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Sundance 2025 Review: TOGETHER, Body Horror Meets Folk Horror in Genre Mash-Up
by admin|5 months ago|Screen Anarchy
As a corollary to the “don’t buy a farmhouse in the middle of nowhere” folk-horror trope, don’t venture off-trail, negligently slip and fall into a massive hole in the ground. And whatever you do, don’t drink any water you find...
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Hulu’s “Paradise” Blends Murder Mystery with High-Concept Storytelling
by admin|5 months ago|Roger Ebert
A consistently easy watch, only feeling hollow in retrospect. It moves quickly enough that you don’t really notice it’s not nutritionally satisfying. Sometimes that doesn’t matter.
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First Trailer for Andrew Ahn’s The Wedding Banquet Updates an Ang Lee Classic
by admin|5 months ago|The Film Stage
Ang Lee may be taking some time getting his next movie off the ground as his Bruce Lee biopic aims to finally start production this year, but first, one of his early classics is getting a modern update. The latest...
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Sundance 2025: Bunnylovr, Atropia, Love, Brooklyn
by admin|5 months ago|Roger Ebert
On three U.S. Dramatic Competition films from this year's program.
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Sundance 2025: Rebuilding, Together, Peter Hujar’s Day
by admin|5 months ago|Roger Ebert
On three of the best films of Sundance 2025.
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Sundance 2025 Review: ATROPIA, The Iraq War Redux, With Less Feeling
by admin|5 months ago|Screen Anarchy
Writer-director Hailey Gates' uproarious anti-war/anti-Bush satire, Atropia, arrives either a decade too late or, just as likely given the state of the world and its discontents, a decade too early.   Gates’ film brings audiences, willingly or not, back to...
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Sundance Review: Zodiac Killer Project is the True Crime Doc to End All True Crime Docs
by admin|5 months ago|The Film Stage
What would a feature-length director commentary look like when the film was never made? This is the slippery, fascinating conceit of Charlie Shackleton’s rather brilliant Zodiac Killer Project, which finds the director walking through his failed attempt to adapt Lyndon...
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Sauna | 2025 Sundance Film Festival Review
by admin|5 months ago|Ioncinema
Love Me If You Dare: Broe Explores Love in a Hopeless Place Harlan Ellison’s publication Love Ain’t Nothing But Sex Misspelled might be a more fitting title for Sauna, the directorial debut of Danish filmmaker Mathias Broe, in essence a...
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Sundance 2025: 2000 Meters from Andriivka, Cutting Through Rocks, Khartoum
by admin|5 months ago|Roger Ebert
Three films in the World Cinema Documentary Competition tell stories from countries in the midst of conflict.
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Sundance Review: Rebuilding is a Somber Reflection on the Importance of Hope
by admin|5 months ago|The Film Stage
We can all feel lonely. Even if we’re constantly surrounded by people, we can find ourselves detached or isolated—lost in our own minds. For some, that feeling is brought on by devastation. The kind that arrives out of nowhere, takes...
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