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Sundance Review: Luther: Never Too Much is a Captivating Yet Minor Portrait of a Major Talent
by admin|3 months ago|The Film Stage
Filled with wonderful musical performances exploring the 30-year career of Luther Vandross, Dawn Porter’s sweeping biographical documentary Luther: Never Too Much interweaves archival materials and new interviews in a manner that is effective at telling the story but somehow feels...
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Sundance 2024 Review: BETWEEN THE TEMPLES, A Cantor Finds His Voice In Life and Love
by admin|3 months ago|Screen Anarchy
Trauma in all its facets -- experience, understanding, reconciliation -- and indie dramas are practically synonymous at this point. That, however, doesn’t make trauma or its natural consequence, mourning, or how it’s explored through film, any less relevant or meaningful....
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Sound And Vision: David Slade
by admin|3 months ago|Screen Anarchy
In the article series Sound and Vision we take a look at music videos from notable directors. This week we look at several videos by director David Slade. David Slade is something of a conundrum for me. I find it...
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Abbott Elementary Is Back in Session With A Sweet, Subdued Season 3
by admin|3 months ago|Roger Ebert
It’s been a heck of a summer break for the faculty of “Abbott Elementary.” Originally slated to return in late 2023, ABC’s sunny, warmhearted sitcom about the hardworking teachers of a struggling Philadelphia public school suffered a months-long pushback due...
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Sundance 2024 Review: GHOSTLIGHT, William Shakespeare, Family Therapist
by admin|3 months ago|Screen Anarchy
Coming-of-age stories are practically a sub-genre of their own. Coming-of-middle-age stories, however, tend to be, if not few and far between, then far more rare. That’s likely due to studio perceptions of what does and doesn’t sell: young adult-oriented films,...
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Sundance 2024 Review: I SAW THE TV GLOW, Enthralling Exploration of Cult Fandoms, Nostalgia, and Trans Identity
by admin|3 months ago|Screen Anarchy
In writer-director Jane Schoenbrun’s (We're All Going to the World's Fair) second feature-length film, I Saw the TV Glow, cult fandoms, the positives and perils inherent in nostalgia (tonic or toxin), and the boundless search for personal identity, specifically trans...
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Rotterdam 2024 Review: FLATHEAD, Australian Pastoral
by admin|3 months ago|Screen Anarchy
Australian filmmaker Jaydon Martin blurs the lines between documentary and narrative storytelling, offering a lyrical exploration of life's complexities through the lens of a blue-collar community in rural Australia. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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Sundance 2024 Review: THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF MAGICAL NEGROES, Surface-Deep Satire Flounders on Rom-Com Shores
by admin|3 months ago|Screen Anarchy
Filmmaker Spike Lee generally gets credit for inserting the “magical negro” phrase into pop culture more than two decades ago, but the idea itself dates back decades, if not longer. Coined to reflect the tradition in fiction or film of...
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Rotterdam 2024 Review: TENEMENT, A Haunted House With A Weak Foundation
by admin|3 months ago|Screen Anarchy
Tenement proves that a good ghost story can't get by on visuals alone. This Cambodian genre film by Inrasothythep Neth and Sokyou Chea deserves some praise because it is the rare horror effort out of that country. But when push...
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Rotterdam 2024 Review: HUNGRY GHOST DINER Offers A Feast For The Eyes And Soul
by admin|3 months ago|Screen Anarchy
Bonnie is the sole employee of a food truck, having fallen in love with cooking after a slightly magical-realist experience she had as a child. When she meets up with her estranged uncle, lines between life and death, dream and...
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