Sundance 2022

Horror Movie Reviews

Resurrection Review

Posted 3 years ago

PLOT: A woman (Rebecca Hall) is traumatized when a former abusive partner (Tim Roth) re-enters her life twenty-two years after the fact. REVIEW: Consider the plot synopsis above. Does anything about that admittedly familiar-sounding premise suggest David Cronenberg references and...

Horror Movie Reviews

Watcher Review

Posted 4 years ago

PLOT: A young woman moves into a new apartment with her fiancé and is tormented by the feeling that she is being stalked by an unseen watcher in an adjacent building. REVIEW: The idea that someone may be watching us...

Movie Reviews

Dual Review

Posted 4 years ago

PLOT: A terminally ill woman named Sara (Karen Gillan) has a clone made so that its presence can ease the suffering of her grieving family when she passes away. However, when she goes into remission, she discovers that she’ll now...

Movie Reviews

After Yang Review

Posted 4 years ago

After Yang was reviewed at Sundance 2022. PLOT: In a future world where robots are purchased as companions for children, a family’s robot, Yang, malfunctions and shuts down. While the family daughter is devastated by the loss of her beloved...

Horror Movie Reviews

Fresh Review

Posted 4 years ago

Fresh was previously reviewed at Sundance 2022. PLOT: A young woman (Daisy Edgar-Jones) looking for love thinks she’s met the man (Sebastian Stan) of her dreams. He’s a wealthy, charming plastic surgeon, but – it turns out he has some...

Movie News

Sundance 2022 Wrap-Up: all the best movies from the fest

Posted 4 years ago

And so, another edition of the Sundance Film Festival has wrapped, leaving us with a bunch of solid films to look forward to as the year goes on. While the festival had to pivot to a digital edition at the...

Movie Reviews

Living (Sundance) Review

Posted 4 years ago

PLOT: A hopeless bureaucrat (Bill Nighy) working in post-war England discovers that he only has a few months to live. REVIEW: It’s a pretty daring move to remake Akira Kurosawa, but director Oliver Hermanus and screenwriter Kazuo Ishiguro have done...

TV Reviews

We Need to Talk About Cosby (Sundance) TV Review

Posted 4 years ago

PLOT: Comic/filmmaker W. Kamau Bell explores the troubling legacy of the iconic Bill Cosby. REVIEW: The overall intent of Showtime’s new four-part doc, We Need to Talk About Cosby, is right there in the title. This isn’t an expose but...

Movie Reviews

Cha Cha Real Smooth (Sundance) Review

Posted 4 years ago

PLOT: A twenty-two-year-old college grad (Cooper Raiff) working as a bar mitzvah party starter strikes up a friendship with the young mother (Dakota Johnson) and an autistic girl (Vanessa Burghardt). REVIEW: Writer-director-actor Cooper Raiff is quickly becoming an indie darling....

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