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Sundance Review: If I Had Legs I’d Kick You Sets Rose Byrne in a Tense Nightmare
by admin|1 year 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|1 year 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|1 year 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|1 year 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|1 year 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|1 year 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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Sundance 2025: Train Dreams; Sorry, Baby
by admin|1 year ago|Roger Ebert
On my two favorite films of Sundance 2025, and two of the best Sundance premieres ever.
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‘Bubble & Squeak’ Review: An Absurdist Lark with a Bittersweet Aftertaste
by admin|1 year ago|Slant Magazine
If all that it had going for it was its gonzo concept, the film would be a pretty dire affair. The post ‘Bubble & Squeak’ Review: An Absurdist Lark with a Bittersweet Aftertaste appeared first on Slant Magazine.
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A Conversation with Charlie Shackleton (ZODIAC KILLER PROJECT)
by admin|1 year ago|Hammer to Nail
Charlie Shackleton wasn’t a true crime documentary maker, but he figured it was time to visit the genre. Everyone else making documentaries seem to be dipping into the true crime well, in fact I wonder how many crimes there are...
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Rotterdam 2025 Review: FABULA, Chaos In The Peatlands
by admin|1 year ago|Screen Anarchy
The Dutch film Fabula, the opening film of the International Film Festival Rotterdam 2025, employs every possible means to tell its story—its fabula. The film, much like its protagonist, the 55-year-old petty criminal Jos (played by renowned Dutch actor Fedja van Huêt),...
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