The Map of Tiny Perfect Things, 2021.Directed by Ian Samuels. Starring Kathryn Newton, Kyle Allen, Jermaine Harris, Anna Mikami, Josh Hamilton, and Cleo Fraser.SYNOPSIS:Two teens who live the same day repeatedly, enabling them to create the titular map.Highschooler Mark (Kyle Allen) starts his day with a rhythm that is too tuned into the moment, almost […]
Movie Review – News of the World (2021)
News of the World, 2021.Directed by Paul Greengrass. Starring Tom Hanks, Helena Zengel, Tom Astor, Ray McKinnon, Mare Winningham, Elizabeth Marvel, Thomas Francis Murphy, Fred Hechinger, and Bill Camp.SYNOPSIS:A Civil War veteran agrees to deliver a girl, taken by the Kiowa people years ago, to her aunt and uncle, against her will. They travel hundreds […]
2021 Sundance Film Festival Review – Violation
Violation, 2020.Written and directed by Madeleine Sims-Fewer and Dusty Mancinelli. Starring Madeleine Sims-Fewer, Anna Maguire, Jesse LaVercombe, Obi Abili, Jasmin Geljo, and Cynthia Ashperger.SYNOPSIS:A troubled woman on the edge of divorce returns home to her younger sister after years apart. But when her sister and brother-in-law betray her trust, she embarks on a vicious crusade […]
International Film Festival Rotterdam – Friends and Strangers
Friends and Strangers, 2021.Directed by James Vaughan. Starring Fergus Wilson, Emma Diaz, Victoria Maxwell, Greg Zimbulis, David Gannon, Jayden Muir, and Poppy Jones.SYNOPSIS:Two twenty-somethings from middle class backgrounds stumble into adulthood, with little ambition despite a lack of roadblocks.There are few films with an opening quite so poignantly evocative as Mike Nichols’ 1967 masterpiece The […]
2021 Sundance Film Festival Review – Luzzu
Luzzu, 2021.Written and directed by Alex Camilleri. Starring Jesmark Scicluna, Michela Farrugia, and David Scicluna.SYNOPSIS:Jesmark, a struggling fisherman on the island of Malta, is forced to turn his back on generations of tradition and risk everything by entering the world of black market fishing to provide for his girlfriend and newborn baby.Everyone thinks they’re the […]
Movie Review – The Mauritanian (2021)
The Mauritanian, 2021.Directed by Kevin Macdonald. Starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Jodie Foster, Shailene Woodley, Tahar Rahim, Zachary Levi, Langley Kirkwood, Corey Johnson, Matthew Marsh, Sammer Usmani, David Fynn, André Jacobs, Meena Rayann, Arthur Falko, Stevel Marc, and Robert Hobbs.SYNOPSIS:Mohamedou Ould Salahi fights for freedom after being detained and imprisoned without charge by the U.S. Government for years.Despite […]
Movie Review – The Dark and the Wicked (2020)
The Dark and the Wicked, 2020.Directed by Bryan Bertino. Starring Marin Ireland, Michael Abbott Jr., Julie Oliver-Touchstone, Lynn Andrews, Tom Nowicki, and Michael Zagst.SYNOPSIS:Two siblings discover that their home has been taken over by a dark presence, as they mourn their father’s painful passing.That old phrase ‘Abandon hope all ye who enter here’ taken from […]
International Film Festival Rotterdam 2021 Review – Feast
Feast, 2021.Directed by Tom Leyendekker. Starring Trudi Klever, Eelco Smits, Koen Van Kaam, Kuno Bakker, and Vincent van der Valk.SYNOPSIS: A look at those involved with the 2007 sex parties in Groningen, during which men were assaulted and injected with HIV contaminated blood.How can pure evil be portrayed, or articulated on screen by a filmmaker? […]
Movie Review – French Exit (2021)
French Exit, 2021.Directed by Azazel Jacobs. Starring Michelle Pfeiffer, Lucas Hedges, Tracy Letts, Valerie Mahaffey, Susan Coyne, Imogen Poots, Danielle Macdonald, Isaach De Bankolé, Daniel DiTomasso, Eddie Holland, Matt Holland, Christine Lan, Robert Higden, and Larry Day.SYNOPSIS:An aging Manhattan socialite living on what’s barely left of her inheritance moves to a small apartment in Paris […]
2021 Sundance Film Festival Review – Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It
Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It, 2021.Directed by Mariem Pérez Riera. Featuring Rita Moreno.SYNOPSIS:A look at the life and work of Rita Moreno from her humble beginnings in Puerto Rico to her success on Broadway and in Hollywood.Whether you know her from West Side Story, Oz, or more recently One […]
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