Searching for Skylab, 2019.Directed by Dwight Steven Boniecki. Featuring Joe Kerwin, Paul Weitz, Jack Lousma, Owen Garriott, Gerald P Carr, Ed Gibson, Lubos Kohoutek, Vance Brand and Bruce Candless II.SYNOPSIS:From May to November 1973, NASA launched a series of missions which would define space travel for decades. Searching For Skylab is a look back on […]
2021 SXSW Film Festival Review – Recovery
Recovery, 2021.Directed by Mallory Everton and Stephen Meek. Starring Whitney Call, Mallory Everton, Anne Sward Hansen, Julia Jolley, Baylee Thornock, Jessica Drolet, Stephen Meek, Tyler Andrew Jones, Noah Kershisnik, and Justin Call.SYNOPSIS:Two directionless sisters brave a cross-country road trip to rescue their grandmother from a COVID outbreak at her nursing home.The last year-or-so has seen countless […]
2021 SXSW Film Festival Review – Our Father
Our Father, 2021.Written and directed by Bradley Grant Smith. Starring Baize Buzan, Allison Torem, Austin Pendleton, Corey Hendrix, Tim Hopper, Ann Whitney, Keith Kupferer, Guy Massey, Lance Baker, and D’Wayne Taylor.SYNOPSIS:Two estranged sisters go in search of their uncle, a mysterious figure who may hold the key to their father’s suicide and their family’s unhappiness.Bradley Grant […]
2021 SXSW Film Festival Review – Clerk
Clerk, 2021.Directed by Malcolm Ingram. Featuring Kevin Smith.SYNOPSIS:A documentary on the career and life of filmmaker and raconteur Kevin Smith.It won’t surprise anyone to learn that this travelogue of Kevin Smith’s inimitable filmmaking career is a for-the-fans outing above all else – after all, it’s directed by Smith’s longtime friend, documentarian Malcolm Ingram. And though it […]
2021 SXSW Film Festival Review – WeWork: Or the Making and Breaking of a $47 Billion Unicorn
WeWork: Or the Making and Breaking of a $47 Billion Unicorn, 2021.Directed by Jed Rothstein.SYNOPSIS:Explores the rise and fall of one of the biggest corporate flameouts and venture capitalist bubbles in recent years – the story of WeWork, and its hippie-messianic leader Adam Neumann.The latest documentary from Oscar-nominated filmmaker Jed Rothstein (Killing in the Name) […]
Movie Review – Retaliation (2017)
Retaliation, 2017.Directed by Ludwig Shammasian and Paul Shammasian. Starring Orlando Bloom, Janet Montgomery, Anne Reid, James Smillie, Charlie Creed-Miles and Alex Ferns.SYNOPSIS:Decades after he was molested by a Catholic priest, a man deals with his abuser’s return as he is tasked with demolishing the church where the crimes took place.Over the last year, dozens of […]
2021 SXSW Film Festival Review – Not Going Quietly
Not Going Quietly, 2021.Directed by Nicholas Bruckman.SYNOPSIS:An intimate, inspiring look at activist and loving father Ady Barkan, diagnosed with ALS at age 32 and who, in spite of declining physical abilities, embarks on a nationwide campaign for healthcare reform.It’s no secret to anyone with their eyes open that the American healthcare system continues to be one […]
Video Game Review – Planet Coaster: Console Edition – Vintage & World’s Fair Bundle
Calum Petrie reviews Planet Coaster: Console Edition – Vintage & World’s Fair Bundle…Planet Coaster first came onto the scene back in 2016, and I am ashamed to say that I unfortunately had not played it until recently. The fact that the game is on Xbox Game Pass made it extremely fortunate that I could just […]
2021 SXSW Film Festival Review – Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror
Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror, 2021.Directed by Kier-La Janisse.SYNOPSIS:Woodlands Dark Days and Days Bewitched is the first feature-length documentary on the history of folk horror, from the 1960s to today.There are few major film genres, if any, as stratified as horror, such that even the most diffuse of subgenres can […]
Movie Review – On-Gaku: Our Sound (2019)
On-Gaku: Our Sound, 2019.Directed by Kenji Iwaisawa. Featuring the voice talents of Shintarô Sakamoto, Ren Komai, Tomoya Maeno, Tateto Serizawa, Kami Hiraiwa and Naoto Takenaka.SYNOPSIS:A crew of unpopular high school kids decides to start a band.On-Gaku: Our Sound is an indie animated movie which follows three underachieving friends. Taking place in Japan, in a non-descriptive […]
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