Resurrection, 2022. Written and directed by Andrew Semans. Starring Rebecca Hall, Tim Roth, Grace Kaufman, Michael Esper, and Angela Wong Carbone. SYNOPSIS: Margaret’s life is in order. She is capable, disciplined, and successful. Everything is under control. That is, until David returns, carrying with him the horrors of Margaret’s past. Rebecca Hall and Tim Roth […]
Movie Review – Living (2022)
Living, 2022. Directed by Oliver Hermanus. Starring Bill Nighy, Aimee Lou Wood, Alex Sharp, and Tom Burke. SYNOPSIS: An English-language adaptation of Akira Kurosawa’s 1952 film Ikiru, set in London in the 1950s. It’s a testament to the tectonic power of Akira Kurosawa’s classic 1952 existential drama Ikiru that, even seven full decades on, the […]
Movie Review – You Won’t Be Alone (2022)
You Won’t Be Alone, 2022. Written and directed by Goran Stolevski. Starring Noomi Rapace, Anamaria Marinca, Alice Englert, Carloto Cotta, Félix Maritaud, and Sara Klimoska. SYNOPSIS: In an isolated mountain village in 19th-century Macedonia, a young girl is kidnapped and then transformed into a witch by an ancient spirit. We’ve seen existentialism filtered through the […]
Movie Review – Strawberry Mansion (2021)
Strawberry Mansion, 2021. Written and directed by Albert Birney and Kentucker Audley. Starring Penny Fuller, Kentucker Audley, Grace Glowicki, Reed Birney, Linas Phillips, and Constance Shulman. SYNOPSIS: In a future where the government records dreams and taxes them, a dream auditor gets caught up in the dreams of an aging eccentric. Forward-thinking authors over the decades […]
Movie Review – TikTok, Boom. (2022)
TikTok, Boom., 2022. Directed by Shalini Kantayya. SYNOPSIS: With TikTok crowned the world’s most downloaded app, these are the personal stories of a cultural phenomenon, told through an ensemble cast of Gen-Z natives, journalists, and experts alike. Coded Bias director Shalini Kantayya’s follow-up doc challenges yet another window of our increasingly algorithm-controlled lives; social media, […]
Movie Review – Call Jane (2022)
Call Jane, 2022. Directed by Phyllis Nagy. Starring Elizabeth Banks, Sigourney Weaver, Chris Messina, Kate Mara, Wunmi Mosaku, and Cory Michael Smith. SYNOPSIS: A married woman with an unwanted pregnancy lives in a time where she can’t get a legal abortion, and works with a group of suburban women to find help. Oscar-nominated Carol writer […]
Movie Review – Sharp Stick (2022)
Sharp Stick, 2022. Written and directed by Lena Dunham. Starring Kristine Froseth, Jon Bernthal, Scott Speedman, Lena Dunham, Taylour Paige, and Jennifer Jason Leigh. SYNOPSIS: Sarah Jo is a naïve 26-year-old living on the fringes of Hollywood with her mother and sister. She just longs to be seen. When she begins an affair with her […]
Movie Review – We Met in Virtual Reality (2022)
We Met in Virtual Reality. 2022 Written and Directed by Joe Hunting SYNOPSIS: Filmed entirely inside the world of VR, this documentary captures the excitement and surprising intimacy of a burgeoning cultural movement, demonstrating the power of online connection in an isolated world. Meaningful human connection is not limited to in person. Frankly, it hasn’t […]
Movie Review – Cha Cha Real Smooth (2022)
Cha Cha Real Smooth, 2022. Written and Directed by Cooper Raiff. Starring Cooper Raiff, Dakota Johnson, Evan Assante, Vanessa Burghardt, Leslie Mann, Brad Garrett, Raúl Castillo, Colton Osario, Amara Pedroso Saquel, Odeya Rush, Brooklyn Ramirez, Kelly O’Sullivan, and Javien Mercado. SYNOPSIS: A young man who works as a Bar Mitzvah party host strikes up a […]
Movie Review – Superior (2021)
Superior, 2021. Co-written and directed by Erin Vassilopoulos. Starring Alessandra Mesa, Ani Mesa, Pico Alexander, Jake Hoffman, and Stanley Simons. SYNOPSIS: On the run, Marian returns to her hometown to hide out with her identical twin sister, Vivian, and in doing so alters the trajectory of both their lives. In what’s sure to be one of […]
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