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Sundance 2025: Omaha, Bubble & Squeak
by admin|4 months ago|Roger Ebert
Two narrative competition films from Sundance 2025 of very different qualities.
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The Things You Kill | 2025 Sundance Film Festival Review
by admin|4 months ago|Ioncinema
A Poison Tree: Khatami Deconstructs the Psychoses of Patriarchy For his third feature, Iranian American director Alireza Khatami formulates a powerful psychodrama unspooling through the microcosm of normalized patriarchal dysfunction in Turkey with The Things You Kill. Employing a surreal...
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Sundance 2025 Review: ANDRE IS AN IDIOT, Stirring, Poignant End-of-Life Doc
by admin|4 months ago|Screen Anarchy
By their nature, end-of-life documentaries often dwell on the hard, sometimes impossible choices that the living, the dying or soon-to-be dead have to make. Sometimes downbeat and sometimes depressing, end-of-life documentaries treat the subject matter with the respect, distance, and...
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Sundance 2025: Twinless, Ricky, Jimpa
by admin|4 months ago|Roger Ebert
On three films from Sundance, including new works starring Stephan James, Dylan O'Brien, and John Lithgow.
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Sundance 2025 Review: TWINLESS, Enthralling, Darkly Comic, Queer-Centered Bromance
by admin|4 months ago|Screen Anarchy
Films are often centered around a Big Lie.   In the case of multi-hyphenate director James Sweeney’s (Straight Up) enthrallingly dark, queer-centered comedy-drama, Twinless, it's a series of Big Lies, one bigger than the rest, that threaten to irrevocably derail...
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FLIGHT RISK Review: Thriller Delivers Awkward Jokes, No Thrills
by admin|4 months ago|Screen Anarchy
Mark Wahlberg, Michelle Dockery and Topher Grace star in director Mel Gibson's would-be thriller. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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‘The Things You Kill’ Review: A Thrilling Murder Mystery About Becoming What You Fear
by admin|4 months ago|Slant Magazine
Alireza Khatami’s third feature is a subtly enigmatic examination of the nature of masculinity. The post ‘The Things You Kill’ Review: A Thrilling Murder Mystery About Becoming What You Fear appeared first on Slant Magazine.
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‘GEN_’ Review: At a Milan Hospital, One Doctor Cultivates Kindness as Resistance
by admin|4 months ago|Slant Magazine
Gianluca Matarrese’s documentary is movingly premised on the responsibility of witness. The post ‘GEN_’ Review: At a Milan Hospital, One Doctor Cultivates Kindness as Resistance appeared first on Slant Magazine.
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Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another Test Screens, Confirmed to Be Modern Update on Vineland
by admin|4 months ago|The Film Stage
“I need to start figuring out what the f— to say,” Paul Thomas Anderson recently said when it came to his biggest project yet, a $115 million Warner Bros. summer tentpole with a cast featuring Leonardo DiCaprio, Sean Penn, Regina...
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A Long Fuse and a Big Bang: Russ Meyer’s ‘Vixen’ Cult Classic Sexploitation Trilogy
by admin|4 months ago|Slant Magazine
Russ Meyer was a veritable one-man band. The post A Long Fuse and a Big Bang: Russ Meyer’s ‘Vixen’ Cult Classic Sexploitation Trilogy appeared first on Slant Magazine.
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