Although you would be forgiven for thinking that 2020 only really had three months of notable film releases before everything went to hell in a handbasket, the movie industry took to the internet with most of their releases to varying levels of success with many studios selling their films to the various streaming giants from …
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Anita Sokolowska and Katarzyna Sawczuk in Fierce Recently released on Netflix, this Polish drama about Marta (Katarzyna Sawczuk), nicknamed Fierce by those who know her, follows her as she enters a famed singing competition in the hopes of meeting her long absent father Olo (Maciej Zakoscielny), a one hit wonder rock star and member of …
Kristen Stewart and Mackenzie Davis in Happiest Season Every year the christmas season brings about the inevitable slew of Lifetime and Hallmark festive movies. Even Netflix has gotten in on the game in recent years. The film you can watch not only to bask in seasonal cheer but also point out the glaring production errors …
Alfre Woodard in Clemency Clemency is all about control, or the lack of it. For prison warden Bernadine Williams (Alfre Woodard) its about controlling the variables in a world full of people looking to upset the status quo. For death row inmate Anthony Woods (Aldis Hodge) its about regaining some of the control that has …
Natalia Dyer in Yes God Yes Nobody wants to talk about sex, at least with the people that might actually know something about it. Throw on top of that devout Christian values and a educational system unwilling to treat it with the respect and normalcy it deserves, instead considering it sacreligious and sacred in equal …
LaKeith Stanfield and Issa Rae in The Photograph Right from the start of Stella Meghie's The Photograph you are met with an explosion of colour and passion, a warm and sensual feel and a flawed and captivating love story about wanting different things at different times and giving up. However the 70s set story this …
Robert Forster, Riki Lindhome and Jim Cummings in The Wolf of Snow Hollow The setting is always the same, the small secluded alpine town with the blistering snow storm. The cast of characters from the old time sheriff to the collection of scared townsfolk. The winter horror isn't anything new but in writer/director Jim Cummings …
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Roxanne Scrimshaw and Nichola Burley in Lynn + Lucy Framed around the fracturing friendship of titular college classmates Lynn (Roxanne Scrimshaw) and Lucy (Nichola Burley), writer/director Fyzal Boulifa's feature debut is a story of evolution and escalation where the same schoolyard squabbles are painted in a more harmful light, one that runs the risk of …
Taylor Swift in Folklore: The Long Pond Studio Sessions I've never written a review for a concert film, it felt derivative in a way. Packed out stadiums and very little context does not a movie make. However The Long Pond Studio Sessions playthrough of Swift's first album of 2020 Folklore feels different to the conventional …
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Jessica Chastain in Ava With the upcoming release of The 355, Jessica Chastain is looking to make a name for herself in action movies and more than that, she is looking to rock a male occupied genre and breath fresh life into it. Ava is not how that is done. Directed by Tate Taylor off …
