CODA, Flee, Hive and Summer of Soul Win Top Sundance 2021 Prizes
On Tuesday, February 2nd, the 2021 Sundance film festival had its last premieres, and as well handed out its awards. With 73 feature...
Read MoreSundance 2021 Review: Mayday – “This ambitious project had a lot of promise”
“Mary. Alpha. Yankee. Delta. Alpha. Yankee” These words repeat over and over again, using the phonetic alphabet utilized in...
Read MoreSundance 2021 Review: Searchers – “Everyone is searching for something”
Ok, I’ll admit it, more than once I’ve spent an evening having an enjoyable time swiping right and left through a dating app...
Read MoreSundance 2021 Review: Passing – “Shot with intense beauty and sophistication”
Passing, the directorial debut from Rebecca Hall is based on the 1929 novel by Nella Larsen. It tells the story of Irene (Tessa Thompson)...
Read MoreSundance 2021 Review: Marvelous and the Black Hole – “Hitting the heartstrings when you least expect it”
At thirteen years old Sammy (Miya Cech) is struggling. The teenager is grief-stricken at the death of her mother, and takes it out on...
Read MoreSundance 2021 Review: On The Count of Three – “Something fairly unique”
A word of caution prior to the review and about this film – it deals almost entirely with suicide. If this is a difficult topic to...
Read MoreSundance 2021 Review: Playing With Sharks -“An insight into a remarkable woman”
I’ve been terrified of sharks since my parents introduced me to Steven Spielberg’s Jaws when I was much too young. As...
Read MoreSundance 2021 Review: Mass – “An astutely crafted chamber piece”
Lewis B. Smedes is quoted as saying, “Forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember. We change the memory of our...
Read MoreSundance 2021 Review: Ma Belle, My Beauty – “Benefits from the stunning surroundings of rural France”
Ma Belle, My Beauty explores a type of relationship not often depicted in film – polyamory. These intimate relationships between...
Read MoreSundance 2021 Review: How it Ends – “It might be about the end of the world, but it is also entirely optimistic”
How it Ends is a pandemic film without a pandemic. Instead, the empty streets of Los Angeles stand in for a pre-apocolyptic world on the...
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