Shortcomings, 2023. Directed by Randall Park. Starring Justin H. Min, Sherry Cola, Ally Maki, Debby Ryan, Tavi Gevinson, Sonoya Mizuno, Jacob Batalon, and Timothy Simons. SYNOPSIS: Follows a trio of young Bay Area urbanites – Ben Tanaka, Miko Hayashi, and Alice Kim – as they navigate a range of interpersonal relationships, traversing the country in […]
2023 Sundance Film Festival Review – Landscape with Invisible Hand
Landscape with Invisible Hand, 2023. Written and directed by Cory Finley. Starring Tiffany Haddish, Asante Blackk, Kylie Rogers, Josh Hamilton, Michael Gandolfini, and William Jackson Harper. SYNOPSIS: A pair of teenagers come up with a plan to ensure their families’ futures when an occupying alien race’s promise of economic prosperity leaves most of humanity impoverished […]
2023 Sundance Film Festival Review – The Starling Girl
The Starling Girl, 2023. Written and directed by Laurel Parmet. Starring Eliza Scanlen, Lewis Pullman, Jimmi Simpson, Austin Abrams, Wrenn Schmidt, and Jessamine Burgum. SYNOPSIS: 17-year-old Jem Starling struggles with her place within her Christian fundamentalist community. But everything changes when her magnetic youth pastor Owen returns to their church. Laurel Parmet makes a fundamentally […]
2023 Sundance Film Festival Review – You Hurt My Feelings
You Hurt My Feelings, 2023. Written and Directed by Nicole Holofcener. Starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Tobias Menzies, Michaela Watkins, Arian Moayed, and Jeannie Berlin. SYNOPSIS: A novelist’s longstanding marriage is suddenly upended when she overhears her husband giving his honest reaction to her latest book. Writer-director Nicole Holofcener reunites with her Enough Said star Julia Louis-Dreyfus for […]
2023 Sundance Film Festival Review – Judy Blume Forever
Judy Blume Forever, 2023. Directed by Davina Pardo and Leah Wolchok. Starring Judy Blume. SYNOPSIS: Judy Blume and the generations of readers who have sparked to her work. It will examine her impact on pop culture and the occasional controversies over her frankness about puberty and sex. You won’t find many pop-culture figures more deserving […]
2023 Sundance Film Festival Review – The Deepest Breath
The Deepest Breath, 2023. Directed by Laura McGann. SYNOPSIS: A champion free-diver and expert safety diver seemed destined for one another despite the different paths they took to meet at the pinnacle of the free-diving world. A look at the thrilling rewards – and inescapable risks – of chasing dreams through the depths of the […]
2023 Sundance Film Festival Review – Divinity
Divinity, 2023. Written and directed by Eddie Alcazar. Starring Stephen Dorff, Moises Arias, Jason Genao, Karrueche Tran, Bella Thorne, and Scott Bakula. SYNOPSIS: Centers on two mysterious brothers, who abduct a mogul during his quest for immortality. Meanwhile, a seductive woman helps them launch a journey of self-discovery. Sci-fi is so, so hard to pull off […]
2023 Sundance Film Festival Review – Bad Behaviour
Bad Behaviour, 2023. Written and directed by Alice Englert. Starring Jennifer Connelly, Ben Whishaw, Alice Englert, Ana Scotney, Dasha Nekrasova, and Marlon Williams. SYNOPSIS: Former child actress Lucy seeks enlightenment at a retreat led by spiritual leader Elon, while she also navigates the close yet turbulent relationship with her stunt performer daughter, Dylan. Being the […]
2023 Sundance Film Festival Review – The Eternal Memory
The Eternal Memory, 2023. Directed by Maite Alberdi. SYNOPSIS: Augusto and Paulina have been together for 25 years. Eight years ago, he was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. Both fear the day he no longer recognises her. Maite Alberdi follows up her thoroughly charming, Oscar-nominated documentary The Mole Agent with another intimate film about the toils […]
2023 Sundance Film Festival Review – Eileen
Eileen, 2023. Directed by William Oldroyd. Starring Thomasin McKenzie, Anne Hathaway, Shea Whigham, Owen Teague, and Marin Ireland. SYNOPSIS: A woman’s friendship with a new co-worker at the prison facility where she works takes a sinister turn. Anyone who saw William Oldroyd’s feature debut Lady Macbeth should know to expect more from his follow-up than the […]
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