Over the Moon (2020)Director: Glen Keane, John Kahrs Screenwriter: Audrey Welles Starring: Cathy Ang, Phillipa Soo, Ruthie Ann Miles, Robert G. Chiu, John Cho, Ken Jeong, Sandra Oh Netflix’s animated musical fantasy Over the Moon was nominated for Best Animated Feature at the 2021 Oscars. Directed by veteran animator Glen Keane alongside John Kahrs and … Read more
The Letter Room (2020) Director: Elvira Lind Screenwriter: Elvira Lind Starring: Oscar Isaac, John Douglas Thompson, Brian Petsos, Eileen Galindo, Alia Shawkat The Letter Room is a tightly focused short drama centered on Oscar Isaac’s subtle, watchable lead performance. Clocking in at around thirty minutes, the film is written and directed by Elvira Lind and … Read more
A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon (2019) Directors: Richard Phelan, Will Becher Screenwriters: Mark Burton, Jon Brown Starring: Justin Fletcher, John Sparkes, Amalia Vitale, Chris Morrell Chicken Run premiered twenty-one years ago and announced Aardman Animation’s arrival as a major feature-film studio. That debut, together with early hits like Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of … Read more
Yes-People (2021) Director: Gísli Darri Halldórsson Screenwriter: Gísli Darri Halldórsson Yes-People is a short animated film that finds warmth and wit in the ordinary rhythms of daily life. Nominated in the Animation Short Subject category at the 2021 Oscars, this compact piece by Icelandic filmmaker Gísli Darri Halldórsson stands out for its quietly observant tone … Read more
This article was written exclusively for The Film Magazine by Peter Charney. The Father (2021) Director: Florian Zeller Screenwriters: Christopher Hampton, Florian Zeller Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Olivia Colman, Mark Gatiss, Olivia Williams, Imogen Poots, Rufus Sewell Aging is inevitable, and for many it arrives with confusion, loss and a painful erosion of identity. Florian Zeller’s … Read more
If Anything Happens I Love You (2020) Directors: Michael Govier, Will McCormack Screenwriters: Michael Govier, Will McCormack The animated short If Anything Happens I Love You, written and directed by Michael Govier and Will McCormack, stands out as one of the most affecting pieces of short-form cinema in recent years. Released on Netflix, this hand-drawn … Read more
Sound of Metal (2021) Director: Darius Marder Screenwriters: Darius Marder, Abraham Marder, Derek Cianfrance Starring: Riz Ahmed, Paul Raci, Olivia Cooke, Mathieu Amalric, Chelsea Lee Some of life’s most defining moments arrive not in a single, cinematic instant but slowly, in shifts and fractures that remap who we are. Darius Marder’s Sound of Metal explores … Read more
BAFTA Film Awards 2021 — Winners and Highlights For the first time in its history, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts staged the BAFTA Film Awards across two nights — Saturday 10 and Sunday 11 April — combining a live in-person presentation from London’s Royal Albert Hall with a studio broadcast from Los … Read more
The Present (2021) Director: Farah Nabulsi Screenwriters: Farah Nabulsi, Hind Shoufani Starring: Saleh Bakri, Mariam Kanj, Mariam Basha Farah Nabulsi’s short drama The Present — a 24-minute film nominated for Live Action Short at the 2021 Oscars — uses a simple, everyday errand to expose the wider realities of life under occupation. The film places … Read more
Hunger Ward (2021) Director: Skye Fitzgerald To imagine the loss of a child is to confront a grief so profound it reshapes everything you think you know about suffering. Skye Fitzgerald’s short documentary Hunger Ward places that unbearable grief at its center and refuses to let viewers look away. Filmed inside two malnutrition treatment centers … Read more
