Slamdance Film Review: They Look Like People

Slamdance Film Review: They Look Like People
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It boggles my mind that the slight movement of someone’s jaw, a bottle of sulfuric acid and a nail gun combine for the most terrifying film I’ve seen this decade. … read more

Slamdance Film Review: Across the Sea

Slamdance Film Review: Across the Sea
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While the All-American Kevin is eager to learn about Damla’s roots, she is just as eager to avoid them, and when local fisher Burak reappears in her life, tensions begin to arise as her old life catches up to her new one. … read more

Slamdance Film Review: On Her Own

Slamdance Film Review: On Her Own
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Director Morgan Schmidt-Feng begins on a happy note in 2009, showing the Prebilichs benefiting from the well-earned fruits of hard labor. With help from Cindy’s husband and three young kids, Nancy struggles to keep the farm afloat in the face of debt and loss. … read more

Slamdance Film Review: I Am Thor

Slamdance Film Review: I Am Thor
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With a music career spanning five decades, Jon Mikl Thor is perhaps one of the legends of rock and metal that you definitely need to be aware of. … read more

Slamdance Film Review: Sweet Micky For President

Slamdance Film Review: Sweet Micky For President
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In this musically-satiated documentary, Michel ‘Sweet Micky’ Martelly begins his political journey to become Haiti’s President. … read more

Slamdance Film Review: Batkid Begins: The Wish Heard Around the World

Slamdance Film Review: Batkid Begins: The Wish Heard Around the...
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Batkid Begins shows us what is possible when people work together, care about each other and create true community with one another. … read more

Slamdance Film Review: Trees That Walk (Alberi che Camminano)

Slamdance Film Review: Trees That Walk (Alberi che Camminano)
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Trees That Walk follows the path of wood as it’s cut down, cut up, shaped and turned into lumber for homes, works of art, musical instruments and more. … read more

Slamdance Film Review: 20 Years of Madness

Slamdance Film Review: 20 Years of Madness
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The doc’s director, Jeremy Royce, deftly illuminates the tensions that arise between the veteran cast members, using footage from the original show to unearth the anxieties that dissolved the group in the first place. … read more

Slamdance Film Review: Bloodsucking Bastards

Slamdance Film Review: Bloodsucking Bastards
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In the first feature film written by the comedy genius team Dr. God, Fran Kranz plays Evan, an overworked call center employee who can’t seem to find his way up the corporate ladder. … read more

Slamdance Film Review: Birds of Neptune

Slamdance Film Review: Birds of Neptune
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Free to mature under each other’s care in their childhood home in the Pacific Northwest, the sisters have developed their own ways of coping—demure Rachel (Britt Harris) retreats into making music, while Mona (Molly Elizabeth Parker) escapes into performances of wild characters, such as the “Nazi androgynous cabaret dancer,” who wears a 10” strap-on dildo. … read more