Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché, 2021.Directed by Paul Sng, and Celeste Bell. Starring Celeste Bell.SYNOPSIS:The death of punk icon and X-Ray Spex frontwoman Poly Styrene sends her daughter on a journey across the world and through her mother’s archives to reconcile their fraught relationship.From the outset it’s clear that Poly Styrene: I Am a […]
Movie Review – Shoplifters of the World (2021)
Shoplifters of the World, 2021.Written and Directed by Stephen Kijak. Starring Joe Manganiello, Ellar Coltrane, Helena Howard, Elena Kampouris, Nick Krause, James Bloor, Olivia Luccardi, Cameron Moulène, Abby Awe, Tonatiuh, Thomas Lennon, Celia Au, and Imani Lewis.SYNOPSIS:1987. Denver, Co. One crazy night in the life of four friends reeling from the sudden demise of iconic […]
Movie Review – Nobody (2021)
Nobody, 2021.Directed by Ilya Naishuller. Starring Bob Odenkirk, Christopher Lloyd, Connie Nielsen, J.P. Manoux, RZA, Michael Ironside, Colin Salmon, Billy MacLellan, Araya Mengesha, Gage Munroe, Paisley Cadorath, Aleksandr Pal, Humberly González, Edsson Morales, and Aleksey Serebryakov.SYNOPSIS:A bystander who intervenes to help a woman being harassed by a group of men becomes the target of a […]
2021 SXSW Film Festival Review – The Drover’s Wife: The Legend of Molly Johnson
The Drover’s Wife: The Legend of Molly Johnson, 2021.Written and directed by Leah Purcell. Starring Leah Purcell, Rob Collins, Sam Reid, Jessica De Gouw, and Malachi Dower-Roberts.SYNOPSIS:A lonely bushwoman struggles to raise her children and run the family farm while her husband is away.The western genre is so seemingly, inextricably intertwined with masculinity that it’s […]
American Gods Season 3 Finale Review – ‘Tears of the Wrath-Bearing Tree’
Martin Carr reviews the season 3 finale of American Gods… Seedy summit meetings attended by undesirable people of power happen every day. A gathering of individuals with opposing ideologies come together in order to gain an advantage. Agendas are cloaked, intentions diverse and wriggle room minimal. In the aftermath of Laura Moon’s assassination attempt diplomacy […]
2021 SXSW Film Festival Review – The End of Us
The End of Us, 2021.Directed by Henry Loevner and Steven Kanter. Starring Ben Coleman, Ali Vingiano, Derrick DeBlasis, Gadiel Del Orbe, Kate Peterman, Colin Weatherby, Caroline Kwan, Will Neff, Jesse Benjamin, and Claudia Restrepo.SYNOPSIS:After a savage breakup, two exes must continue living together when California issues its stay-at-home order for COVID-19. Now they’ll try to move […]
Movie Review – The Eight Hundred (2020)
The Eight Hundred, 2020.Directed by Guan Hu. Starring Huang Zhizhong, Zhang Junyi, Du Chun, Oho Ou and Tang Yixin.SYNOPSIS:In 1937, a few hundred Chinese soldiers are tasked with defending a Shanghai warehouse from invading Japanese forces.There were many strange and unusual things about 2020 but, for movie fans, one of the most noteworthy oddities was […]
2021 SXSW Film Festival Review – Through the Plexi-Glass: The Last Days of the San Jose
Through the Plexi-Glass: The Last Days of the San Jose, 2021.Directed by Liz Lambert.SYNOPSIS:Tells the story of a real estate deal’s unexpected detour – one that sparked the gentrification of Austin’s hippest neighborhood – and reveals layers of knotty, unanswerable questions, all more relevant than ever today.Can a documentary still be responsible while arguably exploiting […]
Amazon Review – Invincible
Martin Carr reviews Amazon’s new adult animated superhero series Invincible…The voice cast on this animated adaptation is outstanding. If this was live action rather than pixel and pen line drawings, some cheque books would be swung wide accommodating the cost of catering alone. Co-created by Robert Kirkman, famed for both The Walking Dead and spin-off Fear […]
2021 SXSW Film Festival Review – Luchadoras
Luchadoras, 2021.Directed by Paola Calvo and Patrick Jasim.SYNOPSIS:The courageous female wrestlers of Ciudad Juárez, a city known for its high murder rate against women – who fight in the ring and in their daily lives to redefine the image of what it means to be a woman in Mexico.While the overwhelming majority of documentaries set […]
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