Arts
Sundance Film Review: Skywalkers: A Love Story
Part-thriller, part-romance and part-heist film, Skywalkers performs a delicate balance of genres that pays-off with a climax that elicited two cheers and a standing ovation from its premiere audience. … read more
Sundance Film Review: Freaky Tales
Freaky Tales follows four stories that gradually intersect and entangle, though the end product feels more like a mixtape than an anthology. … read more
Sundance Film Review: The American Society of Magical Negroes
The American Society of Magical Negroes is a daring, exquisitely crafted film that succeeds on every level, entertaining while educating and, most importantly, giving voice to thoughts and feelings that need to be shared and heard. … 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
Sundance Film Review: Handling the Undead
Handling the Undead is a well-crafted re-contextualization of a familiar monster that ruminates on how to mourn loss when it’s staring you in the face. … read more
Interactive AI Storyteller “Being” Leads Decolonization Workshop at Sundance 2024
Being (the Digital Griot) is one of just two selections for the 2024 Sundance Film Festival’s New Frontier, the most experimental category of programming which showcases innovative works at the intersection of film, art and technology … read more
Pathfinder: Reclaiming the Native Narrative with Winding Path
The team behind Sundance film Winding Path strives to offer a counternarrative to Native stereotypes and reclaim the Wind River Reservation as a place for positive stories to be told. … read more
Holding Space for First-Time Filmmakers: An Interview with Sundance
SLUG spoke with Heidi Zwicker, a Senior Programmer with the Sundance Institute, to speak on the 40th Edition Festival season and its intention to support a variety of artists. … 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: Theater Camp
The subject of Theater Camp is ripe for comedy, but it feels painfully forced if it’s not done right. Thankfully, this one more or less succeeds. … 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: Fancy Dance
Fancy Dance stands as both a cry for help for the victimized and missing and a defiant cry of strength from those who refuse to stop looking for them. … read more
