Echo Chamber - 170 - Part Two
It's 'Part Two' this week's @EchoChamberFP and this time, we bring you three vastly different, BUT, very good films!, Starting on Apple TV+ with a story of friendship from the future, then it's over to Netflix for a book adaptation that hits a racial & cultural nerve. And then, what could be this generation's ‘Love Jones'!
'Finch' is a new dystopian feature on Apple TV+, directed by Miguel Sapochnik and written by Craig Luck & Ivor Powell. On a post-apocalyptic earth, Tom Hanks is Finch, a man who embarks on a moving and powerful journey to find a new home for his unlikely family—his beloved dog and a newly created robot—in a dangerous and ravaged world.
Rebecca Hall adapts ‘Passing’, Nella Larsen's celebrated 1929 novel of the same name for the big screen! It tells the story of two Black women, Irene Redfield (Tessa Thompson) and Clare Kendry (Ruth Negga), who can “pass” as white but choose to live on opposite sides of the color line during the height of the Harlem Renaissance in late 1920s New York. After a chance encounter reunites the former childhood friends one summer afternoon, Irene reluctantly allows Clare into her home, where she ingratiates herself to Irene’s husband (André Holland) and family, and soon her larger social circle as well. As their lives become more deeply intertwined, Irene finds her once-steady existence upended by Clare.
'Really Love' is directed by Angel Kristi Williams and co-written by Felicia Pride. Set in contemporary Washington D.C., a rising black painter, Isaiah (Kofi Siriboe) strives to break into the competitive art world, while balancing a bittersweet romance he never expected with a strong & ambitious law student, Stevie (Yootha Wong-Loi-Sing) with her own dreams, aspirations, and desires.
In 'Part Two' we have:
Finch - Poster
Finch
Watch Review: Here.
Digital Release Date: 5th November 2021
Director: Miguel Sapochnik
Cast: Tom Hanks, Caleb Landry Jones, Seamus, Marie Wagenman, Lora Cunningham, Oscar Avila, Emily Jones
Credit: Amblin Entertainment, Reliance Entertainment, Walden Media, ImageMovers, Misher Films, Apple TV+
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Running Time: 115 mins
Cert: 12a
Trailer: Here.
Website: Here.
Passing - Poster
Passing
Watch Review: Here.
Digital Release Date: 10th November 2021
Director: Rebecca Hall
Cast: Tessa Thompson, Ruth Negga, André Holland, Bill Camp, Gbenga Akinnagbe, Antoinette Crowe-Legacy, Alexander Skarsgård
Credit: AUM Group, Film4, Flat Five Productions, Netflix
Genre: Drama
Running Time: 98 mins
Cert: 12a
Trailer: Here.
Website: Here.
Instagram: @passingmovie
Really Love - Poster
Really Love
Watch Review: Here.
Digital Release Date: 25th August 2021
Director: Angel Kristi Williams
Cast: Kofi Siriboe, Yootha Wong-Loi-Sing, Blair Underwood, Uzo Aduba, Tristan Mack Wilds as Nick, Naturi Naughton, Suzzanne Douglas, Michael Ealy, Gina Jun, Jade Eshete, Marla Aaron
Credit: MACRO, Homegrown Productions, Netflix
Genre: Drama, Romance
Running Time: 95 mins
Cert: 18
Trailer: Here.
Website: Here.
*(Music)
‘Feds Watching’ (feat. Pharrell) by 2 Chainz - 2013