Sundance Review: To Live Die And Live
With his latest film, To Live and Die and Live, writer and director Qasim Basir returns to filmmaking after a four-year hiatus. In his latest film, Basir introduces us to Muhammad (Amin Joseph), a handsome, strong Hollywood director. Muhammad tries to navigate through a rebuilt Detroit’s gorgeous and alluring landscapes.
Sundance Review: A Thousand and One
Singer Teyana Taylor gives an honest and heartfelt lead performance in A Thousand and One from Focus Features. The writer & director of the film, A.V. Rockwell, makes her debut with the film that follows unapologetic and free-spirited Inez (Teyana Taylor), who kidnaps six-year-old Terry (Aaron Kingsley Adetola) from the foster care system.
Anna Kendrick delivers a career best performance in Alice, Darling
Academy Award nominee Anna Kendrick delivers another strong performance in Alice, Darling from Lionsgate. Kendrick portrays the titular character; a woman pushed to the breaking point by her psychologically abusive boyfriend, Simon (Charlie Carrick).
Maybe I Do is a charming romantic comedy
Television writer and Oscar nominee Michael Jacobs brings together a quadrant of Hollywood veterans for his directorial debut Maybe I Do from Vertical Pictures.
Sarah Polley delivers another winner in Women Talking
Sarah Polley continues to make a name for herself as a director with her latest film, Women Talking. The film adapts Miriam Toews’s 2018 novel of the same name, which tells the true story of an insular, ultraconservative Mennonite community in Bolivia.
Missing is a crowd pleasing popcorn thriller
On the heels of the successful Searching and Run, creatives Sev Ohanian and Aneesh Chaganty continue in the suspense genre with Missing from Sony Pictures Releasing.
Death Knot is an ok horror debut
Cornelio Sunny dabbles in J-horror for his directorial debut in Death Knot from Well Go USA Entertainment. After the sudden suicide of their estranged mother, Hari (Cornelio Sunny), and his sister Eka (Widika Sidmore), return to their hometown to put their matriarch’s affairs in order.
Night Train is a quick actioner
Danielle C. Ryan is back in action with Night Train from Saban Films. Shane Stanley directs the film, while his frequent collaborator CJ Walley pens the script. La La Land teamster and single mother Holly McCord (Danielle C. Ryan) is driven to extreme measures to save her son’s life.
Tom Hanks saves the routine A Man Called Otto
Kicking off the 2023 viewing season, Netflix offers viewers a different streaming experience with their newest series, Kaleidoscope.
Sure to divide audiences and critics, Babylon is a mess
Oscar Winner Damon returns to cinemas with his fourth film in Babylon from Paramount Pictures. Before the opening credits, we meet Manuel “Manny” Torres (Diego Calva), a Mexican immigrant working odd jobs in the thriving silent film industry and aspiring filmmaker.
Brendan Fraser delivers a career best performance in The Whale
Love him or hate him, filmmaker Darren Aronofsky teams with comeback kid Brendan Fraser for his eighth feature film, The Whale from A24. Playwright Samuel D. Hunter pens the screenplay as an adaption of his same-titled play.
Puss In Boots: The Last Wish is delightfully fun for the family
Under the direction of Joel Crawford, Antonio Banderas makes a voice return to one of his most beloved characters in Puss In Boots: The Last Wish. Paul Fisher pens the film script, which marks a return to the Shrek universe for the first time in more than a decade.