One day before its premiere during the 2021 Sundance Film Festival, Jockey has found a home with Sony Pictures Classics announcing it has acquired all worldwide rights. From director Clint Bentley, Jockey stars Clifton Collins Jr. as an aging jockey on one last run for a championship. Out of nowhere, a young jockey claiming to […]
2021 Sundance Film Festival Review – A Glitch in the Matrix
Glitch in the Matrix, 2020. Directed by Rodney Ascher. SYNOPSIS: Are we in fact living in a simulation? This is the question postulated, wrestled with, and ultimately argued for through archival footage, compelling interviews with real people shrouded in digital avatars, and a collection of cases from some of our most iconoclastic figures in contemporary […]
Morbius to undergo more reshoots as Jared Leto hints at script issues
Having originally been set to arrive in July of last year, Sony Pictures’ Jared Leto-headlined Marvel movie Morbius saw itself bumped into 2021 in the wake of the pandemic, with the studio then announcing earlier this month that the film has been pushed back again and is now looking at a January 21st 2022 release. […]
Mark Hamill and Eric Roberts Hitch a Ride: A VHS-Era Double Bill
Tom Jolliffe looks back at a couple of video era films about nefarious hitchhikers, The Nature of The Beast and Midnight Ride… ‘My mother told me never to do this.’ Words of wisdom foolishly ignored by Jim Halsey (C. Thomas Howell) in the 1986 Rutger Hauer classic, The Hitcher. Halsey picked up a hitchhiker and […]
2021 Sundance Film Festival Review – Mass
Mass, 2021. Written and directed by Fran Kranz. Starring Jason Isaacs, Ann Dowd, Martha Plimpton, and Reed Birney. SYNOPSIS: Years after a tragic shooting, the parents of both the victim and the perpetrator meet face-to-face. In the wake of any tragedy, those affected scramble to make some sense of what’s happened in order to move on […]
2021 Sundance Film Festival Review – Ailey
Ailey, 2021. Directed by Jamila Wignot. SYNOPSIS: A feature-length portrait of the life and work of dancer and choreographer Alvin Ailey. “Sometimes your name becomes bigger than yourself.” A single line from Ailey sums up the enigmatic figure at the center of this new documentary. That’s not to say the iconic dancer and choreographer wasn’t […]
2021 Sundance Film Festival Review – Marvelous and the Black Hole
Marvelous and the Black Hole, 2020. Written and directed by Kate Tsang. Starring Miya Cech, Rhea Perlman, Leonardo Nam, Kannon Omachi, Paulina Lule, and Keith Powell. SYNOPSIS: A teenage delinquent teams up with a surly children’s party magician to navigate her dysfunctional family and inner demons. As a coming-of-age comedy with a quirky title, Marvelous […]
Ethan Hawke reuniting with Sinister director Scott Derrickson on Blumhouse’s The Black Phone
Blumhouse has announced that Ethan Hawke is set to reunite with Sinister director Scott Derrickson on The Black Phone, the upcoming adaptation of the horror short story by Joe Hill. As per THR, The Black Phone follows a “kidnapped kid who finds himself in a soundproof basement surrounded by the remains of other victims. When […]
2021 Sundance Film Festival Review – Wild Indian
Wild Indian, 2021. Written and directed by Lyle Mitchell Corbine Jr. Starring Michael Greyeyes, Chaske Spencer, Jesse Eisenberg, Kate Bosworth, Phoenix Wilson, and Julian Gopal. SYNOPSIS: Two men learn to confront a traumatic secret they share involving the savage murder of a schoolmate. If the joy of film festivals often lies in witnessing the emergence of […]
2021 Sundance Film Festival Review – The Cursed
The Cursed, 2021. Directed by Sean Ellis. Starring Boyd Holbrook, Kelly Reilly, Alistair Petrie, Roxane Duran, and Áine Rose Daly. SYNOPSIS: In the French countryside during the 1800s, John McBride, a pathologist tasked with determining whether the body of a young boy found in the works was the work of man or beast. After the […]
