Above the Line vs Below the Line.   Episode 6 : Filmmaker vs Film Critic

Filmmaker : Victoria Negri

Victoria is an award-winning filmmaker and ultra marathon runner. Her feature directorial debut, Gold Star – which she wrote, directed, produced and acted in -features Oscar-nominated actor Robert Vaughn in his last on-screen performance. Gold Star won five awards on the festival circuit and was distributed via Turn Key Films on VOD, as well as being released theatrically in New York City, Los Angeles and Boston. The film received an 86% fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Victoria is an ongoing programmer for the Oxford Film Festival and has written pieces on filmmaking for NoFilmSchool, BtchFlicks, Women and Hollywood and The Talkhouse. Victoria is in development on her second feature film ULTRA with Executive Producers David Lowery, James Johnston, and Toby Halbrooks and Producers Jon Read and Allison Carter.

Film Critic : Matthew Schuchman

In the early 90s, while at the video store with his friends who wanted to rent Don’t Tell Mom The Babysitter’s Dead, Matthew asked the clerk if they had any copies of Naked Lunch available. A film buff from an early age, he would turn his fascination into his own review site in 2010; Movie Review from Gene Shalit’s Moustache. From there, he provided his voice to such publications as Den of Geek, Coming Soon, and Verbicide magazine as a film reviewer and talent interviewer.

Netflix film, ‘The Woman in the Window

Story : Anna Fox (Amy Adams) is an agoraphobic child psychologist who finds herself keeping tabs on the picture perfect family across the street through the windows of her New York City brownstone. Her life is turned upside down when she inadvertently witnesses a brutal crime. Based on the gripping, best-selling novel adapted by Tracy Letts, shocking secrets are revealed and nothing and no one are what they seem in this suspenseful psychological thriller 

Rating : R (Violence and Language)

Genre : Mystery and Thriller

Original Language : English

Director : Joe Wright

Producer : Scott Rudin, Eli Bush

Writer : Tracy Letts, A.J. Finn

Release Date : May 14th, 2021

Runtime : 1 h 40m

Production Co : Fox 2000 Pictures, Scott Rudin Productions, 20th Century Fox

Cast : Amy Adams, Gary Oldman, Anthony Mackie, Fred Hechinger, 

Wyatt Russell, Brian Tyree Henry, Tracy Letts, Jennifer Jason Leigh, and Julianne Moore

Check out more of Matthew’s video review.

Here’s the Trailer of the film.