Memory, the first American drama from Mexican auteur Michel Franco tells a story of connection, loss, and yes, memory. Featuring wonderful performances from Jessica Chastain and Peter Sarsgard as Silvia and Saul, the film begins when Silvia goes to her high school reunion. When Saul follows her home after she leaves early, she finds him…
Uproar chronicles Josh’s adventure to establish an identity for himself, which goes against the values of his country wrestling. Here, Apartheid-era South Africa’s rugby team has been touring New Zealand, provoking protests across the country. It has also been forcing its citizens to reckon with their own systematic racism that has put its indigenous population…
Nyad is the feature directorial debut of Oscar-winning documentary duo, Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin (The Rescue and Free Solo). In their latest film to look at people who are insane enough to try to achieve the physically impossible, the death-defying directors bring on Annette Bening and Jodie Foster to recreate the story of…
The new documentary, Summer Qamp, takes a look at Camp Fyrefly, a camp in southern Alberta that is comprised entirely of people from the LGBTQ+2S community. The film aims to see how the experience helps them to come to terms with their identity and be affirmed in their journey to both discover and supplant who…
Ellen Burstyn sits on her sofa and refuses to move. That’s it. This is the absurd little concept fueling the debut feature of Nicalas Larsson debut feature, Mother, Couch (with an epic title btw). To try to get Mother (Ellen Burstyn) off the couch, David, Gruffudd, and Linda come together at a closing furniture store….
Ava DuVernay’s return to feature film sees merge her urgent artistic voice and the social issues that drive it into a cohesive feature that serves both as a nonfiction investigation into caste systems and also what drives a woman to explore it. Based upon the book Caste: The Origins of Our Discontent that’s written by…
In many ways, Asteroid City feels like a direct clapback to the A.I generated still-life of Wes Anderson’s style. Anderson reveals in his new film that it’s a lot more complicated than that and he wrestles with very real human questions that an A.I would never bother to ask. The film has meta-layers with a…
Fresh out of prison, wandering English archaeologist Arthur reconnects with his wayward grave-robber group who live off looting Etruscan tombs and cemeteries buried with treasure. However, Arthur isn’t really interested in this life anymore. As a result, his search is more connected to discovering what might be beyond our world and where his beloved Beniamina…
Seeking escape and adventure, two friends find their travels stumped by a lack of funds and prospects. To pay off their foreign exchange fees, the two join a ‘work-to-travel’ program which lands them in a remote Australian community. At first, they take it as a chance to discover a new part of the country and…
What happens if you take the Broadway musical–what has often been considered America’s most wholesome and charming form of theatre–but it was raunchy and proudly queer? That’s what Dicks: The Musical tries to answer in its short but song-filled comedy. The film follows Craig and Trevor (Aaron Jackson and Joshua Sharp, who also wrote the…
