Month: January 2023
Sundance Film Review: When It Melts
Despite the immense talent involved, Sundance film When it Melts is a frustrating failure both as a film and as a statement on an important and timely topic. … read more
Director Toby Genkel on The Amazing Maurice and That Pratchett...
Director Toby Genkel’s new film, The Amazing Maurice, a subversively cynical animated take on the Pied Piper of Hamelin’s story. … read more
Sundance Film Review: STILL: A Michael J. Fox Movie
Sundance biopic STILL: A Michael J. Fox Movie provokes plenty of emotion without ever stooping to being a manipulative tearjerker. … read more
Sundance Film Review: Blueback
Starring Mia Wasikowska, the Sundance feature Blueback is an entertaining family film that wears its conservationist credentials on its sleeve. … read more
Sundance Film Review: A Little Prayer
The family drama A Little Prayer is a reminder that the once-budding young playwright and filmmaker Angus MacLachlan has come a long way. … read more
Sundance Film Review: Eileen
Eileen is an engaging, pulpy diversion that plays like an old-fashioned dime novel you had never planned to read but find that you can’t put down. … read more
Sundance Film Review: Slow
Described as a portrait of a “beautiful bond,” Slow is instead a grim character study of a deeply unlikable individual with a regressive view of sexuality. … read more
Review: Beauty Pill – Blue Period
Beauty Pill = Pixies + Dry Cleaning + La Luz … read more
Review: Billy Nomates – Cacti
Billy Nomates = The Smiths + Lorde … read more
Sundance Film Review: Run Rabbit Run
Run Rabbit Run makes literal the terror of cyclic, generational trauma and manifests the underlying tension of carrying a burden of guilt into a new generation. … read more