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Sundance 2025: The Perfect Neighbor, The Alabama Solution, Zodiac Killer Project
by admin|5 months ago|Roger Ebert
On three fantastic documentaries of Sundance 2025 that challenge how we tell stories of crime.
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January 2025 Blu-Ray Guide: “Hundreds of Beavers,” “Smile 2,” “Venom: The Last Dance,” and More
by admin|5 months ago|Roger Ebert
The month's best Blu-ray and streaming releases.
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‘Plainclothes’ Review: Carmen Emmi’s Intensely Subjective Tale of Queer Shame and Desire
by admin|5 months ago|Slant Magazine
In the harsh light of 2025, the film’s snapshot of its 1997 setting doesn’t look like yesterday. The post ‘Plainclothes’ Review: Carmen Emmi’s Intensely Subjective Tale of Queer Shame and Desire appeared first on Slant Magazine.
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Sundance 2025 Review: KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN, Politics, Queerness, and Jennifer Lopez
by admin|5 months ago|Screen Anarchy
As countries on both sides of the Atlantic careen uncontrollably towards illiberalism, authoritarian, and fascism, art as an act of resistance, opposition, or defiance gains ever greater importance.   That includes an oft-adapted work, such as Manuel Puig’s 1976 postmodern...
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Sundance Review: If I Had Legs I’d Kick You Sets Rose Byrne in a Tense Nightmare
by admin|5 months ago|The Film Stage
Many films, from the classic melodrama Mildred Pierce to last year’s playful dramedy Nightbitch, have tried to depict the unique struggles of motherhood with a focus on the special intimacy of child-rearing. Mothers have long borne the brunt and most...
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Sundance Review: Love, Brooklyn Traces a Tender Romance Through a Vague Borough
by admin|5 months ago|The Film Stage
You can feel the warm breeze filtering through Love, Brooklyn, a gentle, dream-like summer movie that often teeters on the edge of reality. Rachael Abigail Holder’s debut feature, written by Paul Zimmerman, doesn’t necessarily drift in and out of abstract fantasy,...
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Sundance Review: Predators Examines the Moral Complexities of a Hit Reality Show
by admin|5 months ago|The Film Stage
Filmmaker David Osit gives viewers a lot to wrestle with in Predators, his documentary about the reality show To Catch a Predator, which captured the zeitgeist of the early 2000s. In the show, host Chris Hansen confronted adult men who...
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New to Streaming: Sundance 2025, Sing Sing, Babygirl, Den of Thieves 2: Pantera & More
by admin|5 months ago|The Film Stage
Each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit streaming platforms in the United States. Check out this week’s selections below and past round-ups here. 2025 Sundance Film Festival While Sundance Film Festival kicked off last week in Park...
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Frank Ocean Has Begun Shooting His Directorial Debut
by admin|5 months ago|The Film Stage
If the four-year gap between Frank Ocean’s debut studio album Channel Orange and his follow-ups Endless and Blonde felt long, it’s now been over double the wait to see if another album will ever materialize from the wunderkind artist. We...
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Sundance Review: Eva Victor’s Debut Sorry, Baby is a Singular Revelation
by admin|5 months ago|The Film Stage
Agnes’ (Eva Victor) life is defined by a sense of stagnancy. Four years after completing grad school in rural New England, she’s living in the same house and going to the same building, only now as a professor. Whatever true...
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