Wildland – AFI Film Festival 2020
Wildland is unlike any female coming-of-age story you have seen. Director Jeanette Nordahl’s debut feature film eschews every single girl coming-of-ageContinue Reading
Category: AW Kautzer’s Film Review
Apples – AFI Film Festival 2020
Apples is about a virus ravaging the citizens of Greece and the world. It’s not COVID-19 but rather a sudden affliction ofContinue Reading
Film Review: Synchronic (2020)
Benson and Moorhead’s Synchronic continues the directing duos growth as storytellers and visualist. Synchronic is another adventure in the world that Justin BensonContinue Reading
Wander Darkly – AFI Film Festival 2020
Sienna Miller and Diego Luna anchor this meditation on life, death, and love. Writer/Director Tara Miele’s Wander Darkly is a metaphysical loveContinue Reading
Out of the Blue – AFI Film Festival 2020
Long out of circulation, Dennis Hopper’s Out of the Blue, comes roaring back. Restored and ready to be rediscovered. Dennis Hopper as aContinue Reading
Hopper/Welles – AFI Film Festival 2020
Two legends, infante terrible both have one of the best conversations put to celluloid during the time they were makingContinue Reading
Film Review: Borat Subsequent Moviefilm (2020)
Sascha Baron Cohen revives one of his most beloved and reviled characters of his career; Borat Sagdiyev. The surprise sequel isContinue Reading
Uncle Frank – AFI Film Festival 2020
Alan Ball’s Uncle Frank is a family drama with a huge dollop of compassion and understanding. Anchored by great work by theContinue Reading
Sound of Metal – AFI Film Festival 2020
Grounded by an amazing performance by Riz Ahmed, Sound of Metal is one of the best dramas of the year. The dramaticContinue Reading
Wolfwalkers – AFI Film Festival 2020
Tomm Moore with co-director Ross Stewart completes his Irish Trilogy of Animated Folktales with the beautiful Wolfwalkers. Though Wolfwalkers tells a familiar taleContinue Reading