Rob Zombie, Kevin Smith, and Danny Perez head Sundance 2016’s Midnight lineup
Believe it or not, but we’re just weeks away from hiking back up to Park City, Utah for another installment of the Sundance Film Festival. Okay, maybe not weeks, more like two months, but if you want...
View ArticleSundance Film Festival announces its 2016 lineup
The Sundance Film Festival returns once again to take over Park City, Utah from January 21st to the 31st. As one of the largest independent film festivals in America, the week-long event totals over...
View ArticleSundance Film Festival announces star-studded premieres for 2016 lineup
Now we’re talking: Sundance Film Festival has officially unveiled its exceptional slate of premieres for its 2016 installment. A few major highlights include exciting new documentaries by Spike Lee...
View ArticleThe 10 Most Anticipated Films at Sundance 2016
A year goes by fast. This time last year, our film staff was still arguing about the fake baby in American Sniper and preparing for our first-ever go-round at Park City’s annual celebration of...
View ArticleSundance Film Review: Other People
Bookmark and follow our exclusive coverage of the Sundance Film Festival 2016. “…are sad, too.” The performances are so strong in Other People that they just about make up for the weak storytelling....
View ArticleSundance Film Review: The Free World
Bookmark and follow our exclusive coverage of the Sundance Film Festival 2016. “Surrender.” The Free World comes along at an interesting time in our pop culture. The plot revolves around a man recently...
View ArticleSundance Film Review: Wiener-Dog
Bookmark and follow our exclusive coverage of the Sundance Film Festival 2016. “Everything has a beginning, and everything has an end.” This is one of many sobering life lessons we learn over time, but...
View ArticleSundance Film Review: The Lobster
Bookmark and follow our exclusive coverage of the Sundance Film Festival 2016. Love is perverse, and so are relationships. No matter how hard we try to understand the fabric of attraction, there’s no...
View ArticleSundance Film Review: The Greasy Strangler
Bookmark and follow our exclusive coverage of the Sundance Film Festival 2016. “B-U-L-L-S-H-I-T, new word, A-R-T-I-S-T!” I don’t remember the first time I saw Citizen Kane, but I remember the first...
View ArticleSundance Film Review: The Lure
Bookmark and follow our exclusive coverage of the Sundance Film Festival 2016. The Lure is a disco-tinged punk/new wave rock opera about a pair of young mermaids ashore in Poland, hired to use their...
View ArticleSundance Film Review: Morris From America
Bookmark and follow our exclusive coverage of the Sundance Film Festival 2016. It’s hard enough being a kid, let alone when you have to do it in a place where you have virtually nobody around to whom...
View ArticleSundance Film Review: 31
Bookmark and follow our exclusive coverage of the Sundance Film Festival 2016. Does Rob Zombie have an original bone left in his body? For over a decade, the rock ‘n’ roll filmmaker has plumbed the...
View ArticleLive Review: Sting at Sundance ASCAP Music Café (1/23)
Photography by Erik Philbrook Light snow fell over Park City, Utah, on Saturday afternoon. A line of impatient cars snaked through Main Street, where the hustle and bustle of this year’s Sundance Film...
View ArticleSundance Film Review: The Eyes of My Mother
Bookmark and follow our exclusive coverage of the Sundance Film Festival 2016. “Loneliness can do strange things to the mind.” Horror movies in recent years have a bad tendency to go for the third act...
View ArticleSundance Film Review: Christine
Bookmark and follow our exclusive coverage of the Sundance Film Festival 2016. “She’s my favorite person.” We’ve seen the depression movie. You know the one I’m talking about. There’s always a close-up...
View ArticleSundance Film Review: Certain Women
Bookmark and follow our exclusive coverage of the Sundance Film Festival 2016. “Sir, what if a writer is attempting to create a story where nothing much happens, where people don’t change, they don’t...
View ArticleSundance Film Review: Under the Shadow
Bookmark and follow our exclusive coverage of the Sundance Film Festival 2016. Great horror speaks many tongues. By that measure, Babak Anvari’s feature-length debut, Under the Shadow, is multilingual....
View ArticleSundance Film Review: Miles Ahead
Bookmark and follow our exclusive coverage of the Sundance Film Festival 2016. For whatever one could say about Miles Ahead, Don Cheadle’s long-gestating passion project about a particularly fraught...
View ArticleSundance Film Review: The Lovers and the Despot
Bookmark and follow our exclusive coverage of the Sundance Film Festival 2016. One of the great and most fearful truths about the modern state of North Korea is that in the grander scheme of things,...
View ArticleSundance Film Review: Yoga Hosers
Bookmark and follow our exclusive coverage of the Sundance Film Festival 2016. Yoga Hosers suggests what kind of path Kevin Smith may have found himself upon had he risen to prominence 10-15 years...
View ArticleSundance Film Review: Michael Jackson’s Journey from Motown to Off the Wall
Bookmark and follow our exclusive coverage of the Sundance Film Festival 2016. “I’ll do the old stuff for you.” That’s Michael Jackson, young, uncanny, and ready to conquer the world at age 23. He’s...
View ArticleSundance Film Review: Manchester By the Sea
Bookmark and follow our exclusive coverage of the Sundance Film Festival 2016. I’m not a Catholic man. But from what I’ve gathered over time, especially through 15 years of non-secular schooling,...
View ArticleSundance Film Review: Lo and Behold
Bookmark and follow our exclusive coverage of the Sundance Film Festival 2016. The Internet was modest, even naïve, in the beginning. Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World, Werner Herzog’s...
View ArticleSundance Film Review: Complete Unknown
Bookmark and follow our exclusive coverage of the Sundance Film Festival 2016. Is there any question more polarizing than “What if?” It could be the source of a great reawakening or the beginning of an...
View ArticleSundance Film Review: The Birth of a Nation
Bookmark and follow our exclusive coverage of the Sundance Film Festival 2016. “Not today.” You could write a whole paper on the title. For the uninitiated, Nate Parker’s The Birth of a Nation takes...
View ArticleSundance Film Review: Swiss Army Man
Bookmark and follow our exclusive coverage of the Sundance Film Festival 2016. ”If you don’t know Jurassic Park, you don’t know shit.” Yes. This is the movie where Daniel Radcliffe plays a farting...
View ArticleSundance Film Review: Antibirth
Bookmark and follow our exclusive coverage of the Sundance Film Festival 2016. There are at least six different movies in Antibirth, and none of them work in tandem. Director, writer, and AnCo buddy...
View ArticleSundance Film Review: The Intervention
Bookmark and follow our exclusive coverage of the Sundance Film Festival 2016. What are friends for? Growing up, we tend to move apart from those closest to us. People get married, have kids, turn...
View ArticleSundance Film Review: Goat
Bookmark and follow our exclusive coverage of the Sundance Film Festival 2016. “To the greatest group of gentlemen the world has ever known!” The most telling moment in Andrew Neel’s Goat doesn’t...
View ArticleSundance Film Review: Frank and Lola
Bookmark and follow our exclusive coverage of the Sundance Film Festival 2016. There’s a difference between what we know and what we think we know. When it comes to budding love, that difference can be...
View ArticleSundance Film Review: Joshy
Bookmark and follow our exclusive coverage of the Sundance Film Festival 2016. “Let’s do shots to nothing!” Man, oh, man, is the cast of Joshy great. You have some of the funniest people on the planet...
View ArticleSundance Film Review: Carnage Park
Bookmark and follow our exclusive coverage of the Sundance Film Festival 2016. At least Carnage Park starts strong. It’s California in 1978. Vietnam is over, but as Wyatt Moss (Pat Healy) suggests in...
View ArticleSundance Film Review: Dark Night
Bookmark and follow our exclusive coverage of the Sundance Film Festival 2016. Dark Night approaches the difficult topic of public acts of gun violence in America in a way at once familiar and arguably...
View ArticleSundance Film Review: Indignation
Bookmark and follow our exclusive coverage of the Sundance Film Festival 2016. Indignation concerns itself with a number of quintessentially Philip Roth topics: Judaism, sexual repression, older forms...
View ArticleSundance Film Review: Southside with You
Bookmark and follow our exclusive coverage of the Sundance Film Festival 2016. Every president of this country is parodied. That’s just a fact of life. When we think of Bush Part 1, someone’s bound to...
View ArticleSundance Film Review: First Girl I Loved
Bookmark and follow our exclusive coverage of the Sundance Film Festival 2016. “Don’t swing.” High school student Anne (Dylan Gelula) is in love. She’s enjoyed her friendship with the equally...
View ArticleSundance Film Review: Kate Plays Christine
Bookmark and follow our exclusive coverage of the Sundance Film Festival 2016. By some strange happenstance, exactly 42 years after Christine Chubbuck took her own life during a Sarasota, Florida...
View ArticleSundance Film Review: The Fundamentals of Caring
Bookmark and follow our exclusive coverage of the Sundance Film Festival 2016. Speaking ill of a film like The Fundamentals of Caring gives off the sensation of what one might imagine roundhouse...
View ArticleSundance Film Review: Holy Hell
Bookmark and follow our exclusive coverage of the Sundance Film Festival 2016. “Drop the mind.” The first half of Holy Hell is full of laughter. There is obviously the serious nature of the Buddhafield...
View ArticleRanking: Sundance 2016 Films From Worst to Best
Bookmark and follow our exclusive coverage of the Sundance Film Festival 2016. “Drop the mind.”Last year’s installment of the Sundance Film Festival was warm and sunny. This year? Not so much. There...
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