NASA launched a series of missions which would define space travel for decades. Searching For Skylab is a […]
2021 SXSW Film Festival Review – Recovery
Recovery, 2021. Directed by Mallory Everton and Stephen Meek. Starring Whitney Call, Mallory Everton, Anne Sward Hansen, Julia Jolley, Baylee Thornock, Jessica Drolet, Stephen Meek, Tyler Andrew Jones, Noah Kershisnik, and Justin Call. SYNOPSIS: Two directionless sisters brave a cross-country road trip to rescue their grandmother from a COVID outbreak at her nursing home. The last […]
2021 SXSW Film Festival Review – Our Father
Our Father, 2021. Written and directed by Bradley Grant Smith. Starring Baize Buzan, Allison Torem, Austin Pendleton, Corey Hendrix, Tim Hopper, Ann Whitney, Keith Kupferer, Guy Massey, Lance Baker, and D’Wayne Taylor. SYNOPSIS: Two estranged sisters go in search of their uncle, a mysterious figure who may hold the key to their father’s suicide and their […]
2021 SXSW Film Festival Review – Clerk
Clerk, 2021. Directed by Malcolm Ingram. Featuring Kevin Smith. SYNOPSIS: A documentary on the career and life of filmmaker and raconteur Kevin Smith. It won’t surprise anyone to learn that this travelogue of Kevin Smith’s inimitable filmmaking career is a for-the-fans outing above all else – after all, it’s directed by Smith’s longtime friend, documentarian Malcolm […]
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