Promising Young Woman ★★★★ Letterboxd Score Direction By: Emerald Fennell Starring: Carey Mulligan, Bo Burnham, Adam Brody, Alison Brie Focus Features, In Theatres April 17th, 2020 This. One. Is. Heartbreaking. Nothing prepares you for just how shocking the end is. Yeah, I'm starting backward for this one. Everything that leads up to the ending is …
Month: January 2020
Spree, An Ambitiously Creative Film About How Social Media F$%#s With Our Minds, Sundance Film #5
Spree ★★★★ Letterbox Score Direction By: Eugene Kotlyarenko Starring: Joe Keery, Sasheer Zamata, David Arquette, Kyle Mooney, Mischa Barton, Josh Ovalle No plans for distribution, yet. Spree is an ambitious satire on how large of an impact social media can play in our mental health. Kurt Kunkle (Joe Kerry) is a social media reject that …
Kajillionaire, Sundance Review
Kajillionaire Direction By: Miranda July Starring: Evan Rachel Wood, Gina Rodriguez, Richard Jenkins, Debra Winger Music By: Emile Mosseri ★★★★★ Letterboxd Score I gave this movie a perfect five stars because I loved every moment of it. It is a bit early to say just how this movie might be received by the general public, …
Zola, How Tweets Turned Into A Movie Sundance Film #3
ZOLA ★★★★1/2 Letterboxd Score Direction By: Janicza Bravo Written By: Janicza Bravo and Jeremy O. Harris Starring: Taylour Paige, Riley Keough, Nicolas Braun, Colman Domingo A24 Pictures In Theatres Soon... All it took was 140 characters and some imagination. "Zola", a story loosely based on true events that were entirely inspired by this twitter thread. This is …
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The Assistant, Sundance Film #2
The Assistance ★★★1/2 Letterboxd Score Direction by: Kitty Green Starring: Julia Garner, Matthew MacFadyen, Mackenzie Leigh, Kristine Froseth Bleecker Street Productions, In Theatres January 31st, 2020 Right after watching “The Climb” we learned that the ONLY ROAD leading to the Sundance Mountain Resort was closed, due to a roll over accident. We had not planned to …
The Climb, Sundance Film #1
The Climb ★★★1/2 Letterboxd Score Direction by: Michael Covino Starring: Michael Covino, Kyle Marvin Sony Pictures Classics, theatrical release in March My first film of Sundance 2020 was "The Climb" and it was really just a foreshadow of what was to come. The following days were nothing short of an uphill struggle, very fulfilling, but one …
Bradley Cooper’s Next Project Will Be A Netflix Original
Bradley Cooper's newest project as first reported by deadline.com has been acquired by Netflix. A film about the life of Leonard Bernstein. A highly anticipated project, the follow-up to his successful film "A Star Is Born" was originally being developed at Paramount. This adds to the ever-growing catalog of Netflix originals. Netflix, having two …
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Sundance 2020: My Top Picks
I am grateful that I live in Utah. Not only do we have incredible scenery, so many outdoor activities, and four seasons. We have the largest independent film festival in the world, Sundance. The festival first started in 1978 when the head of Wildwood, Sterling Van Wagenen and John Earle wanted to attract more filmmakers to …
Bad Boys For Life (Review)
Bad Boys For Life ★★★★ Letterboxd Score Direction by: Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah Screenplay: Chris Bremner, Peter Craig, and Joe Camahan Starring: Will Smith, Martin Lawerence, Vanessa Hudgens, Alexander Ludwig Sony Pictures, In theatres January 17th We have this obsession with seeing things reimagined from the past. Everything from our past is seemingly …
Lulu Wang Should Have Been Nominated For Best Director
In today's social climate we are continually faced with the question of moral values. What we find right, or wrong and the fight for justice of those miss or underrepresented. This is most apparent in media; social, television, and definitely film. The public as seemingly majority have become uneasy at the underrepresentation of women in film. …
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