The Sparks Brothers, 2021.Directed by Edgar Wright.SYNOPSIS:How can one rock band be successful, underrated, hugely influential, and criminally overlooked all at the same time? Take a musical odyssey through five weird and wonderful decades with brothers Ron and Russell Mael, celebrating the inspiring legacy of Sparks: your favorite band’s favorite band.As endearingly, fawningly nerdy as […]
2021 Sundance Film Festival Review – R#J
R#J, 2021.Co-written and directed by Carey Williams. Starring Camaron Engels, Francesca Noel, David Zayas, Diego Tinoco, Siddiq Saunderson, and Russell Hornsby.SYNOPSIS:A modern-day adaptation of Shakespeare’s romantic tragedy “Romeo and Juliet.”A movie adaptation of The Bard’s most popular play for the Instagram set has the obvious potential to be completely insufferable, and yet, Carey Williams’ daring debut […]
2021 Sundance Film Festival Review – Jockey
Jockey, 2021.Co-written and directed by Clint Bentley. Starring Clifton Collins Jr., Molly Parker, and Moisés Arias.SYNOPSIS:An aging jockey is determined to win one last championship, but his dream is complicated when a young rookie shows up claiming to be his son.It’s always enormously satisfying to see a talented, perhaps underappreciated character actor finally get gifted a […]
2021 Sundance Film Festival Review – The World to Come
The World to Come, 2020.Directed by Mona Fastvold. Starring Katherine Waterston, Vanessa Kirby, Casey Affleck, and Christopher Abbott.SYNOPSIS:Somewhere along the mid-19th century American East Coast frontier, two neighbouring couples battle hardship and isolation, witnessed by a splendid yet testing landscape, challenging them both physically and psychologically.Period gay romance has carved out quite the substantial niche […]
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.The undisputed winner of this year’s Sundance was […]
2021 Sundance Film Festival Review – Judas and the Black Messiah
Judas and the Black Messiah, 2021.Co-written and directed by Shaka King. Starring Daniel Kaluuya, Lakeith Stanfield, Jesse Plemons, Dominique Fishback, Lil Rey Howery, Martin Sheen, Ashton Sanders, Algee Smith, Darrell Britt-Gibson, and Dominique Thorne.SYNOPSIS:The story of Fred Hampton, deputy chairman of the national Black Panther Party, who was assassinated in 1969 by a Cook County […]
2021 Sundance Film Festival Review – Land
Land, 2021.Directed by Robin Wright. Starring Robin Wright, Demián Bichir, and Kim Dickens.SYNOPSIS:A bereaved woman seeks out a new life, off the grid in Wyoming.Not every debuting director needs to try and adapt the Great American Novel on their first time up to bat, but it’s a shame to see the eminently talented Robin Wright go […]
2021 Sundance Film Festival Review – Cusp
Cusp, 2021.Directed by Parker Hill and Isabel Bethencourt.SYNOPSIS:In a Texas military town, three teenage girls confront the dark corners of adolescence at the end of a fever dream summer.The first sight in Parker Hill and Isabel Bethencourt’s documentary Cusp couldn’t more literally visualise its central thematic, observing two young girls hanging out on a swing while two […]
2021 Sundance Film Festival Review – Life in a Day 2020
Life in a Day 2020, 2021.Directed by Kevin Macdonald.SYNOPSIS:Ten years after 2011’s Life in a Day, award-winning director Kevin Macdonald returns to present the story of another day on Earth: July 25, 2020.Of all the movies about the COVID-19 pandemic released as of late – from exploitative speculative thrillers to a rom-com heist film starring Anne […]
2021 Sundance Film Festival Review – Misha and the Wolves
Misha and the Wolves, 2021.Directed by Sam Hobkinson.SYNOPSIS:A woman’s Holocaust memoir takes the world by storm, but a fallout with her publisher-turned-detective reveals her story as an audacious deception created to hide a darker truth.Sam Hobkinson’s fascinating documentary Misha and the Wolves turns the notion of the “stranger-than-fiction” story on its head, focusing on the fraudulent particulars […]
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