When the wild calls, you answer. In Disney’s remake of the classic novel, The Call of the Wild tells the story of Buck, a rambunctious dog who’s life is turned upside down when he is suddenly uprooted from his home and transplanted to the Yukon. Forced to join a mail-delivery dog sled team, Buck soon… [Read More]
Slamdance 2020: Day 3
More from Slamdance, the film festival “By Filmmakers, For Filmmakers” currently taking place in Park City, Utah, down the street from the more well known Sundance Film Festival. On September 11, 2015, Iraq War vet Jon Hancock, set out from his home in Maryland to walk to Camp Pendleton in California. But it was not… [Read More]
Slamdance 2020: Day 2
More from Slamdance, the film festival “By Filmmakers, For Filmmakers” currently taking place in Park City, Utah, down the street from the more well known Sundance Film Festival. Is Falun Gong a peaceful religion or a dangerous cult? The Chinese government would like us to believe the latter. Ask No Questions, from Jason Loftus and… [Read More]
Slamdance 2020: Day 1
Welcome to Slamdance. While most of the world is familiar with the Sundance Film Festival, they may not have heard of Slamdance, a renegade festival also held in Park City, Utah, the same week. Slamdance’s mantra is “By Filmmakers, For Filmmakers”. The Slamdance Festival seeks to highlight “raw and innovative filmmaking.” Among filmmakers who showed… [Read More]
Free Color: Breaking Down Barriers Through Brightness
Free Color documents the late years of 94-year-old Master of Color, Carlos Cruz-Diez. Working as a Kinetic and Optical Artist, Cruz-Diez seeks to shatter the limits of technology in order to achieve his life-long dream of color-without-form. By recruiting a team of innovators from across disciplines to help bring his dream into reality, Cruz-Diez is relentless… [Read More]
Lucy in the Sky: Failure to Launch
Lucy in the Sky tells the story of Lucy Cola, an astronaut who returns home to Earth after a length mission. Although her life consists of a loving relationship with her husband, Drew (Dan Stevens), and a job that she loves, Lucy feels restless and struggles to reintegrate herself into her daily routine. Looking for the… [Read More]
Building a Snowman: 1on1 with Joe Izzo (ABOMINABLE)
Dreamworks’ Abominable tells the story of young Yi (Chloe Bennet) who inadvertently discovers a yeti on her rooftop. Naming him Everest after the famed mountain region that he calls home, Yi and her two friends embark on an epic quest to reunite the magical creature with his family. However, along the course of the perilous journey,… [Read More]
6.11 Carving Up Justice in KNIVES OUT
In KNIVES OUT, Rian Johnson draws the viewer into a world of diabolical murder and twisted intrigue. When aging mystery novelist Harland Thrombey kills himself after his 85th birthday, the police initially rule his death a suicide. However, after private investigator Benoit Blanc is brought in to question the cantankerous clan, he suspects that Thrombey’s… [Read More]
Marriage Story: Love Unraveled
Marriage Story examines the fallout of Charlie (Adam Driver) and Nicole’s (Scarlett Johansson) failed marriage as they begin divorce proceedings. Though both of them want to ‘make this easy’ and ‘do what’s best for their son’, civility slowly begins to disintegrate by adding lawyers and looking out for their own interests. When Nicole moves from New… [Read More]
Knives Out: Cut-Throat Family Politics
Written and directed by Rian Johnson (Looper), Knives Out follows the clues behind the death of Harlan Thrombey (Christopher Plummer), a wealthy author who is murdered after his birthday party. Called in by a mysterious benefactor, Detective Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig) is called in to help unravel the mystery amongst Harlan’s quirky relatives, including Harlan’s daughter,… [Read More]
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