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Witches Get Stitches: Simien Retrofits Folklore with Contemporary Subtexts in Horror Satire Justin Simien recuperates a particular time and place with a jaunty but ultimately...

2020 Sundance Film Festival: Justin Simien’s Bad Hair, David Bruckner’s The Night House & Bill Benz’s The Nowhere Inn in Midnight Section

Last year's Midnight section gave us Greener Grass, The Lodge and Sweetheart. In 2020, it appears that the section is more "worldly" with four...

2020 Sundance Film Festival: 100 Predictions From Kogonada’s “After Yang” to Janicza Bravo’s “Zola”

It's that time of year again: our pre-Thanksgiving Park City prognostications! If my intel serves me right, the Sundance Film Festival will ring in...

The Conversation: Time for TIFF 2019 – Predictions!

The Toronto International Film Festival is set to unspool its latest monolithic program. A major cue to set Oscar season into motion, the line-up...

Top 50 Most Anticipated American Independent Films of 2019: #38. Justin Simien’s Bad Hair

Bad Hair After the balayage that was Dear White People (the award-winning Sundance film that spawned a Netflix series), Justin Simien buzzed cut his way...

2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #9. Justin Simien – Bad Hair

If it weren't for Chapman University and subsequent Dear White People (winner of the U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Breakthrough Talent at the...

Through the Looking Glass – the Top 50 American Indie Films of 2019: Picks #50 to #11

It's never too early to look into the distant future. Last week, our Nicholas Bell took a look past the 2018 calendar with Through the...

TIFF 2013’s CWC Includes Latest from Spielmann, Eimbcke, Rasoulof, Seidl & Corneliu Porumboiu

Final batch of TIFF titles were announced today and among the international hodgepodge of items trickling we find Berlin (Golden Bear winner Child's Pose),...

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