Stieg Larsson may not quite be a household name, but anyone privileged enough to have read The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo will certainly recognize the…
Browsing: Festivals
“Romance is dead,” proclaims Blake Conway (Jessica Barden), a college senior and aspiring journalist who writes an anonymous romance column for the school’s paper. While committed…
Wobble Palace, premiering at the 2018 SXSW Film Festival, is one of the most uncomfortable films I’ve ever sat through, an examination of a toxic relationship…
Anguished screams can be heard emanating from the basement of a slaughterhouse in a small Finnish village, but it’s not the resident reindeer that are crying…
One of the things that I loved about Sundance, and that really makes it unique, is that there are so many films across so many genres…
As I headed out for my third day, snow storm Jaxon was steadily transforming Park City, causing the town to look more like the ski destination…
When my editor asked if I wanted to cover the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, it took me all of about two seconds to…
The notion of demonic possession and exorcism has long provided fodder for the horror genre to exploit, but these seemingly archaic rituals meant to rid poor,…
Fenar Ahmad’s brooding revenge drama Darkland centers on successful surgeon Zaid (Game of Thrones alum Dar Salim), an Iraqi immigrant living in Denmark and expecting his first…
Anyone with an interest in Japanese pop culture is no doubt familiar with the “idol” industry, which turns young girls into pop music superstars with a…
Four years after their last offering, Dutch filmmakers Steffen Haars and Flip Van der Kuil are back with another hilariously irreverent comedy filled to the brim with…
Premiering at the 2017 SXSW Film Festival ahead of its August release date, Edgar Wright’s Baby Driver nearly blew the roof off the Paramount Theater last…
Comedian Demetri Martin is doing quadruple duty as writer/director/star/producer in his debut film Dean. The film is a not-quite-autobiographical, but still very personal story about a…
In June 2015 residents of Springfield, Missouri were shocked by the stabbing death of Dee Dee Blanchard, a woman well-known to locals as the caring mother of…
We’ve already covered two of the nation’s biggest film festivals this year, but we aren’t done yet! As the old saying goes, there’s no place like…
Whether it’s that classic mustache or that unmistakable voice brimming with gravel and grit, Sam Elliott is a true old school icon in Hollywood. His latest…
The first film we screened at SXSW 2017 started the festival out in a weird, BIG way – pun intended. Colossal, the new film from director Nacho…
The SXSW Film Festival has always been a welcome place for offbeat, outside-the-box filmmaking, and this year’s event was no exception, with the Midnighters category once…
Premiering at the 2017 SXSW Film Festival en route to a Netflix debut later this year, Small Crimes finds Nikolaj Coster-Waldau as Joe Denton, a former…
The 2017 SXSW Film Festival is currently in full swing, and among the features making their world premiere in Austin, Texas this year is action thriller…
It’s been six years since former police detective Joe Denton (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) was sent to prison for attempted murder, the culmination of a downward spiral brought…
When champion archery competitor Lauren Pierce (Bailey Noble) leads her team to victory at the end of the season, she and best friend Emily (Victoria Grace…
Set against the backdrop of a crime-ridden New York City neighborhood, Michael O’ Shea’s debut feature follows 14-year-old Milo (Eric Ruffin), an introverted teen with a…
In just a few days, we’ll be headed to Austin, Texas for the 2017 SXSW Film Festival to cover opening weekend (and to indulge in some…
Now that Sundance is over, we’re once again marking our calendar and booking our flights to Austin, Texas for the 2017 SXSW Film Festival. After learning that…
Based on the Hillary Jordan novel of the same name, Mudbound tells the story of a black family in the Deep South of the 1940s whose lives…
Jeff Baena’s The Little Hours marks the writer-director’s third trip to the Sundance Film Festival, and this 14th-century comedy based – just barely – on Giovanni Boccaccio’s The…
Premiering in the Midnight category at Sundance, Damien Power’s feature-length debut Killing Ground spins a pair of stories about ill-fated camping trips in the Australian wilderness. Unflinching…
After a four-year stint as a correspondent on The Daily Show, Jessica Williams brings her comedic sensibilities to the big screen as the title character in the Sundance…
When we first meet Ingrid (Aubrey Plaza), she’s sitting in her car scrolling through an Instagram feed of someone’s wedding, sobbing uncontrollably as she “likes” every…
“Everything is stupid,” 13-year-old Dayveon Buckingham (Devin Blackmon) tells himself as he rides his bicycle along the tree-lined roads of his rural Arkansas town, and it’s…
The 2017 Sundance Film Festival begins Thursday, January 19, and once again I’ll be returning to Park City for opening weekend. I had a great experience…
In just over two months, film fans will once again flock to Austin, Texas for the 2017 SXSW Film Festival, and news came today that visionary…
[Editor’s Note: With Swiss Army Man opening in New York and Los Angeles this weekend, we’re running our original Sundance review again]