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 – 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 […]
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 […]
2021 Sundance Film Festival Review – Homeroom
Homeroom, 2021.Directed by Peter Nicks.SYNOPSIS:Oakland as a tantalising case study. In a city that struggles with rising crime and health care woes, its public school systems aren’t exactly equipped to prepare youth for the travails of young adulthood.Director Peter Nicks’ (Waiting Room, The Force) observational documentary Homeroom affords a group of youngsters the luxury they’ve been so […]
Marvel’s WandaVision – Episode 4 Review
Martin Carr reviews the fourth episode of Marvel’s WandaVision…We are not in Kansas anymore, as Marvel goes full Cinematic Universe with added Easter eggs. Using flashback to tie things together, WandaVision broadens the narrative canvas, introduces new chess pieces into play and goes more than a little meta. Links are forged to entries in the […]
2021 Sundance Film Festival Review – Human Factors
Human Factors, 2021.Written and directed by Ronny Trocker. Starring Sabine Timoteo, Mark Waschke, Jule Hermann, Wanja Valentin Kube, Hannes Perkmann, and Daniel Séjourné.SYNOPSIS:A mysterious home invasion triggers a shake in the core of a cosmopolitan middle-class family and unveils the fragility of truth and the power of individual perspective.Middle-class malaise is firmly well-trod cinematic subject […]
2021 Sundance Film Festival Review – CODA
CODA, 2021.Directed by Sian Heder. Starring Emilia Jones, Marlee Matlin, Troy Kotsur, Daniel Durant, Ferdia Walsh-Peelo, and Eugenio Derbez.SYNOPSIS:A hearing child in a deaf family finds herself torn between pursuing her love of music and her family’s reliance on her to be their connection to the outside world.Sitting down for my first Sundance, I expected […]
2021 Sundance Film Festival Review – In the Same Breath
In the Same Breath, 2021.Directed by Nanfu Wang.SYNOPSIS:How did the Chinese government turn pandemic cover ups in Wuhan into a triumph for the Communist party?If documentaries about ongoing subjects have a tendency to age poorly, that’s unlikely to hold true for Nanfu Wang’s (One Child Nation) monumental deep-dive into the beginnings of the COVID-19 pandemic in […]
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