Shaun Munro reviews the SXSW premiere of Hulu’s documentary series Sasquatch… This Duplass brothers-produced true crime series from documentarian Joshua Rofé (Lorena) attempts to bring truthful resolution to an eerie murder-mystery which has hounded a man for almost three decades. And so while Sasquatch – a three-part docu-series premiering on Hulu on April 20th – […]
Movie Review – Zack Snyder’s Justice League (2021)
Zack Snyder’s Justice League, 2021. Directed by Zack Snyder. Starring Ben Affleck, Henry Cavill, Amy Adams, Gal Gadot, Ray Fisher, Jason Momoa, Ezra Miller, Willem Dafoe, Jesse Eisenberg, Jeremy Irons, Diane Lane, Connie Nielsen, and J. K. Simmons. SYNOPSIS: Zack Snyder’s definitive director’s cut of Justice League. Determined to ensure Superman’s ultimate sacrifice was not […]
Movie Review – Cosmic Sin (2021)
Cosmic Sin, 2021. Co-written and directed by Edward Drake. Starring Frank Grillo, Bruce Willis, Brandon Thomas Lee, C.J. Perry, Corey Large, Lochlyn Munro, Costas Mandylor, and Adelaide Kane. SYNOPSIS: Seven rogue soldiers launch a preemptive strike against a newly discovered alien civilisation in the hopes of ending an interstellar war before it starts. Bruce Willis’ […]
Movie Review – Chaos Walking (2021)
Chaos Walking, 2021. Directed by Doug Liman. Starring Daisy Ridley, Tom Holland, Mads Mikkelsen, Demián Bichir, Cynthia Erivo, Nick Jonas, David Oyelowo, Ray McKinnon, and Kurt Sutter. SYNOPSIS: A dystopian world where there are no women and all living creatures can hear each other’s thoughts in a stream of images, words, and sounds called Noise. […]
Movie Review – The Marksman (2021)
The Marksman, 2020. Directed by Robert Lorenz. Starring Liam Neeson, Katheryn Winnick, Juan Pablo Raba, and Teresa Ruiz. SYNOPSIS: A rancher on the Arizona border becomes the unlikely defender of a young Mexican boy desperately fleeing the cartel assassins who’ve pursued him into the U.S. It didn’t take Liam Neeson long to backpedal on his 2017 […]
2021 Sundance Film Festival Review – Son of Monarchs
Son of Monarchs, 2021. Written and Directed by Alexis Gambis. Starring Tenoch Huerta Mejía, Alexia Rasmussen, Lázaro Gabino Rodríguez, Noé Hernández, Paulina Gaitán, and William Mapother. SYNOPSIS: A Mexican biologist living in New York returns to his hometown, nestled in the majestic butterfly forests of Michoacán. The journey forces him to confront past traumas and reflect […]
Movie Review – Willy’s Wonderland (2021)
Willy’s Wonderland, 2021. Directed by Kevin Lewis. Starring Nicolas Cage, Emily Tosta, Ric Reitz, Chris Warner, Kai Kadlec, Christian Del Grosso, Caylee Cowan, Terayle Hill, Jonathan Mercedes, David Sheftell, and Beth Grant. SYNOPSIS: A quiet drifter is tricked into a janitorial job at the now-condemned Willy’s Wonderland. The mundane tasks suddenly become an all-out fight for […]
2021 Sundance Film Festival Review – At the Ready
At the Ready, 2021. Directed by Maisie Crow. SYNOPSIS: A group of seniors train to become police officers and Border Patrol agents at El Paso’s Horizon High School, near the U.S./Mexico border. Documentaries about the American experience often prove especially eye-opening to outsiders, and that’s certainly the case with Maisie Crow’s (Jackson) new film At the […]
2021 Sundance Film Festival Review – President
President, 2021. Directed by Camilla Nielsson. SYNOPSIS: Zimbabwe is at a crossroads. The leader of the opposition MDC party, Nelson Chamisa, challenges the old guard ZANU-PF led by Emmerson Mnangagwa, known as “The Crocodile.” The election tests both the ruling party and the opposition. A “sequel” to Camilla Nielsson’s 2014 documentary Democrats, President returns viewers to Zimbabwe to […]
2021 Sundance Film Festival Review – Ma Belle, My Beauty
Ma Belle, My Beauty, 2021. Written and directed by Marion Hill. Starring Idella Johnson, Hannah Pepper, Lucien Guignard, and Sivan Noam Shimon. SYNOPSIS: A surprise reunion in the South of France reignites passions and jealousies between two women who were formerly polyamorous lovers. Polyamory is an oddly circumscribed subject in cinema, largely unexplored even by […]
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