Sundance Film Festival

Sundance Film Festival 2021 Preview

Posted 5 years ago

Chris 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...

Review: Promising Young Woman

Posted 5 years ago

PLOT: A young med school dropout (Carey Mulligan) compulsively haunts dive bars and night clubs, looking to be picked up by predatory men to teach them painful lessons about consent. When an old friend (Bo Burnham) wanders back into her...

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Sundance Film Festival 2021 will meet audiences where they are

Posted 5 years ago

As has been the case with all industry events in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2021 Sundance Film Festival had to adapt to a new normal in order for the show to go on, and now they have...

Palm Springs movie review!

Posted 6 years ago

Previously reviewed at Sundance 2020 PLOT: Two strangers (Andy Samberg & Cristin Milioti) attending a wedding in Palm Springs find themselves stuck in an infinite time loop and forced to relive the same day over and over. REVIEW: I imagine...

Sundance 2020 Wrap-Up and 5 Best!

Posted 6 years ago

Chris And so it comes to an end – with my eleventh Sundance (in a row!) officially in the books. In many ways, this was a game changing year for the festival, with the advent of streaming more apparent than...

Review: Wendy (Sundance 2020)

Posted 6 years ago

PLOT: A young girl and her brothers leave their home so they can stay eternally youthful on a magical island lorded over by a magical creature the other children on the island call “mother.” REVIEW: This year’s Sundance Film Festival...

Review: The Glorias (Sundance 2020)

Posted 6 years ago

PLOT: The life of feminist icon Gloria Steinem, through her early days as a journalist through her role in the women’s rights movement in the 1960s and beyond. REVIEW: Julie Taymor is an interesting director. For my money, she’s up...

Review: Zola (Sundance 2020)

Posted 6 years ago

PLOT: Zola (Taylour Paige) meets Stefani (Riley Keough) while waitressing, and the two, who are both part-time strippers, immediately hit it off. Within twenty-four hours, they’re on their way to Florida for what’s supposed to be a weekend of stripping...

Review: Leap of Faith: William Friedkin on ‘The Exorcist’ (Sundance 2020)

Posted 6 years ago

PLOT: Director William Friedkin looks back at the process of making THE EXORCIST. REVIEW: It’s been fascinating to watch director Alexandre O. Philippe’s evolution as a documentarian. The first time I ever noticed his work with when he interviewed one...