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
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
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
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…
THIS IS HORROR THAT HAS A WHOLE LOT TO SAY... Vera Miao writes and directs Rock Springs. It stars Kelly Marie Tran as a young mother who uproots her daughter and mother-in-law to Rock Springs, after the death of her husband. Reeling from their loss, they try to start anew in
"JOSEPHINE" WAS THE WINNER OF THE GRAND JURY PRIZE & AUDIENCE AWARD AT SUNDANCE 2026 Many years ago, when she was just a child, writer/director Beth de Araujo saw a woman being sexually assaulted in Golden Gate Park. In a feat of bravery and an act of healing, she has put together
At the end of last week's episode of The Pitt, we finally learned what happened to cause Westbridge to shut down. As PTMC preemptively secures itself from a possible cyberattack, the younger doctors and nurses get a trial by fire on how their superiors did their jobs "in the 1900s." With
The trailer for A24's The Drama does a great job of keeping things intentionally vague. We meet Charlie (Robert Pattinson) and Emma (Zendaya), a couple about to get married who seem like they know everything about each other… until they very clearly don’t. One drunken night at dinner with
Cultural phenomena like Elvis Presley simply don't come along very often. As a follow-up to his 2022 Elvis Biopic, energetic director Baz Luhrmann unearthed and restored never-before-seen footage of Presley, including 45 minutes of audio where he discussed his life and work, and made all of
