The World to Come, 2020. Directed by Mona Fastvold. Starring Katherine Waterston, Vanessa Kirby, Casey Affleck, and Christopher Abbott. SYNOPSIS: Somewhere along the mid-19th century American East Coast frontier, two neighbouring couples battle hardship and isolation, witnessed by a splendid yet testing landscape, challenging them both physically and psychologically. Period gay romance has carved out […]
2021 Sundance Film Festival Review – CODA
CODA, 2021. Directed by Sian Heder. Starring Emilia Jones, Marlee Matlin, Troy Kotsur, Daniel Durant, Ferdia Walsh-Peelo, and Eugenio Derbez. SYNOPSIS: A hearing child in a deaf family finds herself torn between pursuing her love of music and her family’s reliance on her to be their connection to the outside world. The undisputed winner of […]
2021 Sundance Film Festival Review – Judas and the Black Messiah
Judas and the Black Messiah, 2021. Co-written and directed by Shaka King. Starring Daniel Kaluuya, Lakeith Stanfield, Jesse Plemons, Dominique Fishback, Lil Rey Howery, Martin Sheen, Ashton Sanders, Algee Smith, Darrell Britt-Gibson, and Dominique Thorne. SYNOPSIS: The story of Fred Hampton, deputy chairman of the national Black Panther Party, who was assassinated in 1969 by […]
2021 Sundance Film Festival Review – Land
Land, 2021. Directed by Robin Wright. Starring Robin Wright, Demián Bichir, and Kim Dickens. SYNOPSIS: A bereaved woman seeks out a new life, off the grid in Wyoming. Not every debuting director needs to try and adapt the Great American Novel on their first time up to bat, but it’s a shame to see the eminently […]
2021 Sundance Film Festival Review – Cusp
Cusp, 2021. Directed by Parker Hill and Isabel Bethencourt. SYNOPSIS: In a Texas military town, three teenage girls confront the dark corners of adolescence at the end of a fever dream summer. The first sight in Parker Hill and Isabel Bethencourt’s documentary Cusp couldn’t more literally visualise its central thematic, observing two young girls hanging out on […]
2021 Sundance Film Festival Review – Life in a Day 2020
Life in a Day 2020, 2021. Directed by Kevin Macdonald. SYNOPSIS: Ten years after 2011’s Life in a Day, award-winning director Kevin Macdonald returns to present the story of another day on Earth: July 25, 2020. Of all the movies about the COVID-19 pandemic released as of late – from exploitative speculative thrillers to a rom-com […]
2021 Sundance Film Festival Review – Misha and the Wolves
Misha and the Wolves, 2021. Directed by Sam Hobkinson. SYNOPSIS: A woman’s Holocaust memoir takes the world by storm, but a fallout with her publisher-turned-detective reveals her story as an audacious deception created to hide a darker truth. Sam Hobkinson’s fascinating documentary Misha and the Wolves turns the notion of the “stranger-than-fiction” story on its head, focusing […]
2021 Sundance Film Festival Review – Prisoners of the Ghostland
Prisoners of the Ghostland, 2021. Directed by Sion Sono. Starring Nicolas Cage, Sofia Boutella, Nick Cassavetes, Bill Moseley, Tak Sakaguchi, and Yuzuka Nakaya. SYNOPSIS: A notorious criminal must break an evil curse in order to rescue an abducted girl who has mysteriously disappeared. The long-awaited pairing of Nicolas Cage and filmmaker Sion Sono has naturally invited […]
2021 Sundance Film Festival Review – The Blazing World
The Blazing World, 2021. Co-written and directed by Carlson Young. Starring Udo Kier, Carlson Young, Dermot Mulroney, Vinessa Shaw, John Karna, and Soko. SYNOPSIS: Decades after the accidental drowning of her twin sister, a self-destructive young woman returns to her family home, finding herself drawn to an alternate dimension where her sister may still be […]
2021 Sundance Film Festival Review – Taming the Garden
Taming the Garden, 2021. Written and directed by Salomé Jashi. SYNOPSIS: Documentary follows trees that are transported, at great expense and inconvenience, from the coast of the Republic of Georgia to the private garden of that country’s former prime minister. Documentarian Salomé Jashi captures environmental disarray in a singularly startling – if extremely methodical – manner […]
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