Phoenix Film Festival 2021
It's been over a year since we last were able to attend our home festival. And it feels so good to be back. Kaely and Tuesday along with Jen and Amanda have full slate of fantastic films to share with you!
We are also rating films by shots - 🥃
From one to five, one being the lowest and five the highest, and double shots for truly amazing films!
Drinks to pair with Downeast
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Downeast
"We are all running from something" is the tagline line for this Maine-made movie. Downeast takes the noir genre and gives it a 2021 update. Lobsterer Tommy lives in a small fishing town that is under the thumb of a gangster. Emma is the sister of his now deceased friend Mikey. The need for answers and closure drive Emma to return to the town. But secrets lie around every lobster trap, and a dangerous game of cat and mouse begins. Downeast won Best Ensemble at the Phoenix Film Festival, and it also impressed us as well. Kaely: 4.3 Shots 🥃🥃🥃🥃🥃 Tuesday: 4.8 🥃🥃🥃🥃🥃 Listen to our review below! |
- Kaely Monahan and Tuesday Mahrle
Drinks to pair with 12 Months of Kai
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12 Months of Kai
It's 2025. Kyoka works as a web director in Tokyo. She's still grieving a breakup that tears at her heart. Lonely she decides to purchase a personal care humanoid, a PCH. He arrives and she names him Kai. Able to simulate 60% of human behavior, Kyoka quickly develops feelings for Kai. But things take a creepier twist when she suddenly discovers she's pregnant. Something that should be impossible. 12 Months of Kai takes the concept of artificial intelligence a step further than most films of the same concept. Beautifully directed with riveting acting, it's no wonder this movie won the 2021 Phoenix Film Festival Best SciFi Feature. Tuesday: 4 Shots 🥃🥃🥃🥃 Kaely: 5 Shots 🥃🥃🥃🥃🥃 Listen to our review below! |
- Kaely Monahan and Tuesday Mahrle
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We Are the Thousand
What happens when you call out for one thousand rock musicians to come to your town and play together, all in the hopes of attracting your favorite band? You get an incredible documentary full of joy, spirit, and human greatness. And that's exactly what We Are the Thousand gives us. It's the story about the world's largest rock band and how they got started. 4.5 Shots 🥃🥃🥃🥃🥃 Listen to our review below! |
- Kaely Monahan and Tuesday Mahrle
Eric-Lee Olsen as "George"
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Planet George
Another fun-filled and Arizona-made film, Planet George follows the hijinks of George, a trustworthy doorman fed up with a rash of low-level crimes in the luxury condo complex where he works and lives. With pleas for help going unanswered, by management, George enlists the help of his goofy childhood friend and the pretty girl next door. The mission: solve the mystery of break-ins and reinvent his lackluster life. 3.5 Shots 🥃🥃🥃🥃 Listen to our review below! |
- Kaely Monahan and Tuesday Mahrle
Kiawntiio as Beans.
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Beans
Based on true events, twelve-year-old Beans is on the edge: torn between innocent childhood and reckless adolescence; forced to grow up fast and become the tough Mohawk warrior she needs to be during the Oka Crisis, the turbulent Indigenous uprising that tore Quebec and Canada apart for 78 tense days in the summer of 1990. This is director Tracey Deer's debut feature. 4.5 Shots 🥃🥃🥃🥃 🥃 Listen to our review below! |
- Kaely Monahan and Amanda Luberto
Whitmer Thomas as Denny in "The Immortal Jellyfish."
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The Immortal JellyfishDenny, an off-the-grid oddball who calls a nurse hot-line for help with his nasty "fire piss" problem. When a dying man washes ashore, Denny and nurse Linda get caught up in the drama and become madcap partners in crime-solving.
4 Shots 🥃🥃🥃🥃
Take a listen to our full review below!
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- Kaely Monahan and Tuesday Mahrle