Breaking, 2022. Co-written and directed by Abi Damaris Corbin. Starring John Boyega, Michael K. Williams, Nicole Beharie, Olivia Washington, Selenis Leyva, and Connie Britton. SYNOPSIS: A Marine war veteran faces mental and emotional challenges when he tries to reintegrate back into civilian life. Abi Damaris Corbin’s feature debut is a textbook example of a film […]
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 […]
Video Review – Magazine Dreams introduces ‘The Year of Jonathan Majors’
EJ Moreno with a video review of Magazine Dreams starring Jonathan Majors… One actor working today perfectly defines what it means to be a performer in this generation. Jonathan Majors offers controlled chaos; he knows how to distinguish between in-control and unhinged, making it look effortless. No movie has captured his raw talent like Magazine […]
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 […]
2023 Sundance Film Festival Review – Cat Person
Cat Person, 2023. Directed by Susanna Fogel. Starring Emilia Jones, Nicholas Braun, Geraldine Viswanathan, Hope Davis, Fred Melamed, and Isabella Rossellini. SYNOPSIS: Follows the brief relationship between twenty-year-old sophomore college student Margot, and an older man Robert, who is a regular at the movie theater where Margot works. The promise of adapting Kristen Roupenian’s iconic […]
2023 Sundance Film Festival Review – Iron Butterflies
Iron Butterflies, 2022. Written and directed by Roman Liubyi. SYNOPSIS: In summer 2014, sunflower fields and coal mines in eastern Ukraine turn into a 12 square kilometers crime scene. A multi-layered investigation into the downing of flight MH17, in which a butterfly-shaped shrapnel found in the pilot’s body implicated the state responsible for a war […]
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