Liz Whittemore

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0 Flares 0 Flares × In Lilia Doytchinova’s feature debut, The Haunting of Hollywood, the filmmaker wears all the hats. The story finds an aspiring young filmmaker moving to L.A. with his girlfriend. Plagued by the death of his actress mother years before, James finds himself pulled in by her unrequited dreams as he unpacks his traumatic childhood. Doytchinova uses well-known industry lore from 1934 as inspiration. A woman named Peg Entwistle jumped to her death off the Hollywood sign.

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UnBroken Beth Lane’s captivating documentary, UnBroken, tells the story of seven siblings who survived Nazi Germany. Following the arrest of their hero mother and previously imprisoned Catholic father, marked for a concentration camp, Lane’s mother and siblings were smuggled to safety in the back of a truck in the dead of night by their farmer neighbor. A journey of unbelievable resiliency, Lane retraces their steps from Berlin to America and into the pages of history.

2 days ago | reelnewsdaily.com | Liz Whittemore

FRÉWAKA Filmmaker Aislinn Clarke brings Shudder audiences a dark and tense story of a primary caregiver and the odd elderly ward she finds herself assigned. Following the death of her estranged mother, Shoo travels to a small town riddled with foul energy for the woman she must look after. Peig is a household name, and not in a good way. Surrounded by Peig’s superstitious rituals, Shoo’s growing isolation and underlying anguish trigger a long-dormant demand.

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0 Flares 0 Flares × Writer-director Durga Chew-Bose makes her feature debut by adapting the sensational coming-of-age novel Bonjour Tristesse by Françoise Sagan. The author was only 18 when she published her tale of summertime sexual awakening, jealousy, and plotting. In 1954, the story was so controversial that it was denounced by the Pope.

2 weeks ago | reelnewsdaily.com | Liz Whittemore

DADDY In Neal Kelley and Jono Sherman‘s sci-fi comedy DADDY,  four men navigate an intense government-controlled assessment retreat to determine whether they are eligible to father children. When they arrive at a remote cabin in the California hills without phones or the appearance of an assigned monitor, paranoia sets in. The dialogue feels like a stage play. The men share anxieties, theories, dreams, trauma, and awkward existential moments.