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Playback: Rian Johnson, Twists and Turns, from BRICK to WAKE UP DEAD MAN
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Rian Johnson wants you on the edge of your seat. The American director delights in twisting beloved genres into razor-sharp puzzles, from slick noir capers to sci-fi paradoxes. His films are (mostly) clever, without condescension. In Brick (2005), he drops...
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2026 Sundance: Josephine Decker, David Wain, Macon Blair, Jay Duplass , Olivia Wilde & Gregg Araki in Premieres Section
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Lots of familiar Park City faces are among the fiction and non-fiction heavyweights that make up the Premieres section. Josephine Decker brings Chasing Summer – Iliza Shlesinger toplines the film that takes place in a small Texas backdrop. David Wain...
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2026 Sundance: Rachel Lambert, Beth de Araújo & Josef Kubota Wladyka in U.S. Dramatic Comp
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Catch the Fair One‘s Josef Kubota Wladyka, Sometimes I Think About Dying‘s Rachel Lambert and Soft & Quiet‘s Beth de Araújo are among the ten filmmakers heading into U.S. Dramatic Competition section at next year’s Sundance Film Festival. They’ll all...
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2026 Sundance: Visar Morina, Myrsini Aristidou & Suzanne Andrews Correa in World Cinema Dramatic Comp
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Myrsini Aristidou, Visar Morina and Suzanne Andrews Correa are among the ten filmmakers selected for World Cinema Dramatic Competition. Cyprus born filmmaker Myrsini Aristidou has been workshopping her feature debut for some time now (she was selected for Sundance in...
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Sundance Film Festival Unveils 2026 Lineup
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The first taste of what independent cinema has to offer in 2026 has arrived with the unveiling of the Sundance Film Festival lineup. Taking place January 22–February 1, 2026, in person in Park City and Salt Lake City, Utah, with the...
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Sundance Film Festival Announces 2026 Line-Up
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The Sundance Film Festival is back!
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‘Ella McCay’ Review: Sentimentality Runs for Office in James L. Brook’s Political Dramedy
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Ella McCay seeks to project optimism in a time of unrelenting divisiveness. The post ‘Ella McCay’ Review: Sentimentality Runs for Office in James L. Brook’s Political Dramedy appeared first on Slant Magazine.
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“ELLA MCCAY”
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THE STORY – Set in an unnamed state in 2008, an idealistic 34-year-old lieutenant governor juggles familial issues and a challenging work life while preparing to take over the job of her mentor, the state’s longtime incumbent governor, who suddenly accepts...
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A Look At The 2025 Oscar Race For Best Costume Design
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From fantastical gowns to standard period fare, the Best Costume Design Oscar category this year has become more of a race than last year’s obvious win for “Wicked.” Both the sequel, “Wicked: For Good,” and Guillermo del Toro’s incredible visual spectacle, “Frankenstein,” seem...
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LONE SAMURAI Review: A Mythic Promise Gets Washed Ashore
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Legend says Japan was saved twice by a miracle. In 1274 and again in 1281, as Kublai Khan's Mongol forces advanced to conquer the archipelago, samurai mounted a desperate coastal defense, only for brutal typhoons to surge in and tear...
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