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Dear Evan Hansen **1/2
There’s an entire treatise to be written about all the things that have been changed from the hit Broadway musical for this film adaptation, without addressing that it probably could never work as a film in the first place.
Pony Logan's "Cowboy Country Club," September 12 Minutes Max
Pony Logan Releases Cowboy Country Club
Just like
on his last release, 2020’s Big Sky, Pony Logan is back with more country experimentation, with perhaps a touch less autotune this time around though.
Cry Macho, Prisoners of the Ghostland, The Eyes of Tammy Faye and more
Blue Bayou **1/2
For something that begins and ends as a drama about one very specific real-life issue, writer/director Justin Chon’s film ultimately gets tangled up in too many different issues about the complexities of family. Chon also stars as Antonio LeBlanc, a Korean-born adoptee trying to move on from a life of crime in his marriage to single-mother Kathy (Alicia Vikander) and co-parenting her daughter, Jessie (Sydney Kowalske) while they await the birth of another baby.
The Card Counter, Kate, Malignant, Queenpins and more
The Alpinist ***
Real talk now: Evaluating character-study documentaries about mountain climbers for me always collides with the amount of time I spend in a semi-fetal position going “oh fuck holy shit aaahhhhhhh noooooooo.” Directors Peter Mortimer (who also narrates) and Nick Rosen spend two years following Marc-André Leclerc, a 23-year-old Canadian climber whose remarkable feats even amaze fellow climbers, including Free Solo subject Alex Honnold. The filmmakers face something of a unique challenge, in that the free-spirited, publicity-shy Leclerc is perpetually ditching them so he can make his landmark climbs truly on his own, and they do a solid job of building his unique personality and its role in the direction his life took into their narrative.
Richie's Thank You, Have a Nice Day; Urban Arts Festival
Richie Releases Thank You, Have a Nice Day
Anthony Richardson, also known as Richie, is a young local musician who’s no stranger to the professional world of music-making.
Shang-Chi, Cinderella, Worth, We Need to Do Something and more
Cinderella **
There’s a level on which on want to give points to this latest adaptation of the oft-told fairy tale for the chances it takes, but at some point the chances you take also need to work. In a far-off, long-ago kingdom, Ella (Camila Cabello) is stuck in a life of drudgery with her stepmother (Idina Menzel), dreaming of making her own way as a dress designer.
