Sabaya, 2021.Written and directed by Hogir Hirori.SYNOPSIS:With just a mobile phone and a gun, Mahmud, Ziyad, and their group risk their lives trying to save Yazidi women and girls being held by ISIS as Sabaya (abducted sex slaves) in the most dangerous camp in the Middle East, Al-Hol in Syria.Hogir Hirori (The Deminer) returns with another […]
2021 Sundance Film Festival Review – Mother Schmuckers
Mother Schmuckers, 2021.Written and directed by Lenny Guit and Harpo Guit. Starring Harpo Guit, Maxi Delmelle, Claire Bodson, Mathieu Amalric, and Habib Ben Tanfous.SYNOPSIS:Issachar and Zabulon, two brothers in their twenties, are supremely stupid and never bored, as madness is part of their daily lives. When they lose their mother’s beloved dog, they have 24 hours […]
2021 Sundance Film Festival Review – On the Count of Three
On the Count of Three, 2021.Directed by Jerrod Carmichael. Starring Jerrod Carmichael, Christopher Abbott, Tiffany Haddish, J.B. Smoove, Lavell Crawford, and Henry Winkler.SYNOPSIS:Two guns. Two best friends. And a pact to end their lives when the day is done.In one of this film’s most memorable scenes, Christopher Abbott’s suicidal Kevin asks his similarly-done-with-life friend Val (Jerrod […]
2021 Sundance Film Festival Review – How It Ends
How It Ends, 2021.Written and directed by Daryl Wein and Zoe Lister-Jones. Starring Zoe Lister-Jones, Cailee Spaeny, Olivia Wilde, Fred Armisen, Helen Hunt, and Lamorne Morris.SYNOPSIS:On the last day on Earth, one woman goes on a journey through L.A. to make it to her last party before the world ends, running into an eclectic cast of […]
2021 Sundance Film Festival Review – In the Earth
In the Earth, 2021.Directed by Ben Wheatley. Starring Joel Fry, Ellora Torchia, Hayley Squires, and Reece Shearsmith.SYNOPSIS:As the world searches for a cure to a disastrous virus, a scientist and park scout venture deep into the forest for a routine equipment run.Ben Wheatley is a filmmaker whose prodigious talents are matched only by the infuriating inconsistency […]
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, Norman Lear, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Justina Machado, Whoopi Goldberg, Gloria Estefan, and Morgan Freeman.SYNOPSIS: The film follows Rita Moreno, focusing on her early life and career.There are few living Hollywood legends quite like Rita Moreno. And you don’t […]
2021 Sundance Film Festival Review – Playing with Sharks
Playing with Sharks, 2021.Written and Directed by Sally Aitken. Featuring Valerie Taylor.SYNOPSIS:Valerie Taylor is a shark fanatic and an Australian icon – a marine maverick who forged her way as a fearless diver, cinematographer and conservationist. She filmed the real sharks for Jaws and famously wore a chainmail suit, using herself as shark bait, changing our […]
Censor Never Reaches Its Full Horror Potential | Sundance 2021 Video Review
Censor, 2021.Directed by Prano Bailey-Bond. Starring Niamh Algar, Nicholas Burns, Vincent Franklin, Sophia La Porta, Adrian Schiller, Michael Smiley, Clare Holman, Andrew Havill, Felicity Montagu, Danny Lee Wynter, Clare Perkins, Guillaume Delaunay, Richard Glover, Beau Gadsdon, Amelie Child-Villiers.You may call me a bit sick for this, but I expected more “nasty” out of this video […]
2021 Sundance Film Festival Review – The Most Beautiful Boy in the World
The Most Beautiful Boy in the World, 2021.Directed by Kristina Lindström and Kristian Petri. Featuring Björn Andrésen.SYNOPSIS:In 1971, at the world premiere of Death in Venice, Italian director Lucino Visconti proclaims his Tadzio as “the world’s most beautiful boy.” A shadow that today, 50 years later, weighs on Björn Andresen’s life.If Alex Winter’s recent documentary Showbiz Kids felt […]
2021 Sundance Film Festival Review – Cryptozoo
Cryptozoo, 2021.Written and directed by Dash Shaw. Starring Lake Bell, Michael Cera, Angeliki Papoulia, Zoe Kazan, Peter Stormare, Grace Zabriskie, Louisa Krause, and Thomas Jay Ryan.SYNOPSIS:Cryptozookeepers try to capture a baku, a dream-eating hybrid creature of legend, and start wondering if they should display these beasts or keep them hidden and unknown.Cryptozoo is the weirdest fucking […]
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