Sundance

XX (Movie Review)

Posted 9 years ago

NOTE: This review originally ran as part of our Sundance 2017 coverage PLOT: A new anthology directed solely by women: A woman is puzzled when her children stop eating, another mom tries her best to keep her daughter’s birthday from...

2017 Sundance Wrap-Up and Top 5

Posted 9 years ago

And so another edition of the Sundance Film Festival is in the books. The 2017 edition marked my eighth year wandering around Park City, Utah, and it was a memorable fest, with blizzard conditions in the first week, cyber-attacks, protests...

Berlin Syndrome (Sundance Review) starring Teresa Palmer

Posted 9 years ago

PLOT: An Australian backpacker (Teresa Palmer) traveling through Germany has a one-night stand with a stranger (Max Riemelt) only to discover the next morning that he’s made her a captive in his prison-like apartment. REVIEW: The premise for BERLIN SYNDROME...

Review: Sidney Hall (Sundance) starring Logan Lerman & Elle Fanning

Posted 9 years ago

PLOT: A young writer (Logan Lerman) drops off the face of the earth after his first two novels become best-sellers. Years later, an investigator (Kyle Chandler) tries to figure out what happened to him. REVIEW: Watching SIDNEY HALL at Sundance,...

Review: The Hero (Sundance) starring Sam Elliot

Posted 9 years ago

PLOT: Following a bleak medical diagnosis, an aging Western star (Sam Elliott) comes to terms with his mortality and tries to mend his fractured relationships – all the while hoping for one last shot at glory. REVIEW: Sam Elliott has...

Review: Berlin Syndrome (Sundance) starring Teresa Palmer

Posted 9 years ago

PLOT: An Australian backpacker (Teresa Palmer) traveling through Germany has a one-night stand with a stranger (Max Riemelt) only to discover the next morning that he’s made her a captive in his prison-like apartment. REVIEW: The premise for BERLIN SYNDROME...

Review: Walking Out (Sundance) starring Matt Bomer

Posted 9 years ago

PLOT: A fourteen-year-old city boy (Josh Wiggins) is forced to step-up in a big way after his hunter father (Matt Bomer) is badly wounded on a winter hunt, stranding the two of them deep in the wilderness. REVIEW: Hunting gets...

Review: Rebel in the Rye (Sundance) starring Nicholas Hoult

Posted 9 years ago

PLOT: The life of author J.D Salinger (Nicholas Hoult), from his early years as a student of Columbia lecturer Whit Burnett (Kevin Spacey), through his war years, to the publication of “The Catcher in the Rye.” REVIEW: Is there an...

Review: The Polka King (Sundance) starring Jack Black

Posted 9 years ago

PLOT: The true story of Jan Lewan (Jack Black), a Pennsylvania Polka sensation who ran a $5 million ponzi scheme, to the complete ignorance of his wife (Jenny Slate) and best friend/ band-mate (Jason Schwartzman. REVIEW: THE POLKA KING is...

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