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‘My Animal’ Trailer: Amandla Stenberg & ‘Euphoria’s Bobbi Salvör Menuez Star In A Trippy Lesbian Werewolf Romance

August 17, 2023 12:57 pm

Filmmakers love to use horny horror and genre metamorphosis for tales of eroticism or queer eroticism: hell, it works, and it’s often a beguiling mixture of moods, tones, and feelings in our nether regions. An...

‘The Eternal Memory’ Review: Maite Alberdi’s Moving Doc Is A Love Story About The Trauma Of Remembering & The Decay Of Memory [Sundance]

Rodrigo Perez

January 27, 2023 4:26 pm

Festivals, News, Reviews

It’s challenging and/or impossible to speak about Chilean art and disassociate it from Chilean politics— the two are forever tragically intertwined, bonded together by trauma in a way that few modern countries...

‘Nam June Paik: Moon Is The Oldest TV’ Review: The Founder Of Video Art Gets A Documentary That is Never As Radical As Its Subject [Sundance]

Christian Gallichio

January 26, 2023 4:47 pm

Festivals, News, Reviews

The avant-garde video artist Nam June Paik gets his own adulatory portrait in Amanda Kim’s documentary “Nam June Paik: Moon is the Oldest TV.” An act of biographical recovery that also, somehow, flattens a con...

‘Drift’ Review: Cynthia Erivo Stars In An Impressionistic, But Hollow Refugee Drama [Sundance]

Marya E. Gates

January 22, 2023 6:33 pm

Festivals, News, Reviews

Based on the 2013 novel “A Marker to Measure Drift” by Alexander Maksik, set just after the Second Liberian Civil War in 2003, “Drift” aims for impressionistic insight but is ultimately manipulative and reduct...

‘Something In The Dirt’ Review: Benson & Moorhead Land A Darkly Funny Sci-Fi Gem About Galaxy-Brained Paranoia & Conspiracies [Sundance]

Jason Bailey

January 23, 2022 5:00 pm

Features, Festivals, News, Reviews

Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead work in such a specific, sui generis key and style, producing such exciting results on a small scale, that it’s genuinely shocking they haven’t been sw...

‘Summering’ Review: James Ponsoldt Makes A Pleasant But Lightweight Coming-Of-Age Tale Return [Sundance]

Jason Bailey

January 22, 2022 10:30 pm

Festivals, News, Reviews

James Ponsoldt is having the kind of career that future students of the business of film may study with some confusion. He made his name by turning out three indie dramas in four years – “S...

Fran Kranz Talks His Drama ‘Mass,’ Impossible Grief, And The Power Of Ann Dowd [Sundance Interview]

Isaac Feldberg

February 6, 2021 1:20 pm

Interviews, News

Fran Kranz’s “Mass” is likely one of the most emotionally pulverizing films ever made about America’s gun-violence epidemic – but across its 110-minute runtime, not a single shot is fired. READ MORE: ‘Mass’...

Dash Shaw Talks ‘Cryptozoo,’ Animation Influences & Dream Politics [Sundance Interview]

Isaac Feldberg

February 4, 2021 1:30 pm

Festivals, Interviews, News

It’s remarkably rare that anyone makes a hand-drawn animated feature for adults, let alone one as strikingly surreal and seriously minded as Dash Shaw’s “Cryptozoo.” READ MORE: 25 Most Anticipated 202...

‘Mayday’: Grace Van Patten Shines In A Dreamy Fairy Tale Of Escape & Feminist Revenge [Sundance Review]

Rodrigo Perez

February 3, 2021 1:52 pm

Festivals, News, Reviews

Female trauma’s been given a serious workout in cinema, liberally exercised in the fantasy genre of late. The celebrated “Promising Young Woman,” while dark satire, uses hot pink revenge fantasy to acerbically...

‘Mayday’ First Look: Mia Goth Teaches Grace Van Patten To Put The Boys In The Crosshairs [Sundance Exclusive Clip]

Rodrigo Perez

February 3, 2021 8:00 am

News, Video

S.O.S distress calls, fantasy escape from trauma, and forever wars that need to be fought all swirl together in “Mayday,” a dreamy and surreal new feminist fairy tale and revenge film that debuted at the Sunda...

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