I feel like I am usually really good about keeping up with new releases, but Sweetness flew completely under my radar until a day or so ago. The synopsis sounded intriguing, so I jumped on the chance to watch it. And holy shit, is this movie crazy! I can't believe there is so little buzz
GET READY FOR YOUR MIND TO BE BLOWN... In 2020, the McManus brothers came out with a film called The Block Island Sound that became a bit of an underground cult hit. I found it to be a compelling little mystery, that put this directing duo on my radar. Five years later they have returned with
SUNDANCE DOESN'T NORMALLY DO ROM-COMS... Rom-coms are not the usual genre you see pop up at the Sundance Film Festival and its definitely not my go-to genre, either. But, I was drawn to Chasing Summer by the fact that it was written by and starred Iliza Shlesinger. I became familiar with the wild
I ABSOLUTELY HATED THIS MOVIE UPON FIRST VIEWING... Night Nurse is written and directed by Georgia Bernstein. It follows an aimless young woman named Eleny who gets a job as a night nurse to an early-onset Alzheimer's patient named Douglas. Douglas is at once charming, but dangerous… and lures his
IF YOU LOVED THE U.K. "SKINS", THAN THIS MIGHT INTEREST YOU... Makoto Nagahisa returns to Sundance with his new movie BURN. If you took the show Skins, but set it in the streets of Japan and turned it into a nightmarish fever dream… you would get BURN. And being that Skins is one of my all-time
RUN AMOK IS BASED ON AN OSCAR-QUALIFYING SHORT FILM... Run Amok is written and directed by NB Mager based upon her Oscar-qualifying short film of the same name. It follows a teenager named Meg, who upon the ten year anniversary of the shooting at her high school, which left her mother dead…
Joe Bob Briggs and Darcy the Mail Girl returned for The Last Drive-In: Joe Bob's Halloween House Party, delivering a double feature built around two very different approaches to Halloween horror. This time, the legendary horror host paired Body Bags (1993) with WNUF Halloween Special (2013),
George Carlin told perhaps the greatest joke on football ever told in his 10/11/1975 SNL monologue, where he contrasted the pastoral nature of baseball with the warlike sport of football. To quote one segment among many, “In football the object is for the quarterback, also known as the field
How do you follow up on Godzilla Minus One? Not only did the film revitalize Godzilla for a new generation of audiences but it gave us the first ever Oscar win for the legendary monster. That film was a revelation for all who saw it and it had a prolific run at the box office. Now, three years