In the Same Breath, 2021. Directed by Nanfu Wang. SYNOPSIS: How did the Chinese government turn pandemic cover ups in Wuhan into a triumph for the Communist party? If documentaries about ongoing subjects have a tendency to age poorly, that’s unlikely to hold true for Nanfu Wang’s (One Child Nation) monumental deep-dive into the beginnings of […]
2021 Sundance Film Festival Review – One for the Road
One for the Road, 2021. Co-written and directed by Baz Poonpiriya. Starring Tor Thanapob, Ice Natara, Violette Wautier, Aokbab Chutimon, Ploi Horwang, and Noon Siraphun. SYNOPSIS: Boss, a high-end club owner living in New York, receives a call from his friend in Thailand, Aood, revealing he is in the last stages of terminal cancer. Director Baz […]
2021 Sundance Film Festival Review – Seeds of Deceit
Shaun Munro reviews the Sundance premiere of Dutch documentary series Seeds of Deceit… Miriam Guttmann’s three-part documentary series premiering at Sundance could so easily have lent its inherently scandalous subject matter a trashy, tabloid-y treatment, yet Guttman opts instead for robust restraint, foregrounding the stories of abuse victims over the mythology of their abuser. Jan […]
Movie Review – Outside the Wire (2021)
Outside the Wire, 2020. Directed by Mikael Håfström. Starring Anthony Mackie, Damson Idris, Emily Beecham, Michael Kelly, and Pilou Asbæk. SYNOPSIS: In the near future, a drone pilot sent into a war zone finds himself paired with a top-secret android officer on a mission to stop a nuclear attack. Netflix has made it abundantly clear they’re […]
Movie Review – Breach (2020)
Breach, 2020. Directed by John Suits. Starring Bruce Willis, Johnny Messner, Thomas Jane, Rachel Nichols, Corey Large, Alexander Kane, Cody Kearsley, and Kassandra Clementi. SYNOPSIS: On the cusp of fatherhood, a junior mechanic aboard an interstellar ark to New Earth must outwit a malevolent cosmic terror intent on using the spaceship as a weapon. It’s little […]
Movie Review – The Midnight Sky (2020)
The Midnight Sky, 2020. Directed by George Clooney. Starring George Clooney, Felicity Jones, Kyle Chandler, Demián Bichir, David Oyelowo, Tiffany Boone, Caoilinn Springall, Sophie Rundle, and Ethan Peck. SYNOPSIS: A lone scientist in the Arctic races to contact a crew of astronauts returning home to a mysterious global catastrophe. Those hoping that Netflix were set […]
Movie Review – Skylines (2020)
Skylines, 2020. Written and directed by Liam O’Donnell. Starring Lindsey Morgan, Rhona Mitra, Alexander Siddig, James Cosmo, Daniel Bernhardt, Yayan Ruhian, and Jonathan Howard. SYNOPSIS: When a virus threatens to turn the now Earth-dwelling friendly alien hybrids against humans, Captain Rose Corley must lead a team of elite mercenaries on a mission to the alien world […]
Movie Review – Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (2020)
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, 2020. Directed by George C. Wolfe. Starring Viola Davis, Chadwick Boseman, Glynn Turman, Colman Domingo, Jeremy Shamos, Taylour Paige, Jonny Coyne, Michael Potts, and Dusan Brown. SYNOPSIS: Chicago, 1927. A recording session. Tensions rise between Ma Rainey, her ambitious horn player, and the white management determined to control the uncontrollable “Mother […]
Movie Review – Jiu Jitsu (2020)
Jiu Jitsu, 2020. Co-written and directed by Dimitri Logothetis. Starring Alain Moussi, Frank Grillo, JuJu Chan, Tony Jaa, and Nicolas Cage. SYNOPSIS: An ancient order of expert jiu jitsu fighters faces a vicious race of alien invaders in a battle for Earth every six years, but when Earth’s hero is defeated by the leader of the […]
Movie Review – Mank (2020)
Mank, 2020. Directed by David Fincher. Starring Gary Oldman, Amanda Seyfried, Charles Dance, Lily Collins, Tuppence Middleton, and Tom Burke. SYNOPSIS: 1930s Hollywood is reevaluated through the eyes of scathing wit and alcoholic screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz as he races to finish “Citizen Kane.” In attempting to reconcile alcoholic screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz’s quest to […]
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