Max Richter’s Sleep
This documentary explores Sleep by minimalist composer Max Richter, designed to be performed over night to a snoring audience. Beginning and ending with an open air performance in LA’s Grand […]
Monthly Archives: January 2021
How to Train Your Dragon
Some very Scottish vikings live in a constant state of war with the dragons breathing down their necks, until the chief’s son (Jay Baruchel) encounters a peaceful dragon and proves […]
The Hitcher
Whether drinking Monster or watching Quiz Call, we’ve all done stupid things to stay awake – but none more stupid than Jim (C. Thomas Howell) in 1986’s The Hitcher, who […]
Soul
After falling down a manhole, music teacher and jazz pianist Joe (Jamie Foxx) is late for his dream gig, both in terms of being dead and in the sense of […]
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
It is tragic how good Chadwick Boseman is in Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, a 2020 drama based on the eponymous “Mother of the Blues” (Viola Davis) who became one of […]
Final Destination
The story of some people racing against time to stop death, Final Destination is now entering its 21st year as the most pointless premise ever conceived. Final Destination is an […]
Carlito’s Way
Kooky ex-con Carlito (Al Pacino) is released from prison, vowing to live life within the law from now on. Unfortunately for him he gets drawn back into crime like Rocky […]
Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
A year after they flew to Paris without their son at Christmas, the world’s worst parents do it again, this time jetting off to Florida with their impractically large extended […]
Resident Evil: Afterlife
As if our collective intelligence wasn’t already being insulted on a daily basis by press conferences about a deadly virus delivered by a shambling humanoid doberman, the Resident Evil franchise is […]
Moana
Moana (newcomer Auliʻi Cravalho) is next in line to be chief on her tribe’s small island. But when food shortages loom she goes against her family’s cautious customs in search […]
