Right when you thought it was safe to go back in the water, Sally Aitken gives fans a documentary of Valerie Taylor in Playing with Sharks. Listen up, Jaws fans. This film should certainly capture your attention. I know you watch Jaws every summer because I do the same thing, too. After all, the Steven Spielberg film is a cinematic classic. What Playing with Sharks does is take viewers where the Jaws bonus features (sorry,…
"Sundance 2021: Playing with Sharks"Month: January 2021
Son of Monarchs holds its international premiere this Sundance as the winner of this year’s Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize. A Mexican biologist, Mendel (Tenoch Huerta Mejía), calls New York home for the moment but he returns home upon his grandmother’s death. Family relationships have changed since leaving for New York. You can sense some bitterness coming from older brother Simon. The two of them were left as orphans following their parents death in…
"Sundance 2021: Son of Monarchs"
Rita Moreno: Just A Girl Who Decided To Go For It is an eye-opening documentary exploring the life of EGOT winner Rita Moreno. Rita Moreno is among the select few to receive the EGOT. She also is a recipient of a Kennedy Center Honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and many more. The list of honors goes on and on. But awards are not all there is to her story. She persevered in the industry…
"Sundance 2021: Rita Moreno"
Sally Aitken spoke to Solzy at the Movies earlier this week about her new documentary, Playing with Sharks, launching at Sundance. How honored were you to have Playing with Sharks selected for Sundance? Sally Aitken: Are you kidding? It’s the email that you don’t want to go to your junk mail, right?!? It’s such a great thrill for all of us. A lot of us are going to be watching from home. Is there some…
"Sundance 2021: Sally Aitken talks Playing with Sharks"
CODA is a crowd-pleasing film that will bring about tears and laughter by the end in telling a heartwarming story on screen. I regret that I almost didn’t even watch this film on Opening Night. In glancing at the comedy listings, I saw CODA listed and the rest is history. But in all fairness, this isn’t only a comedy but mix of drama and coming-of-age story, too. At the end of the day, it’s still…
"Sundance 2021: CODA"
Summer Of Soul (…Or, When The Revolution Could Not Be Televised) makes for a rocking good time while revisiting the late 1960s. Please stay through the credits for a clip at the end of the film. A lot was taking place in the summer of 1969. Man went to the moon when the Apollo 11 mission made history. A happening took place at Woodstock. But at Mount Morris Park, the Harlem Cultural Festival was taking…
"Sundance 2021: Summer of Soul"
These Days is a half-hour pandemic-set comedy but whether it will be appealing to audiences or not is something that remains to be seen. Mae (Marianne Rendón) is a professional dancer so the pandemic has not been kind in terms of work. We don’t know much about her when we first meet her. What we do know is that she’s trying the whole online dating over Skype. Guy #1 is an epic disaster. Seriously, you…
"Sundance 2021: These Days"
The Dig is one of those pre-World War II films that is going to end up going under the radar but Carey Mulligan is phenomenal. Edith Pretty (Carey Mulligan) is a widow living on a Sutton Hoo, Suffolk farm. This farm just happens to be the home of a few burial mounds. Could the mounds have a treasure buried inside? This is what Edith suspects and she hires amateur archaeologist Basil Brown (Ralph Fiennes) to…
"The Dig: Carey Mulligan Is Phenomenal"
A Stone in the Water is a gripping psychological thriller in Oregon that finds one woman getting into something far bigger than she knows. Following a brief prologue to set the tone, we’re introduced to Alex Parker (Melissa Fumero). We don’t know much about her other than she’s on the run from Frank (David Fumero). Viewers will come to learn she’s pregnant. One thing leads to another and Alex soon heads to live with Martha (Bonnie Bedelia). …
"A Stone in the Water: A Gripping Thriller"
HBO Max announced the list of films, series, and specials that are coming and leaving the streaming service during February 2021. A pair of Warner Bros. theatricals will premiere both in theaters and on HBO Max on the same day. First up is Judas and the Black Messiah on February 12. The film tells the story of Bill O’Neal (LaKeith Stanfield), who infiltrates the Black Panthers per FBI Agent Mitchell (Jesse Plemons) and J. Edgar Hoover…
"HBO Max: Coming and Leaving in February"