#SUNDANCE: “KAJILLIONAIRE”
Review by Amanda Gilmore for Mr. Will Wong
Miranda July is back with her latest film about a Con Artist family who taught their 26-year-old daughter (Evan Rachel Wood) the art of scamming and stealing.
This is a quirky Film centred on the need to feel love and care from parents. Wood does a tremendous job of projecting the yearning for warm words and loving touches from her detached parents. She does this while being withdrawn and contained. Her scene partner is the mesmerizing and ...
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#SUNDANCE: “DREAM HORSE”
Review by Amanda Gilmore for Mr. Will Wong
In the attempt to find meaning in her life, Jan (Toni Collette), breeds a racehorse in her tiny Welsh town and enters him in once race after another.
This is a hilarious and heart-warming underdog story filled with quintessential British humour. Although the story is quite conventional it’s the way Horse Racing is presented and the brilliant performance from Collette that separates it from the rest. Overall, Director Euros Lyn brings Jan’s true ...
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#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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#COOKING: “RAM-DON” FROM BONG JOON HO’S “PARASITE” RECIPE
Many of you by now have seen Bong Joon Ho's masterpiece PARASITE and I'm sure like me, you've been programmed to salivate at the words "RAM-DON". The Korean dish (also known as "Jjapaguri") made of a combination of instant noodles, topped with Sirloin Beef is a metaphor about class in the Film. In one scene we see Park Yeon-kyo (played by Yeo-jeong Jo) rushing to return home early, calling her maid Kim Chung-sook, played by Hye-jin Jang, and tasking her with very little time to make her ...
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#FIRSTLOOK: NEW ARTWORK FOR DISNEY’S “MULAN”
In celebration of Chinese New Year, some new Artwork for eagerly-anticipated Disney's MULAN!
Synopsis:
Acclaimed filmmaker Niki Caro brings the epic tale of China’s legendary warrior to life in Disney’s “Mulan,” in which a fearless young woman risks everything out of love for her family and her country to become one of the greatest warriors China has ever known. When the Emperor of China issues a decree that one man per family must serve in the Imperial Army to defend the country from ...
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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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