Sundance Film Review: A Real Pain

Posted on January 21, 2024 (January 21, 2024) by Asha Pruitt

Two men stand next to each other, looking up at the sky.

In A Real Pain, two cousins reunite after their grandmother’s death for a trip to Poland, where old family tensions resurface. … read more

Slamdance Review: Bike Vessel

Posted on January 24, 2024 (January 23, 2024) by Asha Pruitt

A younger son has his arm around his older father while both are dressed in bike racing gear.

Bike Vessel is an intimate documentary where director Eric Seals undertakes a bike journey from St. Louis to Chicago with his father. … read more

Sundance Film Review: Winner

Posted on January 21, 2024 (January 21, 2024) by Asha Pruitt

A young woman stands in front of several American flags.

Winner is the story of Reality Winner, a Capitol Hill misfit who becomes an unlikely whistleblower for exposing Russia’s interference in the 2016 election. … read more

Slamdance Film Review: The Bitcoin Car

Posted on January 21, 2024 by Asha Pruitt

A young woman in a flower crown stands in disbelief in front of a shining gold-plated car.

The Bitcoin Car is a musical adventure blending the disparate worlds of goat farming and crypto mining. … read more

Slamdance Review: All I’ve Got & Then Some

Posted on January 22, 2024 (January 24, 2024) by Asha Pruitt

A young African-American man and an older Caucasian mad exchange glances over two stuffed clothing racks in a clothing store.

All I’ve Got & Then Some is a beautifully filmed and inspirational story that just needs to tighten its screws and narrow its path a little. … read more

Slamdance Film Review: Love and Work

Posted on January 21, 2024 (January 21, 2024) by Asha Pruitt

A bespectacled man in a polo and a dark-haired woman in a white blouse stare at each other in front of an industrial-style building.

Love and Work is about shoe factory hopefuls Diane and Fox, two people who love to work in a world where employment is outlawed. … read more

Sundance Film Review: My Old Ass

Posted on January 21, 2024 (January 22, 2024) by Asha Pruitt

Two women sit on a log, looking at each other.

In My Old Ass, Elliot meets her older self during a mushroom trip the summer before she leaves for college. … read more

Sundance Film Review: A New Kind of Wilderness

Posted on January 26, 2024 (January 25, 2024) by Asha Pruitt

A child sits on a pile of wood in the forest, arms outstretched.

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: Good One

Posted on January 23, 2024 (January 22, 2024) by Asha Pruitt

A teenage girl peeks through tree branches.

Good One explores teenage girlhood as 17-year-old Sam embarks on a weekend in the Catskills with her father and his longtime friend. … read more

Slamdance Film Review: Sam’s World

Posted on January 25, 2024 (May 21, 2024) by Asha Pruitt

A young couple embraces on a white bed, in a cathedral setting, is surrounded by candles and neon crosses.

Sam’s World explores the internal universe of its main character, Sam, a non-binary sex worker grappling with friendship, romance and a secret pregnancy. … read more

Slamdance Film Review: Anna’s Feelings

Posted on January 23, 2024 (January 23, 2024) by Asha Pruitt

A black and white image of a woman in a black pantsuit in a sea of other women in greyscale scrubs faces the opposite way of them.

In Anna’s Feelings, a Russian factory worker becomes an unlikely savior as she begins to hear the voices of extraterrestrial civilizations. … read more

Slamdance Film Review: Experimental Shorts Block

Posted on January 26, 2024 (January 29, 2024) by Asha Pruitt

A collection of stills from the Slamdance Experimental Shorts Block

No matter how abstract or avant-garde the methods of madness are, no one does experimental filmmaking better than the 2024 Slamdance Film Festival. Witness, if you will, six deviant directors and writers dispatching a visual display of 100% free-wandering consciousness. … read more