Hulks are red, Captains are Blue,
Marvel’s comeback remains long overdue.
Author: Josh
Urgent and essential, No Other Land will make you want to throw rocks.
For his entire life, second-generation Palestinian activist Basel Adra has lived under threat of the permanent erasure of his small West Bank village in the Masafer Yatta region by the Israeli military. Declared a region of importance for training, the series of small cliffside villages has suffered multiple generations of destruction and resistance.
Sundance 2025 Notebook
Sundance 2025 is in full-swing in Park City, Salt Lake City, and — beginning from January 30–February 2, 2025 — online.
In Presence, Steven Soderbergh spins a ghost story through the eyes of the ghost
In a series of single cooped-up takes Steven Soderbergh gives us a ghost’s eye view of a family slowly coming undone.
Nickel Boys is an audacious act of interpretation
Nickel Boys (2024 | USA | 140 minutes | RaMell Ross) RaMell Ross’s exquisitely-shot close first-person perspective makes for an audacious act …
Josh’s Favorite Films of 2024
As the year winds to a close, we’re sharing lists of our favorite films we’ve seen (so far).
Babygirl is the year’s most electric Christmas movie
A quarter century after Eyes Wide Shut, Halina Reijn puts Nicole Kidman again in a position to serve up a prickly and fun exploration of the dynamics of control, desire, and submission (also at Christmastime).
Seattle Film Critics Society announce 2024 Winners
This morning, across their social media channels, The Seattle Film Critics Society (counting a couple The SunBreak contributors among its membership) announced winners for the 2024 SFCS Awards, honoring the year’s best in film. At the top of the nominations heap: a pleasantly surprising win for Coralie Fargeat’s satirical body horror sensation The Substance. Sean Baker’s sex-worker cinderella to cross-country chaos comedy Anora took home the most awards; Dementus from Furiosa was crowned the Villain of the Year; and on the local front Rainier: A Beer Odyssey was named the best Pacific Northwest Finally, film and local programmers/directors/filmmakers/champions of short filmmaking here and afar, Megan Leonard and Carlos A.F. Lopez, were honored with a well-deserved Special Citation for their tireless efforts.
Seattle Film Critics Society announce 2024 nominees
This morning, across their social media channels, The Seattle Film Critics Society (counting a couple The SunBreak contributors among its membership) announced nominations for the 2024 SFCS Awards, honoring the year’s best in film. At the top of the nominations heap: Brady Corbet’s VistaVision festival stunner The Brutalist (releasing later this month) and two desert-set blockbusters Denis Villeneuve’s sci-fi sequel Dune: Part Two and George Miller’s post-apocalyptic prequel
The winners will be announced on December 16th.
Daniel Craig delves into a jungle of addiction and desire in Luca Guadagnino’s Queer
Thought if anyone could make the smack-addled writings of William S Burrows romantic it would have to be Luca Guadagnino, but alas.