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What’s new to VOD and streaming this weekend: May 14-16
Including reviews of The Underground Railroad, The Killing Of Two Lovers, In The Earth and more By Norman Wilner and Radheyan Simonpillai
May 14, 2021
OW critics pick what’s new to streaming and VOD for the weekend of May 14. Plus: Everything new to VOD and streaming platforms.
The Killing Of Two Lovers
(Robert Machoian)
Machoian’s solo debut as a writer/director after more than a decade of collaborations and documentaries is a spare, aching and almost unbearably sad drama about thirtysomething David (Clayne Crawford), a husband and father in rural Utah mired in a domestic crisis. He’s separated from his wife Nikki (Sepideh Moafi) and their children. Nikki appears to be moving on. David has a gun. He badly wants to use it. But The Killing Of Two Lovers isn’t that simple. Machoian immediately complicates his story by showing us who David is when he’s not blinded by rage, and then complicates things fur
What Lies West, a gentle drama about the budding friendship between a recent college graduate and a 16-year-old, is an original story by debut writer/director Jessica Ellis. But it feels like an adaptation, particularly of the sorts of very popular books about growing up in the suburbs that kids used to read in the late 20th century US, by authors like Beverly Cleary (for elementary school kids) and Judy Blume (harder-edged, for tweens and teens).
Set during the summer in hilly California, and building towards a long hike that tests the main characters, What Lies West is set squarely in the real world. The details of the central friendship and the characters relationships with their parents and peers ring true. But this not a high-stakes, deep-and-dark tale of emotional turmoil and loss, nor is it meant to be. Ellis has cleared out a space where almost nothing but the central friendship matters. Everything else in the young women s lives is connected to that, but doesn t
Rachel Leibrock May 10, 2021Updated: May 11, 2021, 7:13 am
Nicolette Ellis (left) and Chloe Moore star in “What Lies West.” The film, set and shot in Sonoma County, premieres on video on demand Tuesday, May 11. Photo: Sean Carroll, What Lies West
Santa Rosa native Jessica Ellis set out to make a film that centered on the theme of capacity the ability to adapt and thrive under pressure and uncertainty.
She didn’t know her own capacity would be tested during production, when devastating wildfires blazed through some of the film’s exterior locations in Sonoma County, and again after a routine test revealed a congenital heart defect that required immediate open-heart surgery.
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I loved “”What Lies West,” an Indie film starring two very different but likeable young women in a coming of age story. Nicolette (played by Nicolette Ellis) is a popular 22-year-old who’s a recent college graduate. She majored in acting, but isn’t quite ready to head to L.A. with her friends. We learn that Nicolette’s not quite over the pain her boyfriend Alex (Jack Vincenty) inflicted when he married someone else.
Alex still tries to keep Nicolette on his string, but reneges on a promise to hire her at the Sonoma Valley winery he runs for his family. Instead, he offers to find an image consultant to further her acting dreams. This should give her an “edge” over other aspiring actresses heading for Hollywood. Nicolette moves in with her parents, but her plans for a relaxing summer are overturned by her concerned mother.