Featuring one of the more eye-rolling puns in recent memory, Liz Marshall’s clean-meat documentary “Meat the Future’‘ plays out both as a swift introduction to the growing industry of cultivated meat and a feature-length advertisement for Upside Foods (formerly Memphis Meats) and its founder/CEO Dr. Uma Valeti. Despite such a compelling subject, the film is ultimately more interested in championing Valeti’s start-up then turning a critical eye on the practicalities, or lack thereof, of clean-meat production.
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- 4/7/2022
- by Christian Gallichio
- The Playlist
“Meat the Future” is a slightly goofy title for a film that takes its subject very, very seriously. The wordplay feels like a token flourish of whimsy in Liz Marshall’s quietly educational documentary about the rise of alternative, environmentally friendly but still animal-based meat, as if to gently beckon carnivorous viewers who might be expecting a dour lecture. That isn’t on the cards here, however. “Meat the Future” unfolds as a thorough and persuasive presentation for a cutting-edge product that it wants us to start thinking about in normalized terms; it’s got too much to explain and advocate to leave much time for moral repudiation. “Clean meat,” as cell-grown protein has been branded by the scientists developing it, is the future; Marshall’s doc treats the present as a formality to be politely put behind us.
Selected to premiere as a special presentation at Hot Docs — and...
Selected to premiere as a special presentation at Hot Docs — and...
- 5/29/2020
- by Guy Lodge
- Variety Film + TV
Burbank, CA – Youth, truth and trust are central to the latest brick-tastic adventure when DC’s Justice League welcomes its newest – and youngest – member in Lego® DC: Shazam! Magic and Monsters, an all-new, full-length animated feature film in the Lego DC series. Produced by Warner Bros. Animation, DC and the Lego Group, the film will be distributed by Warner Bros. Home Entertainment on Digital starting April 28, 2020, and on Blu-rayTM Combo Pack ($24.98 Srp) and DVD ($19.98 Srp) on June 16, 2020.
Lego DC: Shazam! Magic and Monsters will be available on Blu-ray Combo Pack (USA $24.98 Srp; Canada $29.98 Srp) and DVD (USA $19.98 Srp: Canada $24.98 Srp) as well as on Digital. The Blu-ray Combo Pack features a Blu-ray disc with the film in hi-definition, a DVD with the film in standard definition, and a digital version of the movie. The Blu-rayTM Combo Pack and DVD releases of Lego DC: Shazam! Magic and Monsters feature an exclusive...
Lego DC: Shazam! Magic and Monsters will be available on Blu-ray Combo Pack (USA $24.98 Srp; Canada $29.98 Srp) and DVD (USA $19.98 Srp: Canada $24.98 Srp) as well as on Digital. The Blu-ray Combo Pack features a Blu-ray disc with the film in hi-definition, a DVD with the film in standard definition, and a digital version of the movie. The Blu-rayTM Combo Pack and DVD releases of Lego DC: Shazam! Magic and Monsters feature an exclusive...
- 4/6/2020
- by ComicMix Staff
- Comicmix.com
Documentaries to benefit include The Possibilities Are Endless, about musician Edwyn Collins’ battle to regain his memory.
The Bertha Britdoc Connect Fund grant, which help support the impact around documentary films, has selected its latest tranche of titles.
The eight films to benefit from grants ranging from £5,000 to £50,0000 were selected from more than 130 applications.
Titles include The Possibilities Are Endless, from directors Edward Lovelace and James Hall, about Edwyn Collins, a songwriter who suffered a stroke so severe that it effectively deleted the contents of his mind. The lyricist was only able to say two phrases: “The Possibilities are Endless” and “Grace Maxwell” (the name of his wife).
Ghosts in Our Machine
Dir. Liz Marshall
The film illuminates the lives of individual animals living within and rescued from the machine of our modern world. Through the heart and lens of photojournalist Jo-Anne McArthur, audiences become intimately familiar with a cast of non-human animals. Each story and...
The Bertha Britdoc Connect Fund grant, which help support the impact around documentary films, has selected its latest tranche of titles.
The eight films to benefit from grants ranging from £5,000 to £50,0000 were selected from more than 130 applications.
Titles include The Possibilities Are Endless, from directors Edward Lovelace and James Hall, about Edwyn Collins, a songwriter who suffered a stroke so severe that it effectively deleted the contents of his mind. The lyricist was only able to say two phrases: “The Possibilities are Endless” and “Grace Maxwell” (the name of his wife).
Ghosts in Our Machine
Dir. Liz Marshall
The film illuminates the lives of individual animals living within and rescued from the machine of our modern world. Through the heart and lens of photojournalist Jo-Anne McArthur, audiences become intimately familiar with a cast of non-human animals. Each story and...
- 6/4/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Documentaries to benefit include The Possibilities Are Endless, about musician Edwyn Collins’ battle to regain his memory.
The Bertha Britdoc Connect Fund grant, which help support the impact around documentary films, has selected its latest tranche of titles.
The eight films to benefit from grants ranging from £5,000 to £50,0000 were selected from more than 130 applications.
Titles include The Possibilities Are Endless, from directors Edward Lovelace and James Hall, about Edwyn Collins, a songwriter who suffered a stroke so severe that it effectively deleted the contents of his mind. The lyricist was only able to say two phrases: “The Possibilities are Endless” and “Grace Maxwell” (the name of his wife).
Ghosts in Our Machine
Dir. Liz Marshall
The film illuminates the lives of individual animals living within and rescued from the machine of our modern world. Through the heart and lens of photojournalist Jo-Anne McArthur, audiences become intimately familiar with a cast of non-human animals. Each story and...
The Bertha Britdoc Connect Fund grant, which help support the impact around documentary films, has selected its latest tranche of titles.
The eight films to benefit from grants ranging from £5,000 to £50,0000 were selected from more than 130 applications.
Titles include The Possibilities Are Endless, from directors Edward Lovelace and James Hall, about Edwyn Collins, a songwriter who suffered a stroke so severe that it effectively deleted the contents of his mind. The lyricist was only able to say two phrases: “The Possibilities are Endless” and “Grace Maxwell” (the name of his wife).
Ghosts in Our Machine
Dir. Liz Marshall
The film illuminates the lives of individual animals living within and rescued from the machine of our modern world. Through the heart and lens of photojournalist Jo-Anne McArthur, audiences become intimately familiar with a cast of non-human animals. Each story and...
- 6/4/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Chicago – It’s difficult to comment upon a documentary like “The Ghosts in Our Machine,” as it advocates an important issue regarding our very nature – the relationship we have with our food and the animals that provide that food. However, the structure of the film and the centerpiece photographer profile obscures the point of view.
Rating: 3.0/5.0
That photographer is Jo-Anne McArthur, whose life’s work is capturing the images of animals – used for food and fur – in the often harsh environments of their developmental captivity. This is difficult stuff, especially if you have a relationship with an animal or just love them overall. It may change your attitude toward meat eating in any form, or it may at least provide some perspective on his ongoing “elephant in the room” – that of the inherent torture of food and fur animals before they are inevitably slaughtered. Director Liz Marshall has rendered an almost meditative film,...
Rating: 3.0/5.0
That photographer is Jo-Anne McArthur, whose life’s work is capturing the images of animals – used for food and fur – in the often harsh environments of their developmental captivity. This is difficult stuff, especially if you have a relationship with an animal or just love them overall. It may change your attitude toward meat eating in any form, or it may at least provide some perspective on his ongoing “elephant in the room” – that of the inherent torture of food and fur animals before they are inevitably slaughtered. Director Liz Marshall has rendered an almost meditative film,...
- 12/6/2013
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
In her work as an animal rights activist, photographer Jo-Anne McArthur tries to get everyday people to grapple with the moral, ethical, and spiritual issues that underlay our relationships to animals. "I feel like I'm a war photographer," she says early in the documentary The Ghosts in Our Machine. "And I'm photographing changes in history in terms of animal rights and where they're going."
Director Liz Marshall's camera trails McArthur everywhere, from meetings with a potential book editor to clandestine night shoots at factory farms, slaughterhouses, and research labs, immersing the viewer in the struggles of her heroine — saving animals, building her career in order to gain currency that can then be used to shine a light on the issue, trying to protect her own ...
Director Liz Marshall's camera trails McArthur everywhere, from meetings with a potential book editor to clandestine night shoots at factory farms, slaughterhouses, and research labs, immersing the viewer in the struggles of her heroine — saving animals, building her career in order to gain currency that can then be used to shine a light on the issue, trying to protect her own ...
- 11/6/2013
- Village Voice
The Ghosts in Our Machine
Directed & Written by Liz Marshall
Canada, 2012
Modern Western philosophical patriarch René Descartes is probably best known for his pithy dictum: cogito ergo sum (“I think, therefore I am”) – a formulation which led him step by step to a “dualistic” vision of existence, with a radical divide between the physical body and the purely spiritual “mind”. Mid-20th century behaviorist Gilbert Ryle famously criticized this approach to the philosophy of mind for its absurd attempt to artificially parse out the parts of personhood, likening Descartes’ concept of the “soul” to a “ghost in the machine”. The terms were aptly chosen, and the 17th century French thinker probably wouldn’t even have disagreed with them, considering his willingness to describe all non-human animals as “machines”. Today, very few philosophers would accept the strong version of Descartes’ body/mind argument – but humanity at large seems more disposed than...
Directed & Written by Liz Marshall
Canada, 2012
Modern Western philosophical patriarch René Descartes is probably best known for his pithy dictum: cogito ergo sum (“I think, therefore I am”) – a formulation which led him step by step to a “dualistic” vision of existence, with a radical divide between the physical body and the purely spiritual “mind”. Mid-20th century behaviorist Gilbert Ryle famously criticized this approach to the philosophy of mind for its absurd attempt to artificially parse out the parts of personhood, likening Descartes’ concept of the “soul” to a “ghost in the machine”. The terms were aptly chosen, and the 17th century French thinker probably wouldn’t even have disagreed with them, considering his willingness to describe all non-human animals as “machines”. Today, very few philosophers would accept the strong version of Descartes’ body/mind argument – but humanity at large seems more disposed than...
- 4/28/2013
- by David Fiore
- SoundOnSight
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