Sundance 2021

Movie Reviews

The Cursed Review

Posted 3 years ago

PLOT: In the late 19th century, a brutal landowner slaughters a Roma clan and finds his family cursed. When villagers start getting ripped to shreds by a wolf-like creature and his son is abducted, a pathologist (Boyd Holbrook) whose own family...

Movie Reviews

CODA Review

Posted 4 years ago

CODA was originally reviewed as part of our Sundance 2021 coverage. PLOT: Ruby (Emilia Jones) is a Child Of Deaf Adults (the abbreviation of which gives the film its title – Coda). The only hearing member in her household, she...

Ben Wheatley’s In The Earth, Sundance – (Horror Movie Review)

Posted 4 years ago

PLOT: In the middle of a pandemic, a scientist (Joel Fry) and a park scout (Ellora Torchia) venture deep into the forest to make contact with a lost doctor. REVIEW: One of the most pleasing aspects of this year’s edition...

Edgar Wright’s The Sparks Brothers (Review) Sundance

Posted 4 years ago

PLOT: An in-depth look at the band Sparks, which consists of brother Russell and Ron Mael. REVIEW: The first time I ever saw Sparks was in this 1977 disaster movie called Rollercoaster, which I caught on cable one day. They...

Judas and the Black Messiah (Review) Sundance

Posted 4 years ago

PLOT: William O’Neal (Lakeith Stanfield), a petty criminal, is recruited by the F.B.I to infiltrate the Black Panthers, so he can get close to the charismatic head of the Illinois chapter, Fred Hampton (Daniel Kaluuya). REVIEW: COINTELPRO remains one of...

Prisoners of the Ghostland (Review) Sundance

Posted 4 years ago

PLOT: In a strange place called “Samurai Town”, a notorious criminal (Nicolas Cage) is placed in a booby-trapped leather jumpsuit and sent into the mysterious Ghostland to save the abducted daughter (Sofia Boutella) of the town’s despot ruler. REVIEW: Last...

Passing (Tessa Thompson & Ruth Negga) Review (Sundance)

Posted 4 years ago

PLOT: A middle-class African-American woman (Tessa Thompson) living in Harlem during the 1920s, experiments with “Passing”, where she passes as white one day in a crowded tea room. While there, she discovers that an old childhood friend (Ruth Negga) of...

A Glitch in the Matrix (Review) Sundance

Posted 4 years ago

PLOT: This documentary digs into a school of thought that asks the question, what if reality as we know it isn’t real and we’re all living in a simulation? REVIEW: What if we were all living in a computer simulation?...

Sundance Film Festival 2021 Preview

Posted 4 years ago

Usually, around this time every year, I'd be gearing up for a big trip to Park City, Utah, for my beloved annual ten-day binge of movies, the Sundance Film Festival. Alas, like so many other things, the continuing pandemic means...