#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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#BOXOFFICE: “BAD BOYS” TOO GOOD ONCE AGAIN FOR OPPOSITION
For a second straight week, BAD BOYS FOR LIFE is proving to be an exceedingly smart move from Sony Pictures, taking $28 million from 3,775 theatres. This brings its two week run to $111.6 million already domestically.
In second is Best Picture Contender 1917 with $14 million from 3,937 theatres for Universal Pictures, taking its tally to $102.1 million, its third weekend in wide release.
THE GENTLEMEN from Director/Writer Guy Ritchie debuts in third with $10.8 million for STX ...
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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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#SUNDANCE: “FALLING”
Review by Amanda Gilmore for Mr. Will Wong
Viggo Mortensen’s directorial debut follows the turbulent relationship between a father and son.
With Falling, Mortensen examines the strong bond between relatives even after they’ve become severed. The focus here is on the relationship between John (Mortensen) and his ill yet overtly profane father Willis (Lance Henriksen). The performances are outstanding, particularly Henriksen who plays a remarkably unlikeable character. Willis continuously ...
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#SUNDANCE: “CRIP CAMP”
Review by Amanda Gilmore for Mr. Will Wong
Crip Camp is an endearing Documentary about a camp in the 1970s that was for disabled people.
It starts out as a film depicting a camp that made its attendees feel like they had a place to belong but it turns into a call for civil rights. This is thanks to Directors Nicole Newman and Jim LeBrencht who use footage from the 1971 camp and civil rights marshes and bills those campers have passed throughout the years. Through current interviews with the ...
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#FIRSTLOOK: “ONWARD” (AND A BIT BACKWARDS): THE PIXAR VEHICLE EXPERIENCE
Those who attend the 2020 Canadian International AutoShow are in for a treat! Walt Disney Studios Canada will have an activation featuring a replica of the van seen in upcoming Film Pixar's ONWARD. The can, also known as Guinevere is that of the character Barley, who is voiced by Chris Pratt.
Fans will have a chance to take photos with purple Guinevere adorned with a Pegasus mural and crescent moon windows and on select days there will be a magician on-hand to performed tricks and illusions ...
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#FIRSTLOOK: NEW POSTER + TRAILER FOR “RUN THIS TOWN”
We've been thrilled to see RUN THIS TOWN for quite some time now! Here's a brand-new Poster and Trailer for the Film set against a backdrop of a Rob Ford-run Toronto.
Synopsis:
Naive, young Toronto newspaper reporter Bram (Ben Platt) finds himself doing desk work instead of breaking hard-hitting stories, until he accidentally finds scandalous information about the city's controversial mayor, Rob Ford (Damian Lewis). Bram attempts to pry information from Ford's aides, Ashley (Nina Dobrev) and ...
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