For its first virtual edition, Alex is publishing an ongoing series of his high (and low) lights at this year’s Sundance Film Festival.

Masao Matsuyoshi (Steve Iwamoto) lives alone.  In a small cabin near the ocean, he has only his dog to keep him company in darkened rooms with shuttered windows. His frail health has prompted him to look upon the past, and he starts having visions of his late wife (Constance Wu) emerging out of the old tree in his front yard. He struggles reconciling with his past sins in preparation for taking the next step towards the afterlife in Christopher Makoto Yogi’s semi-biographical, Hawaiian-set drama, I Was a Simple Man.

In honor of its 25th anniversary, Alex and Nick take a trip down memory lane with David Cronenberg’s fittingly divisive adaptation of J.G. Ballard’s controversial novel, Crash. Plus, they also discuss a newly rediscovered West African film as well as a documentary on the history of comic books.

For its first virtual edition, Alex is publishing an ongoing series of his high (and low) lights at this year’s Sundance Film Festival.

How far would you go for your best friend? When they ask you for a favor, no matter what it might be, would you follow through for them? Would you even die for them? These questions, particularly the last one, are the kind childhood chums Kevin (Christopher Abbott) and Val (Jerrod Carmichael) contend with in Carmichael’s directorial debut On the Count of Three.

For its first virtual edition, Alex is publishing an ongoing series of his high (and low) lights at this year’s Sundance Film Festival.

During the summer of 1969, a music festival was held in New York City called the Harlem Cultural Festival. Hosted by Tony Lawrence, it ran on weekends throughout the summer and had a total attendance of nearly 300,000. Footage of the concert shot by Hal Tulchin was offered to various television networks, but no one was interested in broadcasting it. Their refusal was not dissuaded by producers attempting to sell the event as the “Black Woodstock”, building off of the iconic concert which took place concurrently a hundred miles away. The footage was eventually locked away in a basement, never to be seen by the public. Until now.

Just in time for awards season, Alex and Nick dive into the life of Citizen Kane scribe, Herman J. Mankiewicz, in David Fincher’s Mank. The Kouhi Brothers discuss the history surrounding the major figures featured in the film, as well as their views on Fincher’s take on a controversial slice of Hollywood history.