Blue Bayou
By Phil Guie September 17, 2021
An undocumented South Korean who has built a life for himself in New Orleans, which includes a loving wife and a stepdaughter, finds it all imperiled after an incident with the police.
An undocumented South Korean who has built a life for himself in New Orleans, which includes a loving wife and a stepdaughter, finds it all imperiled after an incident with the police.
This year, the festival has been reduced to its purest form, as a celebration of new works from around the world, apart from parties and in-person buzz.
How do you make a film under Covid restrictions? Two movies demonstrate how two story lines were shaped by self-isolation, with minimal physical interaction among their casts.
The moment-to-moment and day-by-day retelling of the 2018 Tham Luang cave rescue feels fresh off the press.
Director Denis Villeneuve turns Frank Herbert’s multilayered, 1965 sci-fi classic novel into an involving adventure.
A two-hander about the long-distance friendship between a teacher and student—just because a friend is discovered through Zoom doesn’t make it any less real.
Director Greg Barker gives audiences an inside look into the events surrounding American-born Taliban fighter John Walker Lindh’s capture, his trial, and the immense media frenzy and jingoism it catalyzed.
Though its approach, focused on the rich during a military regime, seems cold, detached, and cynical to a certain degree, the results are discretely chilling.