Sundance 2021 Preview: Gary’s Flick Picks

January 25, 2021 by Moviejawn Account in gary kramer, film fest, sundance, features

by Gary M. Kramer, Staff Writer

Here are a few titles I’m expecting to see among all the independent and international films screening this year.

Love Sarah

January 14, 2021 by Guest User in reviews, gary kramer

Written and directed by Eliza Schroeder
Starring Candace Brown, Shelley Conn, Celia Imre
Running time: 1 hour and 38 minutes

By Gary M. Kramer

The cinematic confection, Love Sarah, is like those pastries that look good but are tasteless. This feel-good British rom-com—that is briefly romantic, and never witty or amusing—is merely a trifle, to use a British dessert pun. This film is so inconsequential that the calories spent consuming it will result only in guilt.

Stars Fell on Alabama

January 08, 2021 by Guest User in gary kramer, reviews

Directed by VW Scheich
Starring Ciara Hanna, James Maslow, Jason Burkey
Running time: 1 hour and 43 minutes

by Gary M. Kramer

Stars Fell on Alabama is as gentle and likable as the romantic country song that gives this modest, charming film its title. This predictable romance may lean into its genre conventions, but it is so aggressively wholesome that resistance is almost futile. Sure, cynics can scoff, and haters are gonna hate, but this film is just made for pre-teen girls or adults who cuddle up and watch Lifetime.

MJ's Top Ten of 2020

December 30, 2020 by Rosalie Leonard in top 10, benjamin leonard, Audrey Callerstrom, emily maesar, fiona underhill, hunter bush, jaime davis, liz locke, Liz Wiest, matthew mccafferty, rosalie kicks, ryan silberstein, ryan smillie, Sara Clements, alex rudolph, dan santelli, ian hrabe, gary kramer, garrett smith, features

by Benjamin Leonard, Best Boy

A couple weeks before the end of the year (and what a year it’s been), I asked everybody to list their top five movies that they’d seen so far. This is always a tough chore because people are trying to cram in the films they’d heard about but missed throughout the year and then there’s the Christmas Day releases that only a few people have seen by that point. This means that people will always look back at their list in a year or two and find things that they wish they would've included, but just hadn’t seen yet. I feel like this year has exacerbated that situation because everyone has had to settle into finding films through different avenues.

Here, I’ve compiled everyone’s rankings and responses to give the MovieJawn Top Ten for 2020.