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Sundance Review: The Perfect Neighbor is a Harrowing Indictment of Stand-Your-Ground Laws
by admin|2 years ago|The Film Stage
First coming under wider scrutiny in 2005 when passed in Florida, the stand-your-ground law allows property owners to use deadly force to defend their home from trespassers. The foreseeable result has been an uptick in homicides and a proven racial...
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DJ Ahmet | 2025 Sundance Film Festival Review
by admin|2 years ago|Ioncinema
All DJs, Great and Small: Unkovski’s Debut Can’t Stop the Music While its location might feel inherently unique, the happenings in Georgi M. Unkovski’s narrative debut DJ Ahmet sing a familiar tune. A coming-of-age trajectory defined by the formidable temptation...
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On David Lynch
by admin|2 years ago|Screen Anarchy
It's not often that the team at ScreenAnarchy feels a loss like we have with David Lynch. And we're not alone; since last Thursday, I've seen an outpouring of love, sadness, and remembering that I've not seen the like of...
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Jazzy Trailer: Morrisa Maltz’s The Unknown Country Expansion Arrives in February
by admin|2 years ago|The Film Stage
Expanding the cinematic universe of her first feature The Unknown Country, Morrisa Maltz’s Jazzy premiered at last year’s Tribeca Festival and will now arrive in theaters and VOD starting February 7 from vertical. With a cast including Jasmine Bearkiller Shangreaux and Syriah...
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Sundance 2025: Brides, Where the Wind Comes From, Two Women
by admin|2 years ago|Roger Ebert
This year's World Cinema Dramatic Competition features three films all about characters on spiritual, physical, and sexual journeys toward new versions of themselves.
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Sundance 2025: Sunfish (and Other Stories on Green Lake), Plainclothes
by admin|2 years ago|Roger Ebert
On two U.S. Competition films from Sundance, including one that feels like home.
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2025 Sundance Video Diaries Days 1-3: April, Twinless, If I Had Legs I’d Kick You, Atropia & More!
by admin|2 years 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...
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Sundance 2025 Review: BRIDES, Empathetic, Sympathetic Cautionary Tale
by admin|2 years 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...
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Sundance 2025 Review: RABBIT TRAP, Auditory Wonders, Stunning Visuals, Abstract Narrative
by admin|2 years 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)...
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‘The Legend of Ochi’ Review: A24 Goes Amblin in a Wacky, Winning Family Adventure
by admin|2 years 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.
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