Sound of Violence, 2021. Written and directed by Alex Noyer. Starring Jasmin Savoy Brown, Lili Simmons, James Jagger, and Tessa Munro. SYNOPSIS: A young girl recovers her hearing and gains synaesthetic abilities during the brutal murder of her family. Finding solace in the sounds of bodily harm, as an adult, she pursues a career in music […]
2021 SXSW Film Festival Review – Dear Mr. Brody
Dear Mr. Brody, 2021. Directed by Keith Maitland. SYNOPSIS: A psychedelic journey into the heart (and bank account) of Michael Brody, Jr., the hippie-millionaire who offered the world peace for the price of a postage stamp. The new documentary from director Keith Maitland (Tower) boasts an absolutely remarkable hook, but the initial fascination of its bizarre […]
2021 SXSW Film Festival Review – Language Lessons
Language Lessons, 2021. Co-written and directed by Natalie Morales. Starring Mark Duplass and Natalie Morales. SYNOPSIS: A Spanish teacher and her student develop an unexpected friendship. A year-plus into the COVID-19 pandemic, many if not most of us are surely fed up with films about the global predicament, whether explicitly or tangentially. But Natalie Morales’ feature […]
2021 SXSW Film Festival Review – Fruits of Labor
Fruits of Labor, 2021. Directed by Emily Cohen Ibañez. SYNOPSIS: A Mexican-American teenage farmworker dreams of graduating high school, when ICE raids in her community threaten to separate her family and force her to become her family’s breadwinner. A perilous coming-of-age documentary from director Emily Cohen Ibañez, Fruits of Labor explores the daily struggles of America’s […]
Marvel’s The Falcon and The Winter Soldier – Episode 1 Review
Martin Carr reviews the first episode of The Falcon and The Winter Soldier… After the radical departure of WandaVision, The Falcon and The Winter Soldier lands squarely in familiar Marvel territory. This opener feels like a refresher as Anthony Mackie and Sebastian Stan slip back into the action seamlessly. Aerial set pieces, high octane visuals […]
2021 SXSW Film Festival Review – The Oxy Kingpins
The Oxy Kingpins, 2021. Directed by Brendan Fitzgerald. SYNOPSIS: Covers the untold story of how a network of pharmaceutical manufacturers, distributors, and retailers worked together to orchestrate and perpetuate the opioid crisis that has killed over half a million people in America. America’s opioid epidemic has killed 700,000 people over the last two decades, resulting in […]
2021 SXSW Film Festival Review – We Are the Thousand
We Are the Thousand, 2021. Directed by Anita Rivaroli. SYNOPSIS: A thousand musicians gathered together with one mission – to get the Foo Fighters to perform in their small town. While there will certainly be more immediately “worthy” causes to get the documentary feature treatment in 2021, there’s also a lot to be said for […]
2021 SXSW Film Festival Review – Paul Dood’s Deadly Lunch Break
Paul Dood’s Deadly Lunch Break, 2021. Co-written and directed by Nick Gillespie. Starring Tom Meeten, Katherine Parkinson, Kris Marshall, Alice Lowe, Mandeep Dhillon, Johnny Vegas, Steve Oram, Craig Parkinson, Kevin Bishop, and Pippa Haywood. SYNOPSIS: A weedy charity-shop worker is set on winning the big national talent show. But when the actions of five selfish […]
TV Review – The Flight Attendant
Martin Carr reviews The Flight Attendant… This globetrotting HBO Max original is full of surprises. What starts out as something clichéd, copy book and laden with genre tropes, soon opens up and branches off in numerous directions. Featuring an understated turn from Kaley Cuoco as Cassie, a flight attendant who wakes up one morning in […]
2021 SXSW Film Festival Review – The Hunt for Planet B
The Hunt for Planet B, 2021. Directed by Nathaniel Kahn. SYNOPSIS: Taking us behind the scenes with NASA’s high-stakes James Webb Space Telescope, The Hunt for Planet B follows a pioneering group of scientists – many of them women – on their quest to find another Earth among the stars. The possibility of extraterrestrial life […]
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