Top End Wedding is a fun and entertaining romantic comedy that takes advantage of the sights that Northern Australia has to offer. Imagine you’re engaged to get married but soon learn that your mother left your dad. This is what happens to Lauren Ford (Miranda Tapsell). Newly engaged to Ned Pelton (Gwilym Lee), the two of them fly to Northern Australia in order to start the process of wedding planning. Well, the Top End of…
"Sundance 2019: Top End Wedding"Tag: Sundance Film Festival
Corporate Animals finds a way to hysterically comment on workplace situations during a team-building exercise that just happens to go wrong. The film sucks us in with a commercial for the Incredible Edible Cutlery Company. The company’s mission is to rid the planet of disposable plastic cutlery. While it’s not a bad idea in theory, it’s easier said than done. Run by CEO Lucy Vanderton (Demi Moore), she’s hoping that a corporate retreat in the New Mexico desert…
"Sundance 2019: Corporate Animals"
Late Night is a hysterically funny film that puts the spotlight on women in a comedy industry on television that is predominantly male. Katherine Newbury (Emma Thompson) is the host of Tonight with Katherine. In the film’s universe, Katherine the only late night talk show host who is female and has her own show. She’s won many awards over the years and the film starts as the Brit becomes the first foreigner to take home…
"Sundance 2019: Late Night"
N. Scott Momaday: Words from a Bear is a new American Masters documentary celebrating the life of the 1969 Pulitzer Prize-winning Native American author. To say that N. Scott Momaday is a celebrated storyteller would not be an understatement. The 1960s were an interesting time in America. I think this goes without saying. The fact that he took home the Pulitzer Prize for his work says even more because this was a guy who wrote…
"Sundance 2019: Words from a Bear"
To The Stars is a beautifully crafted coming-of-age story set in 1960s rural Oklahoma and continues the trend of deeply affecting films shot in black and white. Iris Deerborne (Kara Hayward) doesn’t have the best home life or school life. It’s no wonder that she chooses to spend so much time by herself at the nearby pond. Between her mother being an alcoholic and everyone teasing her at school, it’s not the best life. Hell,…
"Sundance 2019: To The Stars"
Maiden tells the inspiring true story of skipper Tracy Edwards and the first female crew who made history by entering the Whitbread Round the World race. It comes as no surprise that the misogyny that Tracy Edwards and her crew dealt with in the late 1980s still exists today. While the male competitors were asked the “sensible sports questions,” no reporters dared to ask the Maiden crew these questions. Nobody gave them a chance. As soon…
"Sundance 2019: Maiden"
Raise Hell: The Life and Times of Molly Ivins profiles the late political columnist who was willing to raise hell but also have some fun along the way. There is no better way to present Molly Ivin’s story than by allowing Ivins herself to tell it like it is. While Ivins may no longer be with us, she is able to tell her story by way of archival footage. There’s a lot of archival footage…
"Sundance 2019: Raise Hell: The Life and Times of Molly Ivins"
When Maria Linde dares to have an opinion in Dolce Fine Giornata amid a changing society, she manages to suffer the consequences. Maria Linde (Krystyna Janda) is a poet who appears to have the best of everything as she lives with her husband in Italian province of Tuscany. She did’t always live in Italy. Both of her parents survived the Holocaust and she was born in Poland. She has a loving family and a Nobel…
"Sundance 2019: Dolce Fine Giornata"
Aquarela is a visually stunning and immersive experience that needs to be experienced on the biggest screen possible with the best sound system. This is a film that captures H20 in both its liquid form of water and solid form of ice. It also captures idiots driving on the ice and thinking that they can get away with it. These people are extremely lucky that there are people out there willing to dig your car…
"Sundance 2019: Aquarela"
MERATA: How Mum Decolonised The Screen profiles filmmaker Merata Mita and the influential role she played in being a pioneer of Indigenous cinema. Despite my being a film buff, I was very unfamiliar with the filmmaker’s story going into the film. This changed upon viewing the documentary–which runs under 90 minutes. After her death in 2010, her son, Hepi, wanted to find out what it was that led her to champion Indigenous cinema. Without her,…
"Sundance 2019: MERATA: How Mum Decolonised The Screen"