Sundance Film Festival 2021 Coverage: Day Two
Day two of our Sundance 2021 coverage includes review for I Was a Simple Man, John and the Hole and In the Earth. Keep checking throughout the week for more [...]
Sundance Film Festival 2021 Coverage: Day One
With this year's Sundance Film Festival taking place virtually, we were able to "attend" the festival this year. Throughout each day of Sundance, we'll give you reviews of all the [...]
Review Round Up 1/27
This past month has been quite busy over here on DeFacto, and there were quite a few films we weren't able to make time for. So to make up for [...]
One Night in Miami
Empowering in ideas and full of compelling moments, "One Night in Miami" isn't your comprehensive biopic or period piece of the celebrated historical icons on display in Regina King's directorial [...]
Ghost Tropic
Bas Devos's hypnotic and woozy Belgium film centers on a middle-aged Muslim woman, a widow, who gets lost during the late hours in Brussels. The film becomes very dreamlike and [...]
Promising Young Woman
It's rare for a film to embody a sense of style and attitude within the very first minute; or in the case of Promising Young Woman, the first directorial feature [...]
Soul
Releasing right on Christmas Day on Disney+ instead of theaters due to the COVID-19 pandemic, "Soul"-- the latest Pixar animated film directed by Peter Docter and co-directed by American playwright [...]
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
The most recent film adaptation of playwright August Wilson's work was 2016's Fences. Helmed by and starring Denzel Washington, the adaptation was a major critical success and awarded Viola Davis [...]
Minari
Lee Isaac Chung's "Minari" clutches you from the very start, with stunning landscape shots and inserts of nature that instantly draws comparisons and influences from Terrence Malick where humans realize [...]
Black Bear
Lawrence Michael Levine is a part of the second generation of mumblecore filmmakers. Mumblecore is a “genre” of film in a way, but more so was a group of filmmakers [...]