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Tag: Atlanta Film Festival 2021

Atlanta Film Festival 2021 Review: Nine Days

Written by Anna Harrison 85/100 Nine Days has a premise that could have very easily tipped towards the saccharine, spouting platitudes about the meaning of life with obnoxious heavy-handedness. Luckily, director Edson Oda and his creative team decided instead to … Continue reading.

Anna Harrison Film Festival, New Releases Leave a comment July 31, 2021July 30, 2021

Atlanta Film Festival 2021 Interview: Director Charlene Fisk Talks “Rideshare”

Interview by Anna Harrison Summary: After a fun night out with friends, Gina grabs a rideshare. An uncomplicated lift home shifts gears when the driver’s intentions become questionable. https://youtu.be/XY8J5icZFyc Rideshare played at the 2021 Atlanta Film Festival. You can read Anna's … Continue reading.

Anna Harrison Episodes Leave a comment June 8, 2021May 8, 2021

Atlanta Film Festival 2021 Review: Wet House

Written by Anna Harrison 75/100 75, really, is an arbitrary number, plucked from thin air to try and represent the thoughts swirling around my head, and in this case, it feels disingenuous. To give Wet House a numerical score is … Continue reading.

Anna Harrison Episodes Leave a comment June 4, 2021May 22, 2021

Atlanta Film Festival 2021 Interview: Timothy Hall, Dustin Gooch, and Delia Kropp Talk “Landlocked”

Interview by Anna Harrison Summary: Nick, a chef on the brink of opening his first restaurant, struggles to put his life back together following the loss of his mother. At his wife's urging, he reluctantly reaches out to Briana, his … Continue reading.

Anna Harrison Episodes Leave a comment May 24, 2021May 8, 2021

Atlanta Film Festival 2021 Review: Dream Horse

Written by Anna Harrison 65/100 Dream Horse is exactly what it advertises itself: an unabashed crowd pleaser that wears its heart on its sleeve, fully aware of its cheesiness and making no attempt to hide it. The result is a … Continue reading.

Anna Harrison Episodes Leave a comment May 13, 2021May 4, 2021

Atlanta Film Festival 2021 Interview: Director Asad Farooqui Talks ‘Congratulations’

Interview by Anna Harrison Summary: Amir (Asad Farooqui) is a struggling actor, meddling with lowly, wordless terrorist roles. More importantly, he struggles with his parents not taking his career choice seriously. Amidst the party chaos highlighted by politics, cricket, and … Continue reading.

Anna Harrison Episodes Leave a comment May 9, 2021May 4, 2021

Atlanta Film Festival 2021 Review: Landlocked

Written by Anna Harrison 70/100 So often, stories about transgender individuals in media are riddled with gloom and doom, ending in tragedy; so often, too, these individuals are played by cisgender actors gunning for that Oscar glory. Landlocked eschews these … Continue reading.

Anna Harrison Episodes 1 Comment May 6, 2021April 29, 2021

Atlanta Film Festival 2021 Review: Rideshare

Written by Anna Harrison 70/100 Rideshare, written and directed by Charlene Fisk, takes an everyday situation—getting into a rideshare after a night out—and injects an unsettling layer of claustrophobia. Gina (Brittany Wilkerson) is tired, and not really in the mood … Continue reading.

Anna Harrison Episodes 1 Comment May 3, 2021May 5, 2021

Atlanta Film Festival 2021 Review: Limbo

Written by Anna Harrison 85/100 Limbo is the first film I have seen in theaters in over a year, and the euphoric rush I felt as I walked in and inhaled the smell of popcorn would carry over as I … Continue reading.

Anna Harrison Episodes Leave a comment April 29, 2021April 29, 2021

Atlanta Film Festival 2021 Review: Congratulations

Written by Anna Harrison 80/100 Asad Farooqui’s smart and deftly funny short Congratulations (originally called Mabrook, an Arabic word meaning largely the same thing) opens with Amir, played by Farooqui himself, filming a self-tape for a movie, hoping to land … Continue reading.

Anna Harrison Episodes 1 Comment April 28, 2021April 28, 2021

Drink in the Movies Podcast

  • Episode 130: Thor: Love and Thunder / RRR / Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy July 24, 2022
  • Episode 129: Crimes of the Future / Top Gun: Maverick / Eyes Wide Shut July 4, 2022
  • Episode 128: Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness / Cha Cha Real Smooth / Marcel the Shell with Shoes On May 15, 2022
  • Episode 127: X / Morbius / Everything Everywhere All at Once April 9, 2022
  • Episode 126: Kimi / Death on the Nile / Dog March 11, 2022
  • Episode 125: Spider-Man: No Way Home / Nightmare Alley January 18, 2022
  • Episode 124: Don't Look Up / West Side Story / The Hand of God January 2, 2022
  • Episode 123: Chloé Zhao: Eternals / Songs My Brothers Taught Me December 13, 2021
  • Episode 122: Rescreening Letter from an Unknown Woman November 29, 2021
  • Episode 121: Lamb / The Last Duel / No Time to Die November 8, 2021

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