Film festival favorite (and award-winner)
“The Strong Ones” (Breaking Glass Pictures) continues a new wave of Chilean cinema that forthrightly and empathetically explores LGBTQ themes. In Omar Zúñiga Hidalgo’s smart and sexy debut feature, the romance between grad student Lucas (Samuel González) and fisherman Antonio (Antonio Altamirano) unfolds with ardor and passion, but the film never shies away from exploring the class disparity between the two characters or the assumptions that each might make about the other.
Also available: Shot in Cuba, the based-on-a-true-story drama
“Mambo Man” (Corinth Films) features musical performances by several members of the Buena Vista Social Club; when a talented pianist gives birth to a deaf son in
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What’s new to VOD and streaming this weekend
Including reviews of A Glitch In The Matrix, Falling, Malcolm & Marie, Rams and Greenland By Norman Wilner
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OW critics pick what’s new to streaming and VOD for the weekend of February 5. Plus: Everything new to VOD and streaming platforms.
Falling
(Viggo Mortensen)
Mortensen’s first feature as a writer/director finds the actor shaping a simple father-son story into a powerful meditation on compassion at any cost. It’s not perfect, but it’s powerful. Mortensen plays John, a gay man who’s taken a week off to bring his ailing father Willis (Lance Henriksen) out west from his rural New York farm. Willis is suffering from dementia and rapidly deteriorating, and John is looking to make things easier on the old man – but Willis’s illness has only amplified the fury, misogyny and homophobia that drove his family away decades earlier. Falling is rough in the way that first films can be, but even when something doesn
Good Day Atlanta viewer information February 5, 2021
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Atlanta’s Fernbank Museum shows a different side to insects
Photographer Levon Biss created the portraits by using thousands of incredibly detailed images taken through various microscopic lenses.
An insect invasion at Atlanta’s Fernbank Museum: Fernbank Museum has just unveiled Microsculpture: The insect portraits of Levon Biss, and is displaying the exhibit in the most appropriate place possible outdoors. Eleven jaw-dropping insect species from around the world are featured in the exhibit, which has been placed throughout Fernbank’s Nature Gallery in WildWoods allowing families to explore the museum’s elevated walkway while stopping to take in the massive, high-resolution portraits created by Biss. Those portraits include full-color images of the Orchid Cuckoo Bee, Amazonian Purple Warrior Scarab and more and, of course, there’s no telling what native insects visitors might encount