Often overlooked at Oscar® time are the three short film categories. One of those categories is Documentary Short Film. These films offer us insights into the world around us. They may be focused on controversial topics or on uplifting stories or just meeting interesting people. Some of the short films can be seen on various…
France’s selection for the 2024 Oscars absolutely serves. No, for real. The characters literally serve food and that’s the bulk of this film. If you find cooking boring or don’t have a particular enjoyment of food outside of it providing fuel to your body, it’s fair to say this film probably won’t be for you….
Sometimes, the worst place to be is between the now and ‘not yet’. In Suncoast, we meet Doris (Nico Parker), a teenager who’s helping her mother, Kristine (Laura Linney) care for her dying brother. As they place him in palliative care, Doris meets an eccentric activist named Paul (Woody Harrelson). Having dealt with the death of…
For Sony, 2024 is the year that they can finally step up their superhero game. With three projects in theatres over the next 12 months and Marvel’s only other offering in the form of Deadpool vs. Wolverine, the SPUMC (Sony Pictures’ Universe of Marvel Characters) is finally front and center at the box office. After mostly…
Even after 40 years, it’s still worth cutting Loose. For those who have forgotten, Footloose tells the story of Ren McCormick (Kevin Bacon), a young city-boy whose family moves to a highly conservative small town in the the American Mid-west. Soon after arriving, Ren falls hard for Ariel (Lori Singer), the minister’s daughter who hides her wild side…
Set 45,000 years ago, Out of the Darkness follows a group of early humans who are desperately looking for a new area to settle. Added to the group is Beyah (Safia Oakley-Green), an outsider who wants to join their tribe but creates conflict with their domineering leader. When they begin to realize that there is a bloodthirsty…
I’ve always had a soft spot in my heart for a good romance film. Often cookie cutter in their style and structure, there’s also usually a sweetness within them that makes them fun. (It’s this sort of simple structure that has made them the gold standard of Hallmark holiday films.) Even so, because of their…
The Promised Land is a David and Goliath story… but only if David’s assistant and father’s servants played a major role. Promised Land introduces Captain Ludvig Kahlen (Mads Milkkensen), a man coming out of his service to the Danish King in Germany that has succeeded his rank as a peasant and aims to make himself…
Sometimes, the way back to life means rebuilding everything. The directorial debut of Zelda Williams, Lisa Frankenstein tells the story of Lisa Swallows (Kathryn Newton), a misunderstood teenager who’s grieving the murder of her mother. After her father remarries, she finds herself thrown into a new family, with a new mother and sister, and a new school…
Based on the novel Erasure by Percival Everett, American Fiction puts Jeffrey Wright front and center as Thelonious “Monk” Ellison, a novelist-turned-professor who has been critically praised but popularly ignored. Ellison has always been righteously opposed to the racial tropes he sees in published fiction and Hollywood productions about Black life in the United States,…
