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If Anything Happens I Love You (2020) Short Film Review
If Anything Happens I Love You (2020) Directors: Michael Govier, Will McCormack Screenwriters: Michael Govier, Will McCormack It is often the case that the Oscars’ Animation Short Subject category throws up unique and interesting films, and in 2021 the standout is If Anything Happens I Love You from screenwriter-director duo Michael Govier and Will McCormack. Distributed…
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Sound of Metal (2021) Review
Sound of Metal (2021) Director: Darius Marder Screenwriters: Darius Marder, Abraham Marder, Derek Cianfrance Starring: Riz Ahmed, Paul Raci, Olivia Cooke, Mathieu Amalric, Chelsea Lee It may seem cliché, but the hardest moments in our lives are the ones that become our most defining. Although typically cinema would have us believe differently, these moments rarely…
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The Present (2021) Short Film Review
The Present (2021) Director: Farah Nabulsi Screenwriters: Farah Nabulsi, Hind Shoufani Starring: Saleh Bakri, Mariam Kanj, Mariam Basha Tackling issues regarding the border crossings in the middle east, and particularly the political and racial tensions that govern the crossings of the West Bank, Farah Nabulsi’s 24 minute drama nominated for Live Action Short at the…
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Do Not Split (2021) Short Film Review
Do Not Split (2021) Director: Anders Hammer A nominee for Documentary Short Subject at the 2021 Oscars, Do Not Split from Norwegian born journalist and documentarian Anders Hammer takes place across one of year of violent and impassioned protests in Hong Kong between 2019 and 2020, illustrating the efforts of the Hong Kong people attempting to rebel…
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Colette (2020) Short Film Review
Colette (2020) Director: Anthony Giacchino Subjects: Colette Marin-Catherine, Lucie Fouble So often, the offerings from the documentary form live and die by their subjects, and in 2021 Documentary Short Subject Oscar nominee Colette, director Anthony Giacchino has found one of the most engrossing subjects imaginable in Colette Marin-Catherine. A survivor of the Nazi occupation of…
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Hunger Ward (2021) Short Film Review
Hunger Ward (2021) Director: Skye Fitzgerald Imagine losing a child. It is the most unfathomable pain, the most incomprehensible of injustices. The guttural wailing of mothers who have just seen their children die is a sound you can never unhear, an explicit experience of grief that is unforgettable. In Yemen, a country torn to pieces…
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A Concerto Is a Conversation (2020) Short Film Review
A Concerto Is a Conversation (2020) Director: Kris Bowers, Ben Proudfoot Screenwriter: Ben Proudfoot In 2019, Peter Farrelly’s Green Book won Best Picture at the Oscars, controversy erupting around the film’s perceived whitewashing of black history and what the moment said of the contemporary United States. On the stage stood an assembly of primarily white men whose…
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Greyhound (2021) Review
Greyhound (2020) Director: Aaron Schneider Screenwriter: Tom Hanks Starring: Tom Hanks, Stephen Graham Tom Hanks takes to his extensive typewriter collection to pen the screenplay of the World War II action/drama Greyhound, released exclusively on Apple TV+. Greyhound is Hanks’ first outing in the writing chair since he wrote the screenplay for Larry Crowne alongside…
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A Love Song for Latasha (2020) Short Film Review
A Love Song for Latasha (2020) Director: Sophia Nahli Allison There is something so inherently poetic about Sophia Nahli Allison’s Oscar-nominated Documentary Short Subject A Love Song for Latasha. Something that imbues every scene with a sense of ethereal resonance. Perhaps it’s the soft spoken voiceover of those who knew Latasha, or the eccentrically designed…
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Godzilla vs Kong (2021) Review
Godzilla vs Kong (2021) Director: Adam Wingard Screenwriters: Max Borenstein, Eric Pearson, Michael Dougherty, Terry Rossio, Zach Shields Starring: Alexander Skarsgård, Millie Bobby Brown, Rebecca Hall, Brian Tyree Henry, Julian Dennison, Kaylee Hottle, Damián Bichir, Eliza González, Shun Oguri, Kyle Chandler, Lance Reddick, Hakeem Kae-Kazim It has all come down to this: the ultimate “let…