MARVELOUS AND THE BLACK HOLE MOVIE REVIEW

Surly 13-year-old Sammy (Miya Cech) is forced to take a summer class at the local community college after her latest act of deviancy lands her in the principal’s office near the end of the school year. Under her prickly personality, Sammy is grappling with her mother’s death and her father’s new relationship. While avoiding class, Sammy runs into eccentric stage magician Margo (Rhea Perlman). The two begin an unlikely friendship after Margo takes Sammy under her wing and starts to teach her stage magic. And who could be more magical to take us on this tale of teenage rebellion and grief and giant, growling bunny rabbits than a writer from Steven Universe and Adventure Time, Kate Tsang, in her directorial debut. Rose, Jordan, Neil, and TC lovingly discuss this coming of age film and realize that if they had only embraced the power of close up sleight of hand magic, they may have made it out of their respective emo phases much, much sooner.

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DIRECTED BY: Kate Tsang

STARRING: Miya Cech, Leonardo Nam, Kannon, Paulina Lule, Lauren Knutti, Aris Alvarado, Raymond McAnally, Keith Powell, Beth Hall, Rhea Perlman, Lucy DeVito, Rubén Orozco, Jae Suh Park, Jonathan Slavin, Ice McDonald, Elizabeth Messick, Eddie Medrano, Gabriel Buenaobra, Kai Cech, Tyler Chavis, Anna Malaimare, Emma Malaimare, Tianna McGee, Vahe Markosyan, Michelle Markosyan, Jaleah Whooper, Phuong Hoang, Katrin Mendoza, William Wang, So Yun Um, Carly Schneider, Angeline Buenaobra, Cruz Anthony Herrera, Jovani Larios, Kaylee Skaug, Jessee Fourdray

 

YOUR REVIEWERS

 

T.C. De Witt (Screener Squad)

T.C. De Witt is a multi-awarded writer/director originally from Wisconsin and now based in Los Angeles. His life has been devoted to the arts since he was a child. He’s been a stage performer, playwright, stand-up comic, film and television actor, radio DJ, podcaster published author, recorded musician, and comic writer/illustrator. He is now a professional screenwriter and has been thriving for the past decade, regularly offering his talents to production studios in LA, Chicago, Milwaukee, and internationally in Sydney and Poland. He’s provided content for Amazon Prime, Netflix, and several YouTube partners. His films have screened internationally, and his stageplays have been performed across the country. In the last ten years, he has directed 57 films, 23 episodes of his series The One Minute Rewatch, 300+ episodes of podcasts, and his multi-award-winning short film Screen: Righter screened at the Festival de Cannes in 2016. He has released two feature films, The Princess Knight and A Christmas Sunset. He thrives on collaboration and the thrill of sharing stories in all forms.

 

 

Rose Mattox (Screener Squad, Eye On The Prize)

Originally hailing from Austin then Houston, Rose has been an avid movie and TV fanatic pretty much since birth. She spends spending her days watching Star Trek reruns, 60’s spy fiction, and Audrey Hepburn movies with her beloved minion (see: dog Riley). She also occasionally dabbles in comedy, screenwriting, as well as graphic and interior design. Rose has been contributing to One of Us since 2019 as a member of the Screener Squad, as well as making regular appearances on Eye on the Prize during awards season. She can be found on Twitter at @nightattheopera.

 

 

Jordan Cobb (Screener Squad)

Born with a comic book in one hand, a camera in the other, and in front of the television as WrestleMania played out, Jordan Worth Cobb was thus birthed into this crazy world. A Digital Filmmaking major from the University of Central Arkansas, Jordan has done it all in film from directing, writing, editing, and producing in addition to skills involved in film and TV criticism,