'Residue': Film Review

Familiar psychological thriller tropes are infused with strong doses of social commentary in Lauren Fash's debut feature, which recently received its world premiere at the Frameline Film Festival. Depicting a woman's efforts to find her missing child, Through the Glass Darkly occasionally gets lost in its own murkiness.

The Brooklyn Dodgers, American neo-Nazis and Chicago-area Holocaust survivors all figure prominently in Mighty Ira, a film that pays tribute to a generation of free-speech advocates through one man's story. Now in his 80s, Ira Glasser served as executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union from 1978 to 2001, and he took the reins expecting to spend most of his time addressing matters of racial justice.

Silly, overstuffed and as sweet as anything Adam Sandler has done, Hubie Halloween is a full jack-o'-lantern in which the chocolates you hoped for far outnumber the butterscotch tooth-breakers.

There's no doubting why Totally Under Control, a doc about a pandemic whose end is nowhere in sight, would be released —first in drive-ins, then VOD, then on Hulu —in the weeks leading up to the presidential election: Directors Alex Gibney, Suzanne Hillinger and Ophelia Harutyunyan believe, as all fact-valuing people do, that the current administration has fared so badly in 2020 that a new one must be brought in to clean up the mess.

Also Read: Regal Cinemas and Cineworld Movie Theaters to Close All US, UK Locations This WeekWe open with an interviewee who will provide some of the most damning testimony along the way – Dr.

A heartfelt if uneven story of letting go and misdirected emotional energy, Paul Shoulberg's Ms. White Light imagines a young woman who has no social skills whatsoever unless the person she's talking to is at death's door.

There is a scene in the documentary “Time” that captures a woman on the phone trying to speak to a judge's clerk. She's put on hold.

After cutting his teeth on award-winning commercials and earning festival exposure with short films, Emmanuel Osei-Kuffour Jr. makes a solid feature directing debut with the absorbing mind-bender Black Box.

For many westerners who keep up with current events, Jamal Khashoggi is remembered mostly as a victim, a name from headlines two years back. The Saudi-born journalist, at the time of his death a columnist for The Washington Post and an American resident, walked into the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on October 2, 2018, to collect some documents related to his upcoming marriage.

Even without yet having seen all five of the original films in Steve McQueen's riveting Small Axe anthology for Amazon and BBC, which surveys two decades of West Indian experience in London, it seems appropriate that the series concludes with a story of Black resistance embodied in the determination of one idealistic man.

Also Read: Facebook Criticizes Netflix Doc 'The Social Dilemma' for 'Distorted View' of Social Media IssuesThese scenarios wouldn’t work if it ever felt like Kirsten was exploiting her father, but this is one of those documentaries that is its own making-of featurette, so we see the conversations between director and subject, where she lovingly explains what’s going to happen and brings him into the process of production.These behind-the-scenes moments only underscore the brilliance of what

Also Read: 'Nomadland' Wins Audience Award at Toronto Film FestivalNikolaj proposes that they test out a theory from Norwegian psychiatrist Finn Skårderud, which suggests that man’s blood-alcohol level is actually 0.5% too low, and that a small but steady intake of alcohol during work hours would help people reach peak performance.

Watch Video: David Oyelowo Chose 'The Water Man' as His Directorial Debut Because of His Love for 'The Goonies'Armed with a map and some intel from mortician Jim (Alfred Molina, having a very good time here), Gunner hires Jo (Amiah Miller, “War for the Planet of the Apes”) to be his guide into the woods.

For a movie about a lepidopterist, The Dark Divide is awfully entertaining. (There will now be a brief pause while you look up the word "lepidopterist.") Now that you know the term refers to people who study butterflies and moths, we can continue this review of this film based on nature writer Robert Pyle's book Where Bigfoot Walks: Crossing the Dark Divide.

Until his death in 1989 at the age of 74, not even his wife or adoptive children knew that jazz pianist Billy Tipton had been anything other than a cisgender man. According to No Ordinary Man — a new documentary about Tipton’s legacy as a transmasculine icon — the musician became fodder for daytime talk shows and supermarket tabloids shortly after his death, with Oprah Winfrey and her also-rans prying into the marriage between Tipton and his common-law widow Kitty Kelly.

Imagine the Pizzagate guy was the main character in a movie. Then imagine that guy was played by Aaron Eckhart, with Tommy Lee Jones playing his conspiracy theorizing, podcasting accomplice.

Two sisters from a Northern Irish town close to the border with Eire, played by Nika McGuigan and Nora-Jane Noone, feel the long shadow of both the Troubles and their own troubled past when they're reunited after a long estrangement in British-Irish co-production Wildfire.

There's a heady, hypnotic interlude midway through Steve McQueen's dreamy celebration of Black community and culture, Lovers Rock, when Janet Kay's 1979 hit "Silly Games" plays out on the turntable and is taken up by the people crammed into the suburban London living room where a house party is being held. For a full five minutes they continue singing a cappella — the women in particular — their voices matched by the ecstasy of their swaying bodies.

Also Read: Sofia Coppola, Pedro Almodovar and Orson Welles Doc Added to New York Film Festival LineupWhile there’s always a sense that Walsh is enough of an innate politician to always be aware of Wiseman’s camera without ever acknowledging it – even in more intimate settings, he always talks like someone making sure he can’t be misquoted – he brings a real personal touch to the job, whether he’s relating to those veterans and their need for counseling and outreach by sharing stories of his own

Todd McCarthy Watching Lovers Rock is akin to going to see Romeo and Juliet and only staying through the first act, to departing a basketball game after the first quarter, to sipping the soup and skipping the rest of the meal. A mere wisp of a thing, Steve McQueen’s 68-minute feature, the only fictional section of a five-film anthology called Small Axe about London’s West Indian community between the late 1960s and 1980, steeps you in the atmosphere and music of the latter date.