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Sundance 2025: If I Had Legs I’d Kick You, The Thing with Feathers, Rabbit Trap

by admin|5 months ago26 January 2025|Roger Ebert

On three big premieres from Sundance, all about brutal, near-hallucinatory states. It's tough out there.

Sundance Review: Two Women Flips the Sex Comedy Script with Hilarious, Refreshing Frankness

by admin|5 months ago26 January 2025|The Film Stage

If, by and large, American cinema has taken a puritanical view on sex, leave it to our neighbors up north to craft a refreshingly frank, hilarious comedy of manners about seeking erotic pleasure when life has hit a dead end....

Sundance Film Festival 2025: Predators, The Stringer, FOLKTALES

by admin|5 months ago25 January 2025|Roger Ebert

On three excellent documentaries that premiered today at the Sundance Film Festival.

Sundance Review: OBEX is an Inventive, Lo-Fi, and Otherworldly Adventure

by admin|5 months ago25 January 2025|The Film Stage

While the likes of David Cronenberg’s Videodrome and Steven Lisberger’s TRON have examined the thrills and fears of humanity’s relationship with screens since the early ‘80s, there’s been a recent, renewed interest as the number of screens in one’s life...

Sundance 2025: Omaha, Bubble & Squeak

by admin|5 months ago25 January 2025|Roger Ebert

Two narrative competition films from Sundance 2025 of very different qualities.

The Things You Kill | 2025 Sundance Film Festival Review

by admin|5 months ago25 January 2025|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...

Sundance 2025 Review: ANDRE IS AN IDIOT, Stirring, Poignant End-of-Life Doc

by admin|5 months ago25 January 2025|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...

Sundance 2025: Twinless, Ricky, Jimpa

by admin|5 months ago25 January 2025|Roger Ebert

On three films from Sundance, including new works starring Stephan James, Dylan O'Brien, and John Lithgow.

Sundance 2025 Review: TWINLESS, Enthralling, Darkly Comic, Queer-Centered Bromance

by admin|5 months ago25 January 2025|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...