Boiling Point, 2021. Co-written and directed by Philip Barantini. Starring Stephen Graham, Vinette Robinson, and Jason Flemyng. SYNOPSIS: Enter the relentless pressure of a restaurant kitchen as a head chef wrangles his team on the busiest day of the year. Adapted from actor-turned-filmmaker Philip Barantini’s 2019 short film of the same name which also starred […]
2022 SXSW Film Festival Review – 32 Sounds
32 Sounds, 2022. Directed by Sam Green. SYNOPSIS: Explores the elemental phenomenon of sound and its power to bend time, cross borders, and profoundly shape our perception of the world around us. Oscar-nominated director Sam Green’s (The Weather Underground) new film 32 Sounds offers one of the most immersive documentary experiences you’re ever likely to have, […]
2022 SXSW Film Festival Review – Women Do Cry
Women Do Cry, 2021. Directed by Vesela Kazakova and Mina Mileva. Starring Maria Bakalova, Vesela Kazakova, Iossif Surchadzhiev, Diana Spasova, Bilyana Kazakova, Dobriela Popova, Rositca Gevrenova, Ralitsa Stoyanova, and Katia Kazakova. SYNOPSIS: A promising musician, Sonja, learns that she’s contracted HIV. After she drops out of the music conservatory, Sonja is helped out by her […]
2022 SXSW Film Festival Review – The Thief Collector
The Thief Collector, 2022. Directed by Allison Otto. Starring Glenn Howerton, Sarah Minnich, Scott Takeda, and Matt Pittenger. SYNOPSIS: In 1985, Willem de Kooning’s “Woman-Ochre,” one of the most valuable paintings of the 20th century, was cut from its frame at the University of Arizona Museum of Art. 32 years later, the painting was found […]
2022 SXSW Film Festival Review – Linoleum
Linoleum, 2022. Written and directed by Colin West. Starring Jim Gaffigan, Rhea Seehorn, Katelyn Nacon, Gabriel Rush, Amy Hargreaves, West Duchovny, Michael Ian Black, Tony Shalhoub, Elisabeth Henry, and Roger Hendricks Simon. SYNOPSIS: When the host of a failing children’s science show tries to fulfill his childhood dream of becoming an astronaut by building a […]
2022 SXSW Film Festival Review – Clean
Clean, 2022. Directed by Lachlan McLeod. Starring Sandra Pankhurst. SYNOPSIS: A fly-on-the-wall insight into the world of trauma cleaning through the journey of larger-than-life business owner Sandra Pankhurst and the workers at Melbourne’s Specialised Trauma Cleaning Services. Trauma cleaning is a remarkably niche subject and one scarcely explored on film, beyond perhaps the mostly-forgotten 2008 […]
Movie Review – Fresh (2022)
Fresh, 2022. Directed by Mimi Cave. Starring Daisy Edgar-Jones, Sebastian Stan, Jojo T. Gibbs, Charlotte Le Bon, Andrea Bang, and Dayo Okeniyi. SYNOPSIS: The horrors of modern dating seen through one young woman’s defiant battle to survive her new boyfriend’s unusual appetites. The horror genre has historically been a potent outlet for filmmakers to express […]
Video Game Review – Who Pressed Mute on Uncle Marcus?
Shaun Munro reviews Who Pressed Mute on Uncle Marcus?… Wales Interactive’s latest FMV thriller romp is certainly a mild improvement upon most of their recent efforts – namely Night Book and Bloodshore – yet despite the greater thought that’s been put into its execution, it’s still a wildly uneven effort. Sensibly shifting away from supernatural hooey and […]
Movie Review – Followers (2021)
Followers, 2021. Written and Directed by Marcus Harben. Starring Tanya Burr, Harry Jarvis, Nina Wadia, Loreece Harrison, and Erin Austen. SYNOPSIS: A struggling social media influencer discovers the house he shares is haunted. The ghost brings him and his friends fame and fortune, but with deadly consequences. There aren’t many riper subjects for satire these […]
2022 SXSW Film Festival Review – The Pez Outlaw
The Pez Outlaw, 2022. Directed by Amy Bandlien Storkel and Bryan Storkel. Starring Steven J. Glew. SYNOPSIS: Steve Glew spent the 1990s smuggling rare Pez dispensers into the U.S. from Eastern Europe, making millions of dollars. It was all magical until his arch-nemesis, The Pezident, decided to destroy him. Amy Bandlien Storkel and Bryan Storkel’s […]
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