Mongrel Media and Mr. Will want to give Readers a chance to win passes to an Advance Screening of SHORTCOMINGS. Screenings take place August 2, 2023 in Toronto and August 3, 2023 in Vancouver.
Synopsis:
Ben, a struggling filmmaker, lives in Berkeley, California, with his girlfriend, Miko, who works for a local Asian American film festival. When he’s not managing an arthouse movie theater as his day job, Ben spends his time obsessing over unavailable blonde women, watching Criterion Collection DVDs, and eating in diners with his best friend Alice, a queer grad student with a serial dating habit. When Miko moves to New York for an internship, Ben is left to his own devices, and begins to explore what he thinks he might want.
Starring: Justin H. Min, Sherry Cola, Ally Maki, Debby Ryan, Tavi Gevinson, Sonoya Mizuno, Jacob Batalon, Timothy Simons
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Mongrel Media release SHORTCOMINGS in theatres across Canada August 4, 2023
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Great news! Elevation Pictures will be releasing AFTER YANG in Canada, after its raves at both Cannes and Sundance recently. See the new Trailer below.
Synopsis:
In a world where robotic children are purchased as live-in babysitters, a father and daughter attempt to save the life of their robotic family member, Yang, who has become unresponsive.
From writer/director Kogonada and starring Colin Farrell, Jodie Turner-Smith, Justin H. Min, Malea Emma Tjandrawidjaja, Sarita Choudhury, Clifton Collins Jr. and Haley Lu Richardson.
AFTER YANG is coming soon.
(Photo/video credit: Elevation Pictures)
By David Baldwin
After premiering at Cannes this past July, celebrated Writer/Director Kogonada’s second feature AFTER YANG finally makes its North American debut. It takes place in the near future, where families live with sentient AI android helpers and companions. When Yang (Justin H. Min from The Umbrella Academy), the AI helper for Jake (Colin Farrell), Kyra (Jodie Turner-Smith) and young Mika (Malea Emma Tjandrawidjaja), malfunctions and breaks down, the family is distraught. Jake bought him “certified refurbished”, so he cannot just get him repaired quickly. When his attempts at fixing Yang uncover that he has been recording memories, it sets Jake off on an existential journey he did not expect.
AFTER YANG is a quiet, contemplative film that examines loss and grief, at the same time as it hones in on joy and humanity. The Science-Fiction elements are a mere conduit for Kogonada (adapting Alexander Weinstein’s short story) to be able to hop in and out of dreams and memories. There is some feeling hovering around the power of nostalgia in some instances, but it feels more like the kind of heady, introspective material that makes you rethink your own memories. The rhythmic, fever dream nature of the Film will be off-putting to some, and spiritually hypnotic to others. Fair warning to the naysayers though – you will miss out on some of the most majestic production design and incredibly expansive use of colour to hit the screen in a long time.
The entire Cast is magnificent, with Farrell adding another terrific, meditative performance to his on-going career renaissance, and Turner-Smith and Tjandrawidjaja bringing a plethora of emotion and beauty to every scene they appear in. Min is great in his small role, as is Haley Lu Richardson who plays the mysterious Ada. And while I will not give away the circumstances, AFTER YANG contains one of the greatest post-modern dance scenes of the past decade. Maybe of all time. Expect many delightful memes and gifs to appear online once this wonderfully picture sees wide release.
AFTER YANG screens at Sundance as follows:
PREMIERE Jan 21 1:45PM EST Available Until Jan 21 4:45PM EST
SECOND SCREENING Jan 23 10:00AM EST Available Until Jan 24 10:00AM EST
Fans are thrilled for the upcoming third season of wildly-popular Netflix series THE UMBRELLA ACADEMY! In fact, in 2020 the second season of the Series based on the series of Graphic Novels by My Chemical Romance‘s Gerard Way, was the sixth most streamed series on Netflix! The Series centers on an adopted family of dysfunctional superheroes who are brought together to solve the mystery behind their father’s death, also banding together in the face of an imminent apocalypse!
The third season commenced production in the Greater Toronto Area February, though the Cast arrived shortly after the new year, and just wrapped last night. Ten new episodes on their way hopefully soon!
We were lucky enough to spot Cast returning and new around town including Justin Min (Ben Hargreeves), David Castañeda (Diego Hargreeves), Ritu Arya (Lila Pitts, Diego‘s love interest) and new addition Genesis Rodriguez (Sloane Hargreeves).
See our Snaps!
The Cast were amazingly kind to stop for snaps on their way out of the City. And fun fact, did you know that Castañeda actually is part-Chinese? He told me his grandfather’s last name was actually Wong, meaning we well could be related!
Details to follow on the upcoming third season. We cannot wait!
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