#SUNDANCE: “UNCLE FRANK”
Review by Amanda Gilmore for Mr. Will Wong
In 1973, Beth (Sophia Lillis), her uncle Frank (Paul Bettany) and his longtime partner Wally (Peter Macdissi) drive from New York City to their rural South Carolina hometown to attend the family patriarch’s funeral.
Alan Ball’s delicate touch aids this heartfelt road movie about a man accepting himself and revealing who he is to his family. At the core is the moving performance from Bettany who reveals Frank’s fears hiding underneath his cool, ...
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#SUNDANCE: “WORTH”
Review by Amanda Gilmore for Mr. Will Wong
The Film tells the true story of Attorney Kenneth Feinberg (Michael Keaton) who led the 9/11 Victims Compensation Fund.
Worth is a sensitive Drama that centers on a question impossible to answer: how much is a life worth? Director Sara Colangelo shows us a different 9/11 story that focuses on the survivors and their families just as much as it does Feinberg. Within the prime narrative, there are scenes that show the unfair class hierarchy government ...
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#SUNDANCE: “PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN”
Review by Amanda Gilmore for Mr. Will Wong
During the day Cassie (Carey Mulligan) appears to be an unambitious drifter, however, she reveals her hidden vendetta at night when she hunts down men who cross her.
Director-Writer Emerald Fennell brings her slick film style, she commonly uses as a show runner on Killing Eve, to this knock-out film. Fennell’s Script is tight and filled with richly-texturized dark, tender and humorous scenes. Even more impressive is the ample layers she’s given ...
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#SUNDANCE: “THE GLORIAS”
Review by Amanda Gilmore for Mr. Will Wong
Director Julie Taymor adapts Gloria Steinem’s Autobiography “My Life on The Road” for the big screen.
Taymor brings her signature style to the screen in telling Steinem’s extraordinary life. Instead of telling a conventional Biopic Taymor breaks up Steinem’s life into four age groups. Those four Glorias sit on a bus that continues to ride and ask each other questions about their own life. This unique decision separates this linear biopic ...
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#SUNDANCE: 2020 SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL DAY FOUR SIGHTINGS
Sightings were a bit more on the quiet front today, but some exciting names were out and about at Sundance earlier.
THE NEST - An American Entrepreneur's life takes a twisted turn after he moves to an English Country Manor.
Jude Law
NINE DAYS - A recluse conducts a series of interviews with human souls for a chance to be born.
Bill Skarsgård
Winston Duke
RELIC - A daughter, mother and grandmother are haunted by a manifestation of Dementia, ...
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#SUNDANCE: “DINNER IN AMERICA”
Review by Amanda Gilmore for Mr. Will Wong
Dinner in America is an energetic anthem for Punk Rockers.
Writer-Director Adam Rehmeier has made a fast-paced fun film about two young people from opposite worlds. However, their one similarity is their love for Punk-Rock. The characters are easy to fall in love with due to their wonderfully written character traits and the committed performances from Emily Skeggs and Kyle Gallner.
Dinner in America screens at Sundance on Fri, Jan. 24th at 9:30 ...
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#SUNDANCE: 2020 SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL SIGHTINGS – WILL FERRELL, MILA KUNIS, NICHOLAS BRAUN, KERRY WASHINGTON, LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA, WILMER VALDERRAMA, AUBREY PLAZA, SARAH GADON + MORE
The star sightings continue to pour-in and our Amanda Gilmore doesn't disappoint! See some of the talent she spotted out and about at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival, Day Three!
DOWNHILL is about a couple married with kids, who barely escape an avalanche on a trip, only to be forced to confront finally how they feel about one another.
Will Ferrell
FREESTYLE LOVE SUPREME centers on "pre-Hamilton" Lin-Manuel Miranda and the improv Hip-Hop movement he was part of, ...
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#SUNDANCE: “COME AWAY”
Review by Amanda Gilmore for Mr. Will Wong
Come Away tells an alternative origin story for Peter Pan and Alice from Alice in Wonderland.
Although the Film, starring Angelina Jolie, David Oyelowo, Michael Caine and Gugu Mbatha-Raw is targeted towards children, there are many themes that resonate with adults. Director Brenda Chapman’s primary theme throughout is grief with focus on contrasting what grief looks like within children and adults. Chapman also blends an even mix of actuality and ...
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#SUNDANCE: DAY TWO SIGHTINGS – RACHEL BROSNAHAN, LEA THOMPSON, KELLY ROWLAND, AMY RYAN, STANLEY TUCCI, KYLE GALLNER + MORE!
It was a star-studded Day Two at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival and our Amanda Gilmore was out and about capturing some of that starpower! See who she spotted and which Films did the rounds today.
DINNER IN AMERICA centers on a Punk Rocker and a young woman obsessed with his band. They fall in love unexpectedly and go on a journey together in mid-west America's decaying suburbs.
Kyle Gallner
Griffin Gluck
Lea Thompson
WORTH takes place ...
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#SUNDANCE: “EMA”
Review by Amanda Gilmore for Mr. Will Wong
Pablo Larraín’s eighth film follows married couple Ema (Mariana Di Girolamo) and Gastón (Gael García Bernal) after they return their adopted son to child services, due to him setting their house on fire with Ema’s sister inside.
As with every Larraín film, Ema is a visual feast for the eyes. This time around he examines how guilt affects a marriage as a whole and as separate individuals. When he looks into Ema and Gastón’s individual guilt ...
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