Sorry We Missed You, from legendary British chronicler of social class struggles Ken Loach, is a potentially now-too-timely “wrenching, intimate family drama …
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Bacurau is a trip into Brazil’s Weird Wild West
Bacurau (2109 | Brazil | 132 minutes | Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles) Bacurau opens with a pan in from space …
Roundtable: Movie Club in the Time of Coronavirus
It’s been a while since we’ve checked in with Team Sunbreak; so I thought it was a good time to convene one …
On Screen: Virtual Cinema Blooms
As Covid-19 distancing gets really real, more and more distributors are picking up the model launched by Kino Lorber last week to …
On Screen: Quarantine Releases
With theaters closed everywhere now, studios great and small are finding a newfound sense of flexibility regarding the timing of video on …
SIFF cancels 2020 Festival amid COVID-19 Pandemic
In the category of “shocking yet not surprising”, the Seattle International Film Festival cancelled the entirety of its 2020 festival amid concerns …
On Screen: Streaming Edition
It seems like the dreaded novel coronavirus is striking everywhere, including the movies. Releases of major film franchises have followed in Bond’s …
On Screen: The Way Back, Wendy, Onward
Yikes! It’s a city is under siege by coronavirus; so be careful out there. Note that out of an abundance of caution, …
Emma. is an adaptation as handsome and clever as its heroine.
Emma. (2020 | USA | 124 minutes | Autumn de Wilde) Into each generation comes a film adaptation of Emma, Jane Austen’s …
On Screen: Nordic Lights, Children’s Film, John Sayles
It seems that we’re emerging out of the “Dumpruary” season for mainstream releases, in which studios toss the duds of their development …