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Movie Review – Promising Young Woman (2020)

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Promising Young Woman, 2020. Directed by Emerald Fennell. Starring Adam Brody, Ray Nicholson, Sam Richardson, Carey Mulligan, Timothy E Goodwin, Clancy Brown, Jennifer Coolidge, Laverne Cox, Ali Hart, Bo Burnham, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Alison Brie and Alfred Molina. SYNOPSIS: Cassie (Carey Mulligan) is turning thirty, perpetually single and out every night. Masking her grief through casual encounters and late-night liaisons, […]

Movie Review – The Mad Hatter (2021)

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The Mad Hatter, 2021. Directed by Cate Devaney. Starring Armando Gutierrez, Nick Miller, Samuel Caleb Walker, Michael Berryman, Isadora Cruz, Dennis Mallen, and Rachel Brunner. SYNOPSIS: Henry, and three of his classmates, encounter mind-bending ghostly terror when they volunteer for a weekend study with their psychology professor in the haunted ‘Mad Hatter’ mansion. No, The […]

Movie Review – Dead Pigs (2018)

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Dead Pigs, 2018. Directed by Cathy Yan. Starring Vivian Wu, Haoyu Yang, Mason Lee, Meng Li, David Rysdahl and Zazie Beetz. SYNOPSIS: As thousands of pig corpses float through the waterways of Shanghai, multiple characters struggle with the changing face of China. In March 2013, Chinese media noted that thousands of pig corpses had been […]

Movie Review – Tazmanian Devil (2021)

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Tazmanian Devil, 2021. Written and Directed by Solomon Onita Jr. Starring Abraham Attah, Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine, Adepero Oduye, Kwesi Boakye, Billie D. Merritt, Kenneisha Thompson, Aaron Spivey-Sorrells, Lynn Andrews III, and Kyle Gardner. SYNOPSIS: After moving to the United States, Nigerian immigrant Dayo (Attah) struggles to find a balance between his desire to join […]

2021 Sundance Film Festival Review – Ma Belle, My Beauty

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Ma Belle, My Beauty, 2021. Written and directed by Marion Hill. Starring Idella Johnson, Hannah Pepper, Lucien Guignard, and Sivan Noam Shimon. SYNOPSIS: A surprise reunion in the South of France reignites passions and jealousies between two women who were formerly polyamorous lovers. Polyamory is an oddly circumscribed subject in cinema, largely unexplored even by […]

Movie Review – Little Fish (2020)

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Little Fish, 2020. Directed by Chad Hartigan. Starring Olivia Cooke, Jack O’Connell, Soko, Raul Castillo and David Lennon. SYNOPSIS: Emma (Olivia Cooke) and Jude (Jack O’Connell) are in love. Little Fish charts their relationship and speculates on the importance of memory in keeping them together. Little Fish is a film created in flashback and grounded by two […]

2021 Sundance Film Festival Review – Writing with Fire

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Writing with Fire, 2021. Directed by Rintu Thomas and Sushmit Ghosh. SYNOPSIS: In a cluttered news landscape dominated by men emerges India’s only newspaper run by Dalit women. Chief reporter Meera and her journalists break traditions, redefining what it means to be powerful. A piece of documentary filmmaking as necessarily courageous as its incredible subjects, Writing with […]

2021 Sundance Film Festival Review – All Light, Everywhere

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All Light, Everywhere, 2021. Directed by Theo Anthony. SYNOPSIS: A far-ranging look at the biases in how we see things, focusing on the use of police body cameras. Probably the only film in Sundance history to begin with a shot of the director’s own eyeball, All Light, Everywhere is the latest project from acclaimed video essayist Theo […]

Movie Review – The Map of Tiny Perfect Things (2021)

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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 […]

Movie Review – News of the World (2021)

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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. […]