Review by James Lindorf Director Adam Barton, producers Jack Turner and Chris Smith partnered with Resonant Pictures on the 2020 SXSW Official Selection The Boy Who Sold The World. Ben Pasternak helped create a viral game app while in still middle school. At the age...
Review by David Ferguson Greetings again from the darkness. If we are to believe what we see in movies, professional assassins rarely get to enjoy their retirement. Writer-Director Linhan Zhang (DINNER WITH STRANGER, 2018) informs us at the start that Hong Kong is...
Review by Lisa Payne Derrick (Dew Brandon Jones), the lechy (normal for the time) photojournalist is in a hotel bar and spots an opportunity to leer at two pretty women, sorry I mean make a “documentary”. Fran (Rachel Aig) and Marcy (Maddison Bullock) are stewardesses...
Greetings again from the darkness. It’s now been over 100 years since World War I ended. The Great War garners barely a mention in high school history books these days, and Hollywood has devoted much more time and energy to WWII. Filmmaker Peter Jackson did his part...
Review by James Lindorf From the Documentary Spotlight section of the 2020 South by Southwest Film Festival comes Director Maria Finitzo’s (In the Game) feature-length documentary The Dilemma of Desire. Inspired in part by the ground-breaking essay “Uses of the...
Greetings again from the darkness. The story of the Eastern Cemetery in Louisville, Kentucky is disheartening, yet somehow not overly surprising. It’s known as the most over-buried cemetery in America, and while the practice of over-burying – more than one body per...
Review by James Lindorf Director Sarah Brennan Kolb is a proud Texan who knows her way around a ranch. Almost five years ago, she started planning a film that looked at the west’s changing landscape and celebrated the rise of the cowgirl. Good Ol Girl is a...
Review by Lisa Payne Draupadi Unleashed is the story of 16 year old Indira (Salena Qureshi), who is trying to follow her heart and find her own identity in 1930s India. She has to battle against an arranged marriage, a self-entitled, privileged guru and the cruel...
Review by Lisa Payne A waiter on his way home from work one night is knocked off his bicycle by a hit and run car driver. We are introduced to the relationship of Shannon (Maya Hawke of Stranger Things fame) and Jamie (Fred Hechinger) from the vantage point of...
Review by Lisa Payne I love seeing movies I know nothing about, and surprise me from the start. To Your Last Dearh is an adult animation horror film. I don’t get to say that every day. William Shatner is the voice of the Overseer, and honestly I thought we were about...