Year: 2024 Runtime: 109 minutes Director: Pamela Adlon Writers: Ilana Glazer, Josh Rabinowitz Actors: Ilana Glazer, Michelle Buteau, Hasan Minhaj, John Carroll Lynch, Stephan James, Oliver Platt, Elena Ouspenskaia, Keith Lucas By Rosa Parra “Babes” is directed by Pamela Adlon and follows a pair of friends–co-writer Ilana Glazer as Eden and Michelle Buteau as Dawn–whose friendship dates back to their childhood. They’ve developed a tradition … Continue reading Review: Babes
Year: 2023 Runtime: 108 minutes Writer/Director: Marija Kavtaradz Actors: Kęstutis Cicėnas, Greta Grinevičiūt By Caz Armstrong Caution: There are some spoilers below. “Slow” is a Lithuanian film about asexual relationships, gracefully upheld by a reverence for physicality. Dovydas (Kęstutis Cicėnas) is a sign language interpreter hired to help a class of deaf students take dance classes with teacher Elena (Greta Grinevičiūtė). A relationship begins between … Continue reading Review: Slow
Year: 2023 Runtime: 97 minutes Director: Brittany Snow Writers: Becca Gleason, Brittany Snow Actors: Courtney Eaton, Francesca Reale, Thomas Mann, Dave Bautista, Joel McHale, Gina Rodriguez, Kid Cudi By Nadine Whitney “I want to be okay with me” – Riley Writer and director Brittany Snow’s debut feature “Parachute” is an intimate and impartial examination of the difficulty in dealing with persistent mental health issues and … Continue reading Review: Parachute
Year: 2022 Runtime: 92 minutes Director: Vera Drew Writers: Vera Drew, Bri LeRose Actors: Vera Drew, Griffin Kramer, Lynn Downey, Kane Distler, Nathan Faustyn, David Liebe Hart, Phil Braun By Taylor Hunsberger Right out of the gate I can tell you that Vera Drew’s “The People’s Joker” is the most original and interesting piece of media I have seen in years. What Drew has managed … Continue reading Review: The People’s Joker
Year: 2024 Runtime: 109 minutes Director/Writer: Alex Garland Starring: Kirsten Dunst, Wagner Moura, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Cailee Spaeny, Nick Offerman, Jefferson White, Nelson Lee, Evan Lai, Sonoya Mizuno By Morgan Roberts “Our mission is to report these horrors of war with accuracy and without prejudice. We always have to ask ourselves whether the level of risk is worth the story. What is bravery, and what … Continue reading Review: Civil War
Year:2024 Runtime: 122 minutes Directed by: Sam Taylor-Johnson Written by: Matt Greenhalgh Starring: Jack O’Connell, Marisa Abela, Lesley Manville, Eddie Marsan, Bronson Webb, Juliet Cowan By Sarah Manvel In 2009 writer Matt Greenhalgh and director Sam Taylor-Johnson collaborated on “Nowhere Boy,” which was about how John Lennon the young man became John Lennon the Beatle. Now in 2024 writer Matt Greenhalgh and director Sam Taylor-Johnson … Continue reading Review: Back to Black
Year: 2023 Runtime: 73 minutes Writers/Directors: Chiara Malta, Sébastien Laudenbach Actors: Mélinée Leclerc, Clotilde Hesme, Laetitia Dosch, Esteban, Patrick Pineau, Claudine Acs, Jean-Marie Fonbonne, Antoine Momey, Scarlett Cholleton, Alenza Dus, Anais Weller, Milan Cerisier, Nahil Mostefa, Pietro Sermonti, and Anna Parent By Joan Amenn If anyone were to say to me that animation is for children, this is one of the films I would show them … Continue reading Animated April Review: Chicken for Linda!
Year: 2024 Runtime:100 minutes Director: Thea Sharrock Writer: Jonny Sweet Actors: Olivia Colman, Jessie Buckley, Anjana Vasan, Timothy Spall, Hugh Skinner, Alisha Weir, Paul Chahidi By Joan Amenn “This is more true than you think.” Take two of the best actresses working today, add one supporting actress whose work is gaining notice and toss in a toxic paternal relationship in the 1920’s and you have … Continue reading Review: Wicked Little Letters
Year: 2024 Runtime: 111 Minutes Director: Kinshuk Surjan By Morgan Roberts In India’s rural agricultural communities, there is an epidemic. Spurred by poverty and crippling debt, many farmers die by suicide, leaving their families to pick up the pieces. Sanjivani is one such woman who lost her husband to suicide. Unable to work the same way as her husband and with children left to raise, … Continue reading CPH:DOX 2024 “Marching in the Dark”
Year: 2024 Runtime: 110 minutes Writer/ Director: Kat Rohrer Actors: Proschat Madani, Caroline Peters, Heikko Deutschmann, Gohat Nurbachsch, Barbara Spitz, Allegra Tinnefeld, Nicole Ansari-Cox, Anton Noori By Sarah Manvel “What a Feeling” is a midlife crisis movie that doesn’t take itself seriously. It is also an immigrant love story set in Vienna, and only after that is it a gay film – not a welder … Continue reading BFI Flare 2024: What a Feeling
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