Cryptozoo, 2021.Written and directed by Dash Shaw. Starring Lake Bell, Michael Cera, Angeliki Papoulia, Zoe Kazan, Peter Stormare, Grace Zabriskie, Louisa Krause, and Thomas Jay Ryan.SYNOPSIS:Cryptozookeepers try to capture a baku, a dream-eating hybrid creature of legend, and start wondering if they should display these beasts or keep them hidden and unknown.Cryptozoo is the weirdest fucking […]
2021 Sundance Film Festival Review – Homeroom
Homeroom, 2021.Directed by Peter Nicks.SYNOPSIS:Oakland as a tantalising case study. In a city that struggles with rising crime and health care woes, its public school systems aren’t exactly equipped to prepare youth for the travails of young adulthood.Director Peter Nicks’ (Waiting Room, The Force) observational documentary Homeroom affords a group of youngsters the luxury they’ve been so […]
2021 Sundance Film Festival Review – Human Factors
Human Factors, 2021.Written and directed by Ronny Trocker. Starring Sabine Timoteo, Mark Waschke, Jule Hermann, Wanja Valentin Kube, Hannes Perkmann, and Daniel Séjourné.SYNOPSIS:A mysterious home invasion triggers a shake in the core of a cosmopolitan middle-class family and unveils the fragility of truth and the power of individual perspective.Middle-class malaise is firmly well-trod cinematic subject […]
2021 Sundance Film Festival Review – In the Same Breath
In the Same Breath, 2021.Directed by Nanfu Wang.SYNOPSIS:How did the Chinese government turn pandemic cover ups in Wuhan into a triumph for the Communist party?If documentaries about ongoing subjects have a tendency to age poorly, that’s unlikely to hold true for Nanfu Wang’s (One Child Nation) monumental deep-dive into the beginnings of the COVID-19 pandemic in […]
2021 Sundance Film Festival Review – One for the Road
One for the Road, 2021.Co-written and directed by Baz Poonpiriya. Starring Tor Thanapob, Ice Natara, Violette Wautier, Aokbab Chutimon, Ploi Horwang, and Noon Siraphun.SYNOPSIS:Boss, a high-end club owner living in New York, receives a call from his friend in Thailand, Aood, revealing he is in the last stages of terminal cancer.Director Baz Poonpiriya (Countdown, Bad Genius) […]
2021 Sundance Film Festival Review – Seeds of Deceit
Shaun Munro reviews the Sundance premiere of Dutch documentary series Seeds of Deceit…Miriam Guttmann’s three-part documentary series premiering at Sundance could so easily have lent its inherently scandalous subject matter a trashy, tabloid-y treatment, yet Guttman opts instead for robust restraint, foregrounding the stories of abuse victims over the mythology of their abuser.Jan Karbaat was, […]
Movie Review – Outside the Wire (2021)
Outside the Wire, 2020.Directed by Mikael Håfström. Starring Anthony Mackie, Damson Idris, Emily Beecham, Michael Kelly, and Pilou Asbæk.SYNOPSIS:In the near future, a drone pilot sent into a war zone finds himself paired with a top-secret android officer on a mission to stop a nuclear attack.Netflix has made it abundantly clear they’re hoping to capitalise on […]
Arrow Video FrightFest 2020 Review – Sky Sharks
Sky Sharks, 2020.Written and directed by Marc Fehse. Starring Thomas Morris, Barbara Nedeljakova, Eva Habermann, and Tony Todd.SYNOPSIS:A team of geologists discovers a Nazi warship in the Arctic that was believed lost: the Himmelsfaust, a gigantic steel colossus from the Third Reich, filled to the brim with unimaginable machines of destruction. Dr. Klaus Richter, the […]
Movie Review – Breach (2020)
Breach, 2020.Directed by John Suits. Starring Bruce Willis, Johnny Messner, Thomas Jane, Rachel Nichols, Corey Large, Alexander Kane, Cody Kearsley, and Kassandra Clementi.SYNOPSIS:On the cusp of fatherhood, a junior mechanic aboard an interstellar ark to New Earth must outwit a malevolent cosmic terror intent on using the spaceship as a weapon.It’s little secret that Bruce Willis […]
Movie Review – The Midnight Sky (2020)
The Midnight Sky, 2020.Directed by George Clooney. Starring George Clooney, Felicity Jones, Kyle Chandler, Demián Bichir, David Oyelowo, Tiffany Boone, Caoilinn Springall, Sophie Rundle, and Ethan Peck.SYNOPSIS:A lone scientist in the Arctic races to contact a crew of astronauts returning home to a mysterious global catastrophe.Those hoping that Netflix were set to wrap up 2020 […]
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