We Are the Thousand, 2021. Directed by Anita Rivaroli. SYNOPSIS: A thousand musicians gathered together with one mission – to get the Foo Fighters to perform in their small town. While there will certainly be more immediately “worthy” causes to get the documentary feature treatment in 2021, there’s also a lot to be said for […]
2021 SXSW Film Festival Review – Paul Dood’s Deadly Lunch Break
Paul Dood’s Deadly Lunch Break, 2021. Co-written and directed by Nick Gillespie. Starring Tom Meeten, Katherine Parkinson, Kris Marshall, Alice Lowe, Mandeep Dhillon, Johnny Vegas, Steve Oram, Craig Parkinson, Kevin Bishop, and Pippa Haywood. SYNOPSIS: A weedy charity-shop worker is set on winning the big national talent show. But when the actions of five selfish […]
2021 SXSW Film Festival Review – The Hunt for Planet B
The Hunt for Planet B, 2021. Directed by Nathaniel Kahn. SYNOPSIS: Taking us behind the scenes with NASA’s high-stakes James Webb Space Telescope, The Hunt for Planet B follows a pioneering group of scientists – many of them women – on their quest to find another Earth among the stars. The possibility of extraterrestrial life […]
2021 SXSW Film Festival Review – The Feast
The Feast, 2021. Directed by Lee-Haven Jones. Starring Anne Elwy, Nia Roberts, Julian Lewis Jones, Steffan Cennydd, Sion Alun Davies, Lisa Palfrey, and Rhodri Meilir. SYNOPSIS: Over an evening a wealthy family gathers for a sumptuous dinner with guests in their ostentatious house in the Welsh mountains. Served by a mysteriously disturbing young woman, the […]
2021 SXSW Film Festival Review – Alien on Stage
Alien on Stage, 2020. Directed by Lucy Harvey and Danielle Kummer. SYNOPSIS: British bus drivers’ amateur stage show of Ridley Scott’s Alien accidentally makes it to a famous London theatre! With awkward acting and special effects requiring more luck than judgement, will their homemade homage be alright on the night? In a cinematic landscape that seems […]
2021 SXSW Film Festival Review – Witch Hunt
Witch Hunt, 2021. Written and directed by Elle Callahan. Starring Gideon Adlon, Elizabeth Mitchell, Abigail Cowen, Nicholas and Cameron Crovetti, and Christian Camargo. SYNOPSIS: In a modern America where witches are real and witchcraft is illegal, a sheltered teenager must face her own demons and prejudices as she helps two young witches avoid law enforcement and […]
2021 SXSW Film Festival Review – Demi Lovato: Dancing with the Devil
Shaun Munro reviews the SXSW premiere of YouTube’s documentary series Demi Lovato: Dancing with the Devil… On July 24th, 2018, singer Demi Lovato’s life was turned upside down when she was rushed to hospital following a near-fatal overdose of opioids and fentanyl. This four-part docu-series – effectively a 100-minute film chunked into four parts, set […]
2021 SXSW Film Festival Review – Offseason
Offseason, 2021. Written and directed by Mickey Keating. Starring Joe Swanberg, Jocelin Donahue, Melora Walters, Richard Brake, and Jeremy Gardner. SYNOPSIS: After receiving a mysterious letter, a woman travels to a desolate island town and soon becomes trapped in a nightmare. Are there any films more frustrating to watch – let alone review – than superbly […]
2021 SXSW Film Festival Review – United States vs. Reality Winner
United States vs. Reality Winner, 2021. Directed by Sonia Kennebeck. SYNOPSIS: A state of secrets and a ruthless hunt for whistleblowers – this is the story of 25-year-old Reality Winner, who disclosed a document about Russian election interference to the media and became the number one leak target of the Trump administration. Sonia Kennebeck’s (National […]
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 […]
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