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 culture.Filmmaker Rodney Ascher […]
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 with their lives, but […]
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 essential or bombastic himself, […]
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 and the Black Hole […]
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 little-known filmmakers on a […]
2021 Sundance Film Festival Review – Passing
Passing, 2021.Written and directed by Rebecca Hall. Starring Tessa Thompson, Ruth Negga, André Holland, Alexander Skarsgård, and Bill Camp.SYNOPSIS:Follows the unexpected reunion of two high school friends, whose renewed acquaintance ignites a mutual obsession that threatens both of their carefully constructed realities.Rebecca Hall makes a bold feature debut with this adaptation of Nella Larsen’s 1929 […]
2021 Sundance Film Festival Review – Searchers
Searchers, 2021.Directed by Pacho Velez.SYNOPSIS:Searchers draws on encounters with a diverse set of New Yorkers as they navigate their preferred dating apps, searching for their special someone.Among the most mentally debilitating casualties of the COVID-19 pandemic is surely the absence of a traditional dating scene in most countries around the world, as elucidated with warmth and […]
Censor Never Reaches Its Full Horror Potential | Sundance 2021 Video Review
Censor, 2021.Directed by Prano Bailey-Bond. Starring Niamh Algar, Nicholas Burns, Vincent Franklin, Sophia La Porta, Adrian Schiller, Michael Smiley, Clare Holman, Andrew Havill, Felicity Montagu, Danny Lee Wynter, Clare Perkins, Guillaume Delaunay, Richard Glover, Beau Gadsdon, Amelie Child-Villiers.You may call me a bit sick for this, but I expected more “nasty” out of this video […]
2021 Sundance Film Festival Review – Try Harder!
Try Harder!, 2021.Directed by Debbie Lum.SYNOPSIS:In a universe where cool kids are nerds, the orchestra is world class and being Asian American is the norm, seniors at Lowell High School compete for the top prize: admission to the college of their dreams.Debbie Lum’s fly-on-the-wall documentary Try Harder! offers an intimate window into a subject most viewers […]
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