Authors: Daniel Kirkham
Sundance Film Review: Brief History of a Family
What a vibrant debut this is, feverish with ideas and energy. Whatever Lin’s next project is, he’s got no shortage of infectious ingenuity to pull it off. … read more
Sundance Film Review: Agent of Happiness
Agent of Happiness is a film that poses many questions, though the only answer it can give is that happiness is reliable only in its elusiveness. … read more
Sundance Film Review: Between the Temples
Nathan Silver’s comedy Between the Temples is bursting at its haphazardly-stitched seams with fun starring the hilarious duo Jason Schwartzman and Carol Kane. … read more
Sundance Film Review: I Saw The TV Glow
I Saw the TV Glow is funnier and warmer than Scheonbrun’s debut We’re All Going to the World’s Fair, but it’s also more genuinely frightening and disturbing. … read more
A Discussion on I’m ‘George Lucas’: A Connor Ratliff Story...
Since 2014, Ratliff has interviewed baffled celebrity guests in character as Lucas, at first on stage at Hell’s Kitchen’s UCB Theatre and, since the pandemic, over elaborately live streamed video conference calls. … read more
Sundance Film Review: The Outrun
The Outrun follows Saoirse Ronan’s character Rona through a cycle of victories and relapses as she seeks out a personal reset that will stick. … read more
Sundance Film Review: A Real Pain
In A Real Pain, two cousins reunite after their grandmother’s death for a trip to Poland, where old family tensions resurface. … read more
Sundance Film Review: A New Kind of Wilderness
After living in an isolated Norwegian forest, a family is forced to adapt to the modern world in Silje Evensmo Jacobsen’s A New Kind of Wilderness. … read more
Sundance Film Review: EVERY LITTLE THING
In EVERY LITTLE THING, a woman undertakes a transformative journey as she cares for wounded hummingbirds. … read more
Film Review: The Boy and the Heron
With The Boy and the Heron, Hayao Miyazaki looks boldly and joyfully into that unknown and lets his audience know that it’s okay for us to go on ahead. … read more