8 Film Festival Movies to Watch Out For thefrisky.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from thefrisky.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
23 movies you should check out at the 2021 Milwaukee Film Festival, which is all-online (yes, again) Chris Foran, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
For the first time in its 13-year history, the Milwaukee Film Festival is a spring thing.
Kicking off less than seven months after the 2020 festival ended, the 2021 film festival runs May 6-20. Just like last year s, it s exclusively online.
There are two ways to take in the movies showing as part of the festival: via Milwaukee Film s site, at
mkefilm.org/festival, and through apps available on Roku, Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV and Android TV. For an easy-to-follow guide, go to
Sarasota Film Festival: Top 10 movies to see this year heraldtribune.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from heraldtribune.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Scott Pilgrim vs. The World
(2010) turns his directing skills towards his debut documentary by exploring every single one of the albums made by the offbeat band Sparks. Why you must know this before heading into this musical epic is that these two tempestuous brothers, Ron and Russell Mael, have made 25 albums over a 50-year period. While Wright sets things up as their ultimate super-fan, he follows through two-fold by placing the countless interviews over numerous live performances. After hearing how much the band is loved by “Weird Al” Yankovic, Beck, Flea, Jason Schwartzman, Giorgio Moroder, Fred Armisen, Neil Gaiman, Jane Wiedlin, Björk, and ultimately Wright himself, one should have become an absolute devotee by the film’s 135-minute end.
Sundance from home: A virtual wrap on 2021’s unprecedented all-digital festival [Los Angeles Times]
This year’s Sundance Film Festival, its first virtual incarnation, ran Jan. 28 to Feb. 3 and Times film staffers were collectively glued to our TVs, laptops, smartphones and other devices to join in the annual celebration of independent cinema. Critic Justin Chang and reporters Mark Olsen and Jen Yamato discuss a most unusual festival experience and nod to some standout films and a few rather puzzling decisions by the festival’s awards juries.
JUSTIN CHANG: At a normal Sundance Film Festival, Jen and Mark, we wouldn’t be writing to each other. We’d be sitting around that big kitchen in the L.A. Times condo, snacking on pizza and gummy bears, exchanging quick notes on the movies we’ve seen and strategizing about what to see and write about next. Then some of us would don our beanies and parkas and head out into the snow while doing the kinds of quick travel-time calcula