Of all the major film festivals, it’s perhaps the Sundance folks who have built the deepest ties with the filmmaker community and much of this stems from the alumni relationships formed from having programmed a short and sometimes, as is...
It’s hard to say what’s more endearing about Takashi Miike these days: that the director of Audition and Ichi The Killer is still out there producing work at the same, alarming rate (his last release, a TV movie remake of...
The first trailer for Marvel's The Fantastic Four: First Steps was released this morning. Due for release this Summer this is our first look at the latest stab at depicting the first superhero team created by Jack Kirby and Stan Lee....
With an evocative opening-credits sequence as the camera swirls through a virtual landscape of neon signs and lights, one might think they are witnessing the beginning of the next Gaspar Noé film. Thankfully what follows in Flora Lau’s second feature...
Evoking Gordon Park’s black-and-white photographs of the New Deal Era, cinematographer Brittany Shyne’s powerful debut feature Seeds offers a portrait of a disappearing way of life for Black farmers in the American South. Its casual approach mostly reflects rhythms of...
Early one morning, a single father and widower (John Magaro)––credited as Dad––wakes up his perceptive nine-year-old Ella (Molly Belle Wright) and mischievous six-year-old Charlie (Wyatt Solis) and asks them to pack a suitcase as quickly as they can. Everyone is...
There is an unbridled honesty to André Is an Idiot that is admirable, even if all of it doesn’t really work. It’s a simple, stark subject for a documentary: accomplished advertising creative André Ricciardi neglected to get a colonoscopy at...
Among the select few documentary short films chosen for the 2025 Sundance Film Festival is Death Education, a poignant story set in China in places we don’t always associate with the final resting place. Following a high school teacher who...