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 […]
Netflix acquires Sundance darling Passing for over $15 million
Sundance is over, and the most notable films from the event are beginning to find their home. During the festival, Apple acquired CODA for a record-breaking $25M, while Jockey was picked up by Sony Pictures Classics ahead of its festival premiere. Now, the period drama Passing has been purchased.Late on Wednesday evening, news broke that […]
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 announces its award winners
As the 2021 Sundance Film Festival comes to a close, we begin the next era in film. After six days of the virtual film festival and over 70 feature films on display, the 2021 Sundance Film Festival’s Awards Ceremony took place last night. One of the biggest winners of the evening, and the whole festival, […]
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 […]
WTF Happened In Prisoners of the Ghostland?! | 2021 Sundance Video Review
Prisoners of the Ghostland, 2021.Directed by Sion Sono. Starring Nicolas Cage, Sofia Boutella, Nick Cassavetes, Ed Skrein, Bill Moseley, Yuzuka Nakaya, and Tak Sakaguchi.Nicolas Cage is known for his bizarre films. The same can be said about Japanese filmmaker Sion Sono. When these two minds mix, it’s nothing but pure insanity – though Prisoners of […]
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 – 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 […]
2021 Sundance Film Festival Review – Prisoners of the Ghostland
Prisoners of the Ghostland, 2021.Directed by Sion Sono. Starring Nicolas Cage, Sofia Boutella, Nick Cassavetes, Bill Moseley, Tak Sakaguchi, and Yuzuka Nakaya.SYNOPSIS:A notorious criminal must break an evil curse in order to rescue an abducted girl who has mysteriously disappeared.The long-awaited pairing of Nicolas Cage and filmmaker Sion Sono has naturally invited stratospheric expectations from their […]
2021 Sundance Film Festival Review – The Blazing World
The Blazing World, 2021.Co-written and directed by Carlson Young. Starring Udo Kier, Carlson Young, Dermot Mulroney, Vinessa Shaw, John Karna, and Soko.SYNOPSIS:Decades after the accidental drowning of her twin sister, a self-destructive young woman returns to her family home, finding herself drawn to an alternate dimension where her sister may still be alive.Multi-hyphenate writer-director-actress Carlson […]
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