Set in the year 2036,?Outside the Wire?tells the story of Lt. Thomas Harp (Damson Idris), a drone pilot with a commitment to weighing the odds. When Harp engages his drone in an active war zone in the face of a direct order from his commanding officer, he is transferred to the Ukraine under the command…
I recently had the chance to take part via Zoom in a roundtable interview with Paul Greengrass to discuss his film News of the World. The film tells the story of Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd, an itinerant newsreader, who is tasked with returning Johanna, a young girl raised by the Kiowa, to her relatives. For…
Latvia?s official entry for the Best Foreign Feature Oscar is Blizzard of Souls from director Dzintars Dreiberg. The film is based on a book by Aleksandrs Grins, which was banned in the Soviet Union. The film has been the most watched film in the history Latvian cinema. The story follows Arturs (Oto Brantevics), a young…
Films have to ability to take us into unknown worlds?maybe through science fiction, or a setting in a different culture or time period. When I?m in a theater (ah, those were the days!) and the lights go down I feel a bit of excitement about where we will travel to today. The Reason I Jump,…
Unless you?ve been through it, you don?t know. Written by Kata Weber and directed by her husband, Kornel Mundruzco, Pieces of a Woman tells the story of Martha and Sean Carson (Vanessa Kirby and Shia LeBeouf), a young Boston couple who are excited for the imminent arrival of their first child. However, after their home birth goes…
?Don?t most hotels have the courtesy to leave you in the drawer? Jesus Christ!? Sometimes, I miss those all-night bull sessions I would have with roommates in college. We would delve into deep questions about God, morality, and the meaning of life. We would sometimes pick a perspective just for the sake of seeing where…
Some stories and the worlds they bring to us are too big for a single film. Sometimes that means trilogies or ongoing sequels without end (like Star Wars). But for Steve McQueen to bring us a vision of the world he grew up in, it required the Small Axe anthology. This is a series of…
When you write about the afterlife, you?re definitely wading into dangerous waters. Produced by Dana Murray and directed by Pete Docter,?Soul?tells the story of Joe Gardner (Jamie Foxx), a middle-school band teacher who yearns for something more. Passionate about jazz music, Gardner wants to be on stage yet he feels stuck. After his sudden death,…
Remember that time that Michael Jordan and Bugs Bunny lead the most ridiculous rag-tag team of basketball players in a game for the fate of the world? It’s hard to believe it’s been twenty-five years since Jordan and the Looney Tunes joined forces to defeat the? Nerdlucks-turned-Monstars in a game of basketball for the fate…
It fairly safe to say that 2020 has been? memorable. From the pandemic to marches for social justice, the year that was has provided enough drama to last a lifetime. As such, there?s no question that it deserved an appropriate cinematic send-off. As the 1st film of 2021, it?s possible that Shadow in the Cloud may have managed to…
