Sundance

Sundance 2018 wrap-up!

Posted 8 years ago

I can’t believe it’s already over! It felt like just yesterday I was writing about how excited I was to be covering the Sundance Film Festival for my eighth year, but, over twenty reviews later, it’s in the books. Overall,...

Review: Ophelia (Sundance)

Posted 8 years ago

PLOT: Shakespeare’s Hamlet, as re-imagined from the perspective of his lover, Ophelia (Daisy Ridley). REVIEW: OPHELIA is the worst thing to happen to Shakespeare since Roland Emmerich’s Oxfordian theory film, ANONYMOUS. However well-intentioned it may be, it plays like some...

Review: Won’t You Be My Neighbour (Sundance)

Posted 8 years ago

PLOT: The life and career of beloved children’s entertainer Fred Rogers, from his humble beginnings as a seminary student, to his eventual iconic rise as the star of “Mister Rogers’s Neighborhood.” REVIEW: To those of us of a certain age,...

Assassination Nation (Sundance Review)

Posted 8 years ago

PLOT: The citizens of a small town collectively lose their minds after a hacker leaks all their cell-phone data online. Desperate, fourteen girls become the target of the enraged town due to flimsy evidence linking them to the crime. REVIEW:...

Review: Assassination Nation (Sundance)

Posted 8 years ago

PLOT: The citizens of a small town collectively lose their minds after a hacker leaks all their cell-phone data online. Desperate, fourteen girls become the target of the enraged town due to flimsy evidence linking them to the crime. REVIEW:...

Review: Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind (Sundance)

Posted 8 years ago

PLOT: The life of Robin Williams, as told through archival footage and interviews with those who knew him best. REVIEW: There were sobs heard inside the Park City Holiday Village Cinema when journalists finally got to see the eagerly anticipated...

Review: Hearts Beat Loud (Sundance)

Posted 8 years ago

PLOT: A single dad (Nick Offerman) starts a band with his college-bound daughter (Kiersey Clemons) in the summer before she leaves for school. REVIEW: Writer-director Brett Haley has a better Sundance record than most. His last two films, I’LL SEE...

Review: A Futile and Stupid Gesture (Sundance)

Posted 8 years ago

PLOT: The rise and fall of National Lampoon, as seen through the eyes of its two founders, Doug Kenney (Will Forte) and Henry Beard (Domhnall Gleeson). REVIEW: It’s clear that all involved with A FUTILE AND STUPID GESTURE idolize the...

Hereditary (Sundance Review)

Posted 8 years ago

PLOT: A seemingly happy family is un-moored by a tragedy, but dark forces are at work that put their very souls in jeopardy. REVIEW: Watching HEREDITARY will no doubt be akin to a religious awakening for some genre fans. The...

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