#SPOTTED: WILLOW SMITH X DE’WAYNE IN TORONTO FOR “NHL HERITAGE CLASSIC”
Willow Smith and Hockey? Who would've thought? Punk-Pop princess Willow Smith, daughter of Film and Music royalty Will and Jada Pinkett Smith, was just in-town (or west of it!) to appear at the pre-game concert for the NHL HERITAGE CLASSIC. The match took place at Hamilton's Tim Hortons Field between the Toronto Maple Leafs and Buffalo Sabres today. Legend Wayne Gretzky was there as an analyst for TNT Network. The pre-show concert saw Smith perform outdoors amidst the snowfall, streamed live ...
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#SXSW: “SOFT & QUIET”
By Amanda Gilmore
Blumhouse Thriller Soft & Quiet might go down as one of the most uncomfortable to watch films of SXSW ’22.
The Film follows Emily (Stefanie Estes), a White Supremacist elementary school teacher, who organizes a club mixer of like-minded women. When they decide to move the meeting to Emily's house, they stop at the local store to pick up refreshments. When two minority sisters enter, the white supremacist club targets them. This interaction sends the club into a ...
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#SXSW: “TO LESLIE”
By Mr. Will Wong
Director Michael Morris (Better Call Saul, 13 Reasons Why) is known primarily for his work in Television, but makes his feature debut at SXSW with TO LESLIE. The Texas-set Drama centers on Leslie (Andrea Riseborough), a single mother who has made some poor life choices and after winning the lottery some years ago, blowing it all away. She lost custody of her son and has bottomed-out, going from stranger to stranger, turning to alcohol as her sources of comfort. She's ...
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#SXSW: “LINOLEUM”
By Amanda Gilmore
Nothing is working out for Scientist Cameron Edwin (Jim Gaffigan). His wife has filed for divorce and he’s just been fired from his own television program. When a satellite falls from orbit and crashes into his dysfunctional family home, Cameron seizes the opportunity to fulfil his dream of becoming an astronaut by re-building it into a rocket ship. His wife and daughter believe he's experiencing a Midlife Crisis, however, when surreal events begin happening around him, ...
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#SXSW: “THE GIRL FROM PLAINVILLE”
By Mr. Will Wong
Based on true events, Hulu Series THE GIRL FROM PLAINVILLE dramatizes the events leading to Michelle Carter's conviction for involuntary manslaughter of boyfriend Conrad Roy. The Screenplay by Liz Hannah and Patrick Macmanus is inspired by the Esquire article of the same name by Jesse Barron. The then-18-year-old had been struggling with his mental health and commit suicide in 2014 after it was learned that Carter had encouraged him to do so.
In the lead role is the ...
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#SXSW: “THE BLIND MAN WHO DID NOT WANT TO SEE TITANIC”
By David Baldwin
Jaakko (Petri Poikolainen) is blind and suffers from Multiple Sclerosis. He was not always this way, but now spends his days in pain and confined to a wheelchair. He chats daily with his girlfriend Sirpa (Marjana Maijaala), who he has only ever spoken to online and by phone. When she receives some bad news, Jaakko decides he must go to see here – even if the solo trip takes three hours and will involve multiple forms of transportation and relying on the kindness of ...
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#SXSW: “FIRE OF LOVE”
By Amanda Gilmore
Director Sara Dosa brings us the mesmerizing Documentary Fire of Love at SXSW '22. It follows real-life couple Katia and Maurice Kraff who were intrepid French Scientists, who spent their lives trying to understand the mystery of volcanoes. Through their work, they captured some of the most spectacular footage of volcanoes ever recorded.Audiences may flock to Fire of Love for the volcanoes, but they will be swept away by the unexpected love story ...
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#SXSW: “SISSY”
By Mr. Will Wong
Writer-Director Duo Hannah Barlow and Kane Senes arrive at SXSW with Australian Horror-Comedy SISSY. The Film which taps into horrors for millennials in some ways echoes some of the tone we saw in Emma Seligman's SHIVA BABY, but delivers fully on the violence and gore as much as it does with biting humour.
The Film centers on Cecilia (Aisha Dee), who by chance reunites with her childhood BFF Emma (Barlow). Emma is about to get married and invites Cecilia to her ...
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#SXSW: “WECRASHED”
By Mr. Will Wong
Eight-part Mini-Series WECRASHED recounts the rapid rise and fall of WeWork, which started in 2010 under Adam Neumann (Jared Leto) and Miguel McKelvey (Kyle Marvin). The Company gave new startup technology companies, among other new enterprises, the ability to acquire flexible workspaces. We get a glimpse of the egos that governed the WeWork, namely Adam and his wife Rebekah (Anne Hathaway), which led the company to face great scrutiny in its unconventional business ...
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#SXSW: “SHINING GIRLS”
By Mr. Will Wong
Based on Lauren Beukes' acclaimed Novel THE SHINING GIRLS, Apple TV+'s SHINING GIRLS delivers on the twisty thrills of its source material. The genre-bending Sci-Fi-Thriller series stars Elisabeth Moss as Kirby Mazrachi, who falls victim to a vicious attacker. Just avoiding death, she survives to hunt her assailant down. While this is a premise we've heard before, what makes this story interesting is that the time-travelling attacker, Harper Curtis (Jamie Bell) has a ...
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