Language Lessons, 2021. Co-written and directed by Natalie Morales. Starring Mark Duplass and Natalie Morales. SYNOPSIS: A Spanish teacher and her student develop an unexpected friendship. A year-plus into the COVID-19 pandemic, many if not most of us are surely fed up with films about the global predicament, whether explicitly or tangentially. But Natalie Morales’ feature […]
2021 SXSW Film Festival Review – Fruits of Labor
Fruits of Labor, 2021. Directed by Emily Cohen Ibañez. SYNOPSIS: A Mexican-American teenage farmworker dreams of graduating high school, when ICE raids in her community threaten to separate her family and force her to become her family’s breadwinner. A perilous coming-of-age documentary from director Emily Cohen Ibañez, Fruits of Labor explores the daily struggles of America’s […]
2021 SXSW Film Festival Review – The Oxy Kingpins
The Oxy Kingpins, 2021. Directed by Brendan Fitzgerald. SYNOPSIS: Covers the untold story of how a network of pharmaceutical manufacturers, distributors, and retailers worked together to orchestrate and perpetuate the opioid crisis that has killed over half a million people in America. America’s opioid epidemic has killed 700,000 people over the last two decades, resulting in […]
2021 SXSW Film Festival Review – We Are the Thousand
We Are the Thousand, 2021. Directed by Anita Rivaroli. SYNOPSIS: A thousand musicians gathered together with one mission – to get the Foo Fighters to perform in their small town. While there will certainly be more immediately “worthy” causes to get the documentary feature treatment in 2021, there’s also a lot to be said for […]
2021 SXSW Film Festival Review – Paul Dood’s Deadly Lunch Break
Paul Dood’s Deadly Lunch Break, 2021. Co-written and directed by Nick Gillespie. Starring Tom Meeten, Katherine Parkinson, Kris Marshall, Alice Lowe, Mandeep Dhillon, Johnny Vegas, Steve Oram, Craig Parkinson, Kevin Bishop, and Pippa Haywood. SYNOPSIS: A weedy charity-shop worker is set on winning the big national talent show. But when the actions of five selfish […]
2021 SXSW Film Festival Review – The Hunt for Planet B
The Hunt for Planet B, 2021. Directed by Nathaniel Kahn. SYNOPSIS: Taking us behind the scenes with NASA’s high-stakes James Webb Space Telescope, The Hunt for Planet B follows a pioneering group of scientists – many of them women – on their quest to find another Earth among the stars. The possibility of extraterrestrial life […]
2021 SXSW Film Festival Review – The Feast
The Feast, 2021. Directed by Lee-Haven Jones. Starring Anne Elwy, Nia Roberts, Julian Lewis Jones, Steffan Cennydd, Sion Alun Davies, Lisa Palfrey, and Rhodri Meilir. SYNOPSIS: Over an evening a wealthy family gathers for a sumptuous dinner with guests in their ostentatious house in the Welsh mountains. Served by a mysteriously disturbing young woman, the […]
2021 SXSW Film Festival Review – Alien on Stage
Alien on Stage, 2020. Directed by Lucy Harvey and Danielle Kummer. SYNOPSIS: British bus drivers’ amateur stage show of Ridley Scott’s Alien accidentally makes it to a famous London theatre! With awkward acting and special effects requiring more luck than judgement, will their homemade homage be alright on the night? In a cinematic landscape that seems […]
2021 SXSW Film Festival Review – Witch Hunt
Witch Hunt, 2021. Written and directed by Elle Callahan. Starring Gideon Adlon, Elizabeth Mitchell, Abigail Cowen, Nicholas and Cameron Crovetti, and Christian Camargo. SYNOPSIS: In a modern America where witches are real and witchcraft is illegal, a sheltered teenager must face her own demons and prejudices as she helps two young witches avoid law enforcement and […]
2021 SXSW Film Festival Review – Offseason
Offseason, 2021. Written and directed by Mickey Keating. Starring Joe Swanberg, Jocelin Donahue, Melora Walters, Richard Brake, and Jeremy Gardner. SYNOPSIS: After receiving a mysterious letter, a woman travels to a desolate island town and soon becomes trapped in a nightmare. Are there any films more frustrating to watch – let alone review – than superbly […]
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