Bliss, 2021. Directed by Mike Cahill. Starring Owen Wilson, Salma Hayek, Nesta Cooper, Jorge Lendeborg Jr. and Ronny Chieng. SYNOPSIS: A recently divorced man loses his job and subsequently bumps into a woman who claims that the world in which he lives is actually a simulation. The Matrix, but with Owen Wilson. That’s essentially the […]
Movie Review – Synchronic (2019)
Synchronic, 2019. Directed by Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead. Starring Anthony Mackie, Jamie Dornan, Ally Ioannides, Katie Aselton and Ramiz Monsef. SYNOPSIS: Two paramedics find themselves embroiled in the chaos of a new “designer drug”, which has been linked to several gruesome deaths. Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead are among the leading modern proponents of […]
Donnie Darko with critic Ren Zelen | The Pick of the Flicks Podcast #75
On The Pick of the Flicks Podcast, a different guest drops in every week to chat about their favourite film. This week, film critic Ren Zelen digs deep into the inner workings of the mind-bending Donnie Darko… On this week’s episode of The Pick of the Flicks Podcast, film critic Ren Zelen stops by to […]
Close Encounters of the Third Kind with Astronaut director Shelagh McLeod | The Pick of the Flicks Podcast #71
On The Pick of the Flicks Podcast, a different guest drops in every week to chat about their favourite film. This week, director Shelagh McLeod beams in for a chat about the Spielberg sci-fi classic Close Encounters of the Third Kind… On this week’s episode of The Pick of the Flicks Podcast, filmmaker Shelagh McLeod […]