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 Fire scooped both the Audience […]
2021 Sundance Film Festival Review – All Light, Everywhere
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 Anthony (Rat Film), and […]
Movie Review – The Map of Tiny Perfect Things (2021)
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 into the moment, almost […]
Movie Review – News of the World (2021)
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. They travel hundreds […]
2021 Sundance Film Festival Review – Violation
Violation, 2020.Written and directed by Madeleine Sims-Fewer and Dusty Mancinelli. Starring Madeleine Sims-Fewer, Anna Maguire, Jesse LaVercombe, Obi Abili, Jasmin Geljo, and Cynthia Ashperger.SYNOPSIS:A troubled woman on the edge of divorce returns home to her younger sister after years apart. But when her sister and brother-in-law betray her trust, she embarks on a vicious crusade […]
2021 Sundance Film Festival Review – Luzzu
Luzzu, 2021.Written and directed by Alex Camilleri. Starring Jesmark Scicluna, Michela Farrugia, and David Scicluna.SYNOPSIS:Jesmark, a struggling fisherman on the island of Malta, is forced to turn his back on generations of tradition and risk everything by entering the world of black market fishing to provide for his girlfriend and newborn baby.Everyone thinks they’re the […]
International Film Festival Rotterdam – Friends and Strangers
Friends and Strangers, 2021.Directed by James Vaughan. Starring Fergus Wilson, Emma Diaz, Victoria Maxwell, Greg Zimbulis, David Gannon, Jayden Muir, and Poppy Jones.SYNOPSIS:Two twenty-somethings from middle class backgrounds stumble into adulthood, with little ambition despite a lack of roadblocks.There are few films with an opening quite so poignantly evocative as Mike Nichols’ 1967 masterpiece The […]
Movie Review – The Mauritanian (2021)
The Mauritanian, 2021.Directed by Kevin Macdonald. Starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Jodie Foster, Shailene Woodley, Tahar Rahim, Zachary Levi, Langley Kirkwood, Corey Johnson, Matthew Marsh, Sammer Usmani, David Fynn, André Jacobs, Meena Rayann, Arthur Falko, Stevel Marc, and Robert Hobbs.SYNOPSIS:Mohamedou Ould Salahi fights for freedom after being detained and imprisoned without charge by the U.S. Government for years.Despite […]
International Film Festival Rotterdam 2021 Review – Feast
Feast, 2021.Directed by Tom Leyendekker. Starring Trudi Klever, Eelco Smits, Koen Van Kaam, Kuno Bakker, and Vincent van der Valk.SYNOPSIS: A look at those involved with the 2007 sex parties in Groningen, during which men were assaulted and injected with HIV contaminated blood.How can pure evil be portrayed, or articulated on screen by a filmmaker? […]
International Film Festival Rotterdam 2021 Review – Shorta
Shorta, 2020.Directed by Anders Ølholm and Frederik Louis Hviid. Starring Jacob Lohmann, Simon Sears, Tarek Zayat, and Özlem Saglanmak.SYNOPSIS:Two policemen become trapped and fight to escape a dangerous distract when violence erupts, following the death of a criminal in custody.In the last year, the world has seen the death of George Floyd trigger protests against […]
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