Shaun Munro presents his top 50 films of 2021… And like that, 2021 has come to a close. While hardly heralding cinema’s great return at the box office, the past 12 months have seen the industry inch closer to something approaching “normality,” even as mid-budget films largely seemed to enjoy much greater success streaming at […]
Movie Review – Language Lessons (2021)
Language Lessons, 2021. Written and Directed by Natalie Morales. Starring Natalie Morales, Mark Duplass, and Desean Terry. SYNOPSIS: A Spanish teacher and her student develop an unexpected friendship. Given the opening scene of Language Lessons, which sees a confused online Spanish instructor named Cariño not even sure who she is supposed to be teaching, it’s […]
2021 SXSW Film Festival Review – Language Lessons
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 […]