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Swan Song [Video Review]

Producer: Mahershala Ali, Rebecca Bourke, Jonathan King, Jacob Perlin, Adam Shulman, Mimi Valdés. Executive Producers: Shea Kammer. Director: Benjamin Cleary. Screenplay: Benjamin Cleary. Camera: Masanobu Takayanagi. Editor: Nathan Nugent. Music:...

Four Good Days [Video Review]

My Opioid Teacher: Garcia Tackles Addiction in Hokey Reunion with Close Films dealing with drug addiction may have evolved considering the changing landscape of...

Hillbilly Elegy [Video Review]

The Oh in Ohio: Howard Tries on Tragedy in Elementary Adaptation The trouble with critiquing a personal memoir invites the danger of dismissing someone’s trauma,...

2020 Sundance Film Festival: Miranda July, Julie Taymor, Dee Rees & Sean Durkin in the Premieres Section

The most acquisitions and distributor launch-pad friendly section of the festival, the Premieres category had some big ticket items in Nisha Ganatra's Late Night,...

Anesthesia | Review

Causality and Kindness: Nelson’s Latest Look at All the Lonely People The multifaceted Tim Blake Nelson unveils his latest directorial effort in nearly seven years...

2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Tim Blake Nelson’s Anesthesia

While TIFF has become film premiere terrain for his last director outings (the horribly timed post 9/11 released The Grey Zone and 2009's Leaves...

Low Down | Review

Groovin’ High: Hawkes Nuanced Performance Elevates Albany Memoir Despite taking home the best cinematography prize for Christopher Blauvet (who also provided superb camerawork on Kelly...

Guardians of the Galaxy | Review

Rocket Fuelled; Gunn Pleasures Summer PG-Spot It's the end of the world as we know it. Or so the popcorn films of the summer thus...

Sundance 2014: Cutter Hodierne, Damien Chazelle, Kat Candler & Mona Fastvold Among Lucky 16 U.S. Dramatic Comp Selections

As I had predicted here, names such as Cutter Hodierne, Kat Candler, Maya Forbes, Mona Fastvold and Damien Chazelle would be among the invited...

2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Jeff Preiss’ Low Down

While 2013 gave us Inside Llewyn Davis, 2014 will give us Low Down. I'm thinking that photographer/ethnographic documentarian/commercials and video director Jeff Preiss' debut...

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Lingering Influence: Meryem Benm’Barek Filming ‘Behind the Palm Trees’

A project initially scheduled for a 2023 shoot has...