Favourites from 2020
Favourite films, specials, shorts and new shows (etc.) throughout the year.
Shout-outs:
Bloody Nose Empty Pockets, The Mole Agent, How to with John Wilson, Possessor, The Gulf of Silence, Shithouse, Welcome to Chechnya, Spontaneous, Host, Sylvie's Love, Little America, Bad Education, Love and Monsters, Emma., Blood Quantum, Everything - The Real Thing Story, My Octopus Teacher, Birds of Prey, Maron: End Times Fun, The Half of It, Scare Me, Borat 2...
Still need to check out:
A Hidden Life, Raised by Wolves, Da 5 Bloods, Wolfwalkers, On the Rocks, Family Romance LLC, The Outsider, Seinfeld: 23 Hours to Kill, Guest of Honour, David Byrne’s American Utopia, American Pie Presents: Girls’ Rules, The Stand...
Shout-outs:
Bloody Nose Empty Pockets, The Mole Agent, How to with John Wilson, Possessor, The Gulf of Silence, Shithouse, Welcome to Chechnya, Spontaneous, Host, Sylvie's Love, Little America, Bad Education, Love and Monsters, Emma., Blood Quantum, Everything - The Real Thing Story, My Octopus Teacher, Birds of Prey, Maron: End Times Fun, The Half of It, Scare Me, Borat 2...
Still need to check out:
A Hidden Life, Raised by Wolves, Da 5 Bloods, Wolfwalkers, On the Rocks, Family Romance LLC, The Outsider, Seinfeld: 23 Hours to Kill, Guest of Honour, David Byrne’s American Utopia, American Pie Presents: Girls’ Rules, The Stand...
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- DirectorKelly ReichardtStarsAlia ShawkatJohn MagaroDylan SmithA skilled cook has traveled west and joined a group of fur trappers in Oregon, though he only finds true connection with a Chinese immigrant also seeking his fortune. Soon the two collaborate on a successful business.
- DirectorAlexander NanauStarsDan Alexandru CondreaLiviu IoluRazvan LutacDirector Alexander Nanau follows a crack team of investigators at the Romanian newspaper Gazeta Sporturilor as they try to uncover a vast health-care fraud that enriched moguls and politicians and led to the deaths of innocent citizens.
- StarsMark RuffaloJohn ProcaccinoRob HuebelFollowing the parallel lives of identical twin brothers Dominick and Thomas Birdsey in a story of betrayal, sacrifice, and forgiveness.
- DirectorJasmila ZbanicStarsJasna DjuricicIzudin BajrovicBoris LerAida is a translator for the UN in the small town of Srebrenica. When the Serbian army takes over the town, her family is among the thousands of citizens looking for shelter in the UN camp.
- DirectorRoman ChimientiTyler JensenStarsCecil BaldwinMark PattonRobert EnglundA retrospective look at A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge (1985) and the life of its lead actor, Mark Patton.
- DirectorLili HorvátStarsNatasa StorkViktor BodóBenett VilmányiMárta, a forty-year-old neurosurgeon, falls in love. She leaves her shining American career behind and returns to Budapest to start a new life with the man. But the love of her life claims they have never met before.
- DirectorAndrew PattersonStarsSierra McCormickJake HorowitzGail CronauerOne night in New Mexico, in the late 1950s, a switchboard operator and radio DJ discover a strange audio frequency which could change the future forever.
- DirectorKirby DickAmy ZieringStarsSil Lai AbramsJoe BidenTarana BurkeA former hip hop executive decides whether to make public her rape by one of the most powerful men in the music industry.
- DirectorJeremy GardnerChristian StellaStarsJeremy GardnerBrea GrantHenry ZebrowskiWhen his girlfriend suddenly disappears, leaving a cryptic note as her only explanation, Hank's comfortable life and his sanity begin to crack. Then, from the woods surrounding his house, something terrible starts trying to break in.
- CreatorArmando IannucciStarsHugh LaurieJosh GadZach WoodsThe troubled crew of Avenue 5, a space cruise ship filled with spoiled, rich, snotty space tourists, must try and keep everyone calm after their ship gets thrown off course into space and ends up needing three years to return to Earth.
- DirectorKitty GreenStarsJulia GarnerOwen HollandJon OrsiniA searing look at a day in the life of an assistant to a powerful executive. As Jane follows her daily routine, she grows increasingly aware of the insidious abuse that threatens every aspect of her position.
- DirectorDavid PriorStarsJames Badge DaleMarin IrelandSasha FrolovaOn the trail of a missing girl, an ex-cop comes across a secretive group attempting to summon a terrifying supernatural entity.
- DirectorVisar MorinaStarsMisel MaticevicSandra HüllerRainer BockEXIL tells the story of a chemical engineer of foreign origin who feels discriminated and bullied at work, plunging him into an identity crisis.
- DirectorKiyoshi KurosawaStarsYû AoiIssei TakahashiMasahiro HigashideA Japanese merchant who leaves his wife behind in order to travel to Manchuria, where he witnesses an act of barbarism. His subsequent actions cause misunderstanding, jealousy and legal problems for his wife.
- CreatorSteven LeckartGlen ZipperStarsJune Scobee RodgersWilliam HarwoodJohn ZarrellaFour-part docuseries on the 1986 Challenger space shuttle disaster, unpacking an indelible moment for a generation of Americans.
- DirectorRose GlassStarsMorfydd ClarkCaoilfhionn DunneJennifer EhleA pious nurse becomes dangerously obsessed with saving the soul of her dying patient.
- DirectorDavid FincherStarsGary OldmanAmanda SeyfriedLily Collins1930s Hollywood is re-evaluated through the eyes of scathing social critic and alcoholic screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz as he races to finish the screenplay of Citizen Kane (1941).
- DirectorEliza HittmanStarsSidney FlaniganTalia RyderThéodore PellerinA pair of teenage girls in rural Pennsylvania travel to New York City to seek out medical help after an unintended pregnancy.
- DirectorJohn HyamsStarsJules WillcoxMarc MenchacaAnthony HealdA recently widowed traveler is kidnapped by a cold-blooded killer, only to escape into the wilderness, where she is forced to battle against the elements as her pursuer closes in on her.
- DirectorKirsten JohnsonStarsMichael HilowAna HoffmanDick JohnsonA daughter helps her father prepare for the end of his life.
- DirectorAnders Sømme HammerStarsJoey SiuRocky S. TuanThe story of the 2019 Hong Kong protests, told through a series of demonstrations by local protesters that escalate into conflict when highly armed police appear on the scene.
- DirectorSteven BognarJulia ReichertStarsDave ChappelleAliciana LopezDave Chappelle addresses George Floyd's death and racial injustice in a stand-up special filmed in Ohio.
- StarsPaul MescalDaisy Edgar-JonesDesmond EastwoodFollows Marianne and Connell, from different backgrounds but the same small town in Ireland, as they weave in and out of each other's romantic lives.
- CreatorThomas MiddleditchBen SchwartzStarsThomas MiddleditchBen SchwartzThomas Middleditch ("Silicon Valley") and Ben Schwartz ("Parks and Recreation") perform two-person long-form improv.
- DirectorRomola GaraiStarsCarla JuriAlec SecareanuImelda StauntonAn ex-soldier, living homeless in London, is offered a place to stay at a decaying house inhabited by a young woman and her dying mother. As he starts to fall for her, he cannot ignore his suspicion that something sinister is going on.