Sundance Film Festival

Review: Locke (Sundance 2014)

Posted 12 years ago

PLOT Ivan Locke (Tom Hardy)- a site manager on the eve of a multimillion dollar construction project- makes a fateful decision and skips out on his job to hop the M6 in his BMW in a race against time to...

Review: Whiplash (Sundance 2014)

Posted 12 years ago

PLOT: A young drummer (Miles Teller) toils under a ruthless instructor (J.K. Simmons) in the pursuit of ultimate perfection in his music. REVIEW: One of the best things about attending a festival like Sundance is that you get to go...

First wave of Sundance 2014 films announced; check out the genre highlights

Posted 12 years ago

The 2014 Sundance Film Festival is right around the corner, coming at us January 16-26 in Park City, Salt Lake City, Ogden, and Sundance, Utah, and the first wave of films have been announced. Today we have a look at...

Review: The Lifeguard

Posted 13 years ago

Previously reviewed as part of JoBlo.com’s Sundance 2013 coverage. PLOT: Leigh (Kristen Bell) is an NYC journalist going through a crisis. She abandons her job, and heads back to her hometown, where she moves in with her parents (Amy Madigan...

Review: The Spectacular Now

Posted 13 years ago

(This film was originally reviewed as part of JoBlo.com's 2013 Sundance Film Festival Coverage) PLOT: Sutter (Miles Teller) is a high school senior who thinks he has it all figured out. He's ultra-popular at his school, has a gorgeous girlfriend...

Review: Hell Baby

Posted 13 years ago

PLOT: Jack (Rob Corddry) and Vanessa (Leslie Bibb) are an expectant couple, who move into an infamously cursed house in a run-down section of New Orleans. Within days, Vanessa starts acting strangely, and Jack becomes convinced she’s somehow possessed. Meanwhile,...

Review: Crystal Fairy

Posted 13 years ago

Note: This review originally ran as part of our Sundance coverage in January. PLOT: Jamie (Michael Cera) is in Chile on a non-stop drug binge, with the ultimate goal of trying a shamanistic hallucinogen called the San Pedro Cactus. He...

Review: The East

Posted 13 years ago

THE EAST was originally reviewed as part of JoBlo.com’s 2013 Sundance coverage. PLOT: An undercover operative (Britt Marling) for a private security group is sent to infiltrate a radical cell of activist extremists- called “The East”. As she gets deeper...

Review: Upstream Color

Posted 13 years ago

This review originally ran as part of our Sundance 2013 coverage. PLOT: Kris (Amy Seimetz) is an ambitious exec who, after a chance encounter at a nightclub, wakes up after several days to find she’s lost her job, along with...

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