posted Tuesday, September 28, 2021
A student project abruptly forces an emotionally stunted high school English teacher to confront his demons—past and present—taking him on a powerful journey of connection and redemption in Language Arts. A poignant family drama that connects us all in the universal need to love and be loved. High school English teacher Charles Marlow (Ashley Zukerman; Young Charles, Elliott […]
posted Friday, September 24, 2021
Man in the Field profiles pioneering American multimedia artist and chef Jim Denevan, revealing the personal and circumstantial struggles behind his myriad and mysterious artistic gifts. As Jim battles to overcome an onswell of mental illness in his family, he creates a body of inimitable work. His canvases are twofold: he makes land art, epic geometric formations. […]
posted Friday, September 24, 2021
THE EYES OF TAMMY FAYE is an intimate look at the extraordinary rise, fall and redemption of televangelist Tammy Faye Bakker. In the 1970s and 80s, Tammy Faye and her husband, Jim Bakker, rose from humble beginnings to create the world’s largest religious broadcasting network and theme park, and were revered for their message of love, acceptance and prosperity. Tammy Faye was legendary for her indelible eyelashes, her idiosyncratic […]
posted Friday, September 24, 2021
The breathtaking, generation-defining Broadway phenomenon becomes a soaring cinematic event as Tony, Grammy and Emmy Award winner Ben Platt reprises his role as an anxious, isolated high schooler aching for understanding and belonging amid the chaos and cruelty of the social-media age. Based on: The stage musical by Steven Levenson, Benj Pasek & Justin Paul. […]
posted Monday, September 20, 2021
What’s all theBUZZ about? Here’s what we caught at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), and recommending that you catch at at theatre or via a streaming service, in no particular order. Memory Box: Echoes of 9/11 This documentary collects accounts of 9/11, recorded in the months after the attacks, and present-day testimonials from the […]
posted Friday, September 17, 2021
Film Movement Plus invites home audiences back to school – film school, that is – with a curated selection of works from the award-winning filmography of one of the forefathers of the American independent film movement with THE ALEXANDRE ROCKWELL COLLECTION. Coming on the heels of his latest acclaimed theatrical release, SWEET THING, the collection, launching on […]
posted Friday, September 17, 2021
Saint-Narcisse is the latest film from Bruce LaBruce, Canada’s reigning “King of Kink.” It follows Dominic, a young man with a fetish… for himself. Nothing turns him on more than his reflection, with much of his time spent taking Polaroid selfies. When his loving grandmother dies, he discovers a deep family secret: his lesbian mother […]
posted Friday, September 17, 2021
Marco spends his days applying for jobs online and waiting for Dana, his pregnant girlfriend, to get home. Strange post-it notes mysteriously appear around the apartment with cryptic warnings. A mechanic texts and calls him with menacing messages from an old non-functioning cell phone. The walls close in and tensions build between Marco and Dana’s […]
posted Friday, September 10, 2021
Death Drop Gorgeous is a story about a dejected bartender and an aging drag queen who fight to survive the eccentric and hostile nightlife of a corrupt city, as a masked maniac slaughters young gay men and drains them of blood. An ode to the wicked work of John Waters, and festival fave – Seattle Queer, […]
posted Tuesday, August 31, 2021
A Wake is a riveting family drama from Director Scott Boswell (The Stranger in Us) that’s centered around secrets, lies, and true love. Driven by a desperate need to understand their loss, the children in a religious family clash with their parents as they prepare for the wake of their brother, Mitchel. Teenage Mason desperately tries […]
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