Friday, January 24, 2025

Festivals

Movie Review (Adelaide Film Festival): ‘Black Box Diaries’ is a Towering Achievement in Documentary Filmmaking

Director: Shiori ItôWriter: Shiori ItôStars: Shiori Itô Synopsis: Journalist Shiori Ito investigates her own sexual assault, seeking to prosecute the high-profile offender. Her quest becomes a landmark case, exposing Japan's outdated judicial and...

Movie Review (Miami Film Festival): ‘September 5’ is a Pulse-Pounding Thriller On a Dark Day in History

Director: Tim FehlbaumWriters: Moritz Binder, Alex David, Tim FehlbaumStars: Peter Sarsgaard, John Magaro, Ben Chaplin Synopsis: During the 1972 Munich Olympics, an American sports broadcasting crew finds itself thrust into covering the hostage crisis...

Movie Review (SCAD Savannah Film Festival): ‘The Piano Lesson’ is a Southern Gothic Haunting

Director: Malcolm WashingtonWriters: Virgil Williams, Malcolm Washington, August WilsonStars: Samuel L. Jackson, John David Washington, Danielle Deadwyler Synopsis: Follows the lives of the Charles family as they deal with themes of family legacy and...

Movie Review (SCAD Savannah Film Festival): ‘Memoir of a Snail’ is Full Of Heartache, Tears, and Hope

Director: Adam ElliotWriters: Adam ElliotStars: Kodi Smit-McPhee, Eric Bana, Sarah Snook Synopsis: A bittersweet memoir of a melancholic woman called Grace Pudel - a hoarder of snails, romance novels, and guinea-pigs. The story is...

Movie Review (Adelaide Film Festival): ‘Nightbitch’ Falls Short of True Transgression

Director: Marielle HellerWriters: Marielle Heller, Rachel YoderStars: Amy Adams, Scoot McNairy, Arleigh Snowden Synopsis: A woman pauses her career to be a stay-at-home mom, but soon her domesticity takes a surreal turn. “I feel like...

Movie Review (SCAD Savannah Film Festival): ‘The End’ is Full of Hits and Misses

Director: Joshua OppenheimerWriters: Joshua Oppenheimer, Rasmus HeisterbergStars: Michael Shannon, Tilda Swinton, George MacKay Synopsis: A Golden Age-style musical about the last human family. In a future where the world on the surface has ended...

Movie Review (NYFF 2024): ‘The Damned’ Basks in the Silence of the Battlefield

Director: Roberto MinerviniWriter: Roberto MinerviniStars: Jeremiah Knupp, René W. Solomon, Timothy Carlson Synopsis: In the winter of 1862, during the Civil War, the U.S. Army sends a volunteer company to patrol the uncharted...

Movie Review (NYFF 2024): ‘Nickel Boys’ is a Daring, Moving Masterpiece 

Director: RaMell RossWriters: RaMell Ross, Joslyn BarnesStars: Ethan Herisse, Brandon Wilson, Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, Hamish Linklater, Fred Hechinger, Daveed Diggs Synopsis: Elwood Curtis' college dreams are shattered when he's sentenced to Nickel Academy, a...

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