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Currently Reading R#J Review: Confined to Digital Screens, Romeo and Juliet Update Feels More Like an Experiment Than a Movie
Carey Williams bold technological gamble finds some contemporary relevance but eschews narrative purpose for its unique setting.
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Director: Carey Williams
With: Camaron Engels, Sydney Graham, Moe Irvin, RJ Cyler, Siddiq Saunderson, Francesca Noel, Maria Gabriela de Faria, Diego Tinoco, Russell Hornsby.
Running time: Running time: 91 MIN.
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There are instances in director Carey Williams’ boldly experimental yet wearisome “R#J” that genuinely grasp the essence of romance, identity and existence in the age of social media. Those fleeting but relatable moments feel like major triumphs in Williams’ Gen Z-centric adaptation of “Romeo and Juliet,” a movie that unfolds almost entirely on electronic screens. And you get a taste of them enough times
Sundance 2021: What Has Sold So Far, From ‘CODA’ to ‘Flee’ (Photos)
Other big deals were made for films such as “Passing,” “Cryptozoo” and “Ailey”Brian Welk | February 4, 2021 @ 9:35 AM Last Updated: February 4, 2021 @ 8:17 PM
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How will the pandemic affect the sales market at Sundance this year? Virtual or not, experts who have spoken with TheWrap agree that the market will be robust at the 2021 festival. Although many films theatrical plans remain uncertain, streamers and indie distributors alike are in the hunt for content, and we ve already seen a record-breaking sale that trounced last year s record. The good news is that there are still plenty of buzzy titles looking for homes, and a few even pre-sold before the festival began.
Working for a porn festival will teach you that people have their limits. The Stranger's amateur porn festival, HUMP Film Fest, is in its 17th year. We've accepted films from nearly every kink. We infamously screened a submission where someone shit a solid stick of butter, made pancakes with that butter, and then ate the shit-butter-pancakes. When we tell people that we'll accept anything into the festival, we mostly mean it. But there have always.
A tragedy that takes its time dragging you through the coals of moral suffering, Wild Indian is a revelatory feature debut from writer-director Lyle Mitchell Corbine Jr. that is as painful as it is darkly poetic. Taking place over more than a thirty-five-year span, it follows Anishinaabe boys Makwa and Ted-O as they grow into adulthood after covering up a brutal incident from their youth. Though they both hide the act, it's Makwa, who later.
In the Earth Review: Treat Yourself to a Shot of COVID-Inspired Wheatley Weirdness In the Earth Review: Treat Yourself to a Shot of COVID-Inspired Wheatley Weirdness
It s somehow fitting that a horror helmer whose career kicked off with viral videos has gone and made a pandemic movie that infects the id.
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Running time: Running time: 100 MIN.
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Last year, Ben Wheatley released a remake of Alfred Hitchcock’s “Rebecca” in which his heroine suffers a trippy newlywed’s nightmare. She’s married to Armie Hammer, following him through the halls of Manderley, and the hallway carpet turns to crawling ivy, grabbing her ankles and pulling her down toward hell. This hallucination stands out in the otherwise traditional film, but it’s one of the few moments in “Rebecca” where we sense the filmmaker’s personality coming through. That freaky interlude might as well have been a trailer for Wheatl