admin

Sundance 2025: Sunfish (and Other Stories on Green Lake), Plainclothes
by admin|5 months ago|Roger Ebert
On two U.S. Competition films from Sundance, including one that feels like home.
continue reading
2025 Sundance Video Diaries Days 1-3: April, Twinless, If I Had Legs I’d Kick You, Atropia & More!
by admin|5 months ago|Ioncinema
One of the only two films selected for the Spotlight section (films that have premiered elsewhere on the festival circuit), Georgian filmmaker Dea Kulumbegashvili continues to distinguish herself with international programmers and audiences – the Park City splash for April...
continue reading
Sundance 2025 Review: BRIDES, Empathetic, Sympathetic Cautionary Tale
by admin|5 months ago|Screen Anarchy
Deftly directed by Nadia Fall from Suhayla El-Bushra's multi-layered screenplay, Brides examines a relatively recent, ripped-from-the-headlines subject ripe for sensationalism and exploitation.   Namely, the subject is Western-born or -raised Muslim women who left the West behind for the illusory...
continue reading
Sundance 2025 Review: RABBIT TRAP, Auditory Wonders, Stunning Visuals, Abstract Narrative
by admin|5 months ago|Screen Anarchy
Nothing, positively nothing, good comes out of purchasing a decades-old farmhouse in the middle of Wales. Or anywhere else, for that matter.   In Bryn Chainey’s contribution to the ever-expanding folk horror sub-genre, Rabbit Trap, Darcy (Oscar nominee Dev Patel)...
continue reading
‘The Legend of Ochi’ Review: A24 Goes Amblin in a Wacky, Winning Family Adventure
by admin|5 months ago|Slant Magazine
A simplicity of spirit guides writer-director Isaiah Saxon’s fable-like feature debut. The post ‘The Legend of Ochi’ Review: A24 Goes Amblin in a Wacky, Winning Family Adventure appeared first on Slant Magazine.
continue reading
Sundance Review: The Ballad of Wallis Island Strums a Charming Story of Moving On
by admin|5 months ago|The Film Stage
You know when you hear a song and it transports you back to an era or a memory or a moment? It’s this involuntary mental reflex that can be marvelous, painful, or some combination of the two; all intensified by...
continue reading
TWINLESS
by admin|5 months ago|Hammer to Nail
(The 2025 Sundance Film Festival runs January 23- February 2 in and around gorgeous Park City, UT. HtN has you covered for all the hottest titkes like Matt Delman’s Twinless movie review. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd...
continue reading
‘Picnic at Hanging Rock’ Review: Peter Weir’s Ethereal Portrait of Young Lives on a Precipice
by admin|5 months ago|Slant Magazine
The film’s sun-hued, bucolic images convey nature’s eerie, ambivalent power over all. The post ‘Picnic at Hanging Rock’ Review: Peter Weir’s Ethereal Portrait of Young Lives on a Precipice appeared first on Slant Magazine.
continue reading
Sundance Review: Sunfish (& Other Stories on Green Lake) Captures a Bittersweet Longing
by admin|5 months ago|The Film Stage
Filmmaker Sierra Falconer’s Sunfish (& Other Stories on Green Lake) captures a bittersweet feeling. That feeling of endings and beginnings, happening at the same time. For eighty minutes, we watch four short stories unfold in and around Green Lake. One...
continue reading
‘The Dating Game’ Review: Violet Du Feng’s Scattered Look at China’s Loneliness Epidemic
by admin|5 months ago|Slant Magazine
As it jumps from topic to topic, the film leaves one feeling as if it has no center of gravity. The post ‘The Dating Game’ Review: Violet Du Feng’s Scattered Look at China’s Loneliness Epidemic appeared first on Slant Magazine.
continue reading