‘The End of Us’ is the first pandemic rom-com | SXSW review
The End of Us follows a couple who unfortunately breaks up just as the world locks down in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic How it Ends try to make a relatable pandemic-set romantic-comedy, instead the overwhelming feeling is "too soon." It’s oddly fitting that The End of Us, directed by Henry Loevner and Steven…
‘Nomadland’ finds people on the margins | movie review
Nomadland follows a widow as she tours the west living out of her van with just her fellow nomads for help, company, and strength Quick cut: Chloé Zhao makes Nomadland's melancholic but hopeful story of nomads traversing the American West a stunningly complex character study of life on the margins of society. It’s often drilled…
Streaming on Hulu: ‘Love & Basketball’
Two decades later, Love & Basketball is still one of the most empathetic romances and sports drama ? This recommendation for Love & Basketball was originally published in our newsletter. Sign up here. Happy Thursday! If you live in New York City, there will be an emergency rally on Saturday in Washington Square Park protesting the violence…
‘Minari’ grapples with the American dream | Sundance movie review
Minari follows a Korean-American family as the set down roots and builds a farm in rural Arkansas in the 1980s Minari is a beautifully told family drama about chasing the American dream and all the costs and beauty that entails. Terrifically acted by the entire cast, Minari is perhaps the best movie to come out…
SUPER LTD Acquires North American Rights to Theo Anthony’s ‘All Light, Everywhere’
All Light, Everywhere is a provocative and timely documentary that won Sundance Film Festival Special Jury Prize for Non-Fiction Experimentation NEW YORK, NY | February 17, 2020 – SUPER LTD, the boutique division and incubator from NEON, have acquired North American rights to Theo Anthony’s All Light, Everywhere, which made its World Premiere to critical acclaim in the U.S. Documentary Competition section at the 2021…
‘Prisoners of the Ghostland’ is Nic Cage’s ballsy Mad Max | Sundance movie review
Nicolas Cage is on a mission to return a missing woman in the Japanese Wild West post-apocalyptic hellscape that is Prisoners of the Ghostland Prisoners of the Ghostland is easily the wildest film of Nicolas Cage's epic career. Mixing elements of Escape from New York and Mad Max: Fury Road with acid, the result is…
‘Judas and the Black Messiah’ is essential cinema | Sundance movie review
Judas and the Black Messiah is an electrifying and contemplative biopic about Black Panther party chairman Fred Hampton and the plot to bring him down Of the movies that have come out after last year's Black Lives Matter protests, Judas and the Black Messiah is perhaps the most essential. A raw and in the trenches…
‘Coming Home in the Dark’ is a perfect midnight feature | Sundance movie review
Coming Home in the Dark follows a family on a road trip in the New Zealand mountains that is isolated and tormented by an unknown assailant While Coming Home in the Dark doesn't bring anything new to the thriller genre, it is an anxiety-inducing mean and lean entry that is the perfect kind of Midnight…
‘Mass’ tries to find the end of grief | Sundance movie review
Mass watches as four people come together to talk through an old wound that has been preventing them from moving on with their lives Mass is a stunningly raw and emotional journey through trauma, grief, and healing featuring four tour-de-force performances that'll leave you breathless. Four people gather in a small room in the back…
‘John and the Hole’ needed more hole | Sundance movie review
John and the Hole follows a teen named John who holds his entire family captive in a deep concrete hole in the middle of the woods. John and the Hole as an intriguing enough premise holds you for some of its running time, but its lack of commitment to the black comedy or biting satire…