Dune. 2021 Directed by Denis Villeneuve Starring Timothée Chalamet, Rebecca Ferguson, Oscar Isaac, Zendaya, Jason Momoa, Stellan Skarsgård, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Josh Brolin, Javier Bardem, Sharon Duncan-Brewster, Chang Chen, Dave Bautista, David Dastmalchian, Charlotte Rampling, Babs Olusanmokun, and Benjamin Clémentine SYNOPSIS: Feature adaptation of Frank Herbert’s science fiction novel, about the son of a noble […]
57th Chicago International Film Festival Capsule Review – Cow
Cow, 2021. Directed by Andrea Arnold. SYNOPSIS: A close-up portrait of the daily lives of two cows. One of the first of many prolonged shots in Andrea Arnold’s Cow (making her documentary debut, most known for incredible directorial efforts such as Fish Tank and American Honey) stays on a female cow that has just given […]
Movie Review – Hard Luck Love Song (2021)
Hard Luck Love Song, 2021. Directed by Justin Corsbie. Starring Michael Dorman, Sophia Bush, RZA, Dermot Mulroney, Eric Roberts, and Brian Sacca. SYNOPSIS: A gritty love story about a charismatic but down-on-his-luck troubadour living out of cheap motels and making bad decisions. Hard Luck Love Song opens up on Michael Dorman’s, a bloodied and beaten […]
Movie Review – Needle in a Timestack (2021)
Needle in a Timestack, 2021. Directed by John Ridley. Starring Leslie Odom Jr., Cynthia Erivo, Freida Pinto, Orlando Bloom, Laysla De Oliveira, Alessandro Juliani, James Kirk, Hiro Kanagawa, Ulka Simone Mohanty, Gourav Shah, Kaylah Zander, Elizabeth Weinstein, Natalie D’Amico, Charles Singh, Samantha Hum, and Jadyn Wong. SYNOPSIS: Nick and Janine live in marital bliss until […]
Movie Review – Freeland (2021)
Freeland, 2021. Written and Directed by Mario Furloni and Kate McLean. Starring Krisha Fairchild, Frank Mosley, Lily Gladstone, John Craven, Cameron James Matthews, and Michelle Maxson. SYNOPSIS: An aging pot farmer finds her world shattered as she races to bring in what could be her final harvest. At face value, Freeland depicts a series of […]
57th Chicago International Film Festival Capsule Review – The French Dispatch
The French Dispatch, 2021. Written and Directed by Wes Anderson. Starring Bill Murray, Benicio del Toro, Frances McDormand, Jeffrey Wright, Adrien Brody, Tilda Swinton, Owen Wilson, Timothée Chalamet, Léa Seydoux, Mathieu Amalric, Lyna Khoudri, Steve Park, Liev Schreiber, Elisabeth Moss, Edward Norton, Willem Dafoe, Lois Smith, Saoirse Ronan, Christoph Waltz, Cécile de France, Guillaume Gallienne, […]
Movie Review – Ron’s Gone Wrong (2021)
Ron’s Gone Wrong, 2021. Directed by Sarah Smith and Jean-Philippe Vine. Featuring the voice talents of Zach Galifianakis, Jack Dylan Grazer, Olivia Colman, Ed Helms, Justice Smith, Rob Delaney, Kylie Cantrall, and Ricardo Hurtado. SYNOPSIS: The story of Barney, an awkward middle-schooler, and Ron, his new walking, talking, digitally connected device. Ron’s malfunctions set against […]
Movie Review – John and the Hole (2021)
John and the Hole, 2021. Directed by Pascual Sisto. Starring Charlie Shotwell, Taissa Farmiga, Jennifer Ehle, Michael C. Hall, Lucien Spelman, Ben O’Brien, Georgia Lyman, Samantha LeBretton, and Tamara Hickey. SYNOPSIS: A coming-of-age psychological thriller that plays out the unsettling reality of a kid who holds his family captive in a hole in the ground. […]
57th Chicago International Film Festival Capsule Review – The Beta Test
The Beta Test, 2021. Directed by Jim Cummings. Starring Jim Cummings, Virginia Newcomb, PJ McCabe, Kevin Changaris, Olivia Grace Applegate, Jessie Barr, Malin Barr, Jacqueline Doke, Wilky Lau, Grant Rosenmeyer, Laura Coover, and Keith Powell. SYNOPSIS: A married Hollywood agent receives a mysterious letter for an anonymous sexual encounter and becomes ensnared in a sinister […]
57th Chicago International Film Festival Capsule Review – The Velvet Underground
The Velvet Underground. 2021 Directed by Todd Haynes. Featuring Lou Reed, John Cale, Sterling Morrison, Maureen Tucker, Nico, Andy Warhol, John Waters, Mary Woronov, Amy Taubin, Merrill Reed Weiner, and Doug Yule. SYNOPSIS: The Velvet Underground explores the multiple threads that converged to bring together one of the most influential bands in rock and roll. […]
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