The hottest ticket at The Sundance Film Festival was undoubtedly The Invite. Even with a ticket to the premiere in hand and getting in line over an hour before the film started, I was unable to get a seat. Hell, I wasn't even able to enter the Eccles Theater, the largest venue in Park City. So you
I am such a sucker for films that make their setting a character. The kind where the city itself is so integral to the story it can't be made anywhere else. I also love a good 70s crime thriller, character-driven narratives packed with equal heart and thrills. Enter The Only Living Pickpocket in
Psychosexual horror comedy featuring tentacle sex and a satirical sledgehammer to therapy culture is a hard sell anywhere. For something like that to work, you've got to be all in on the vibes. If not, the whole thing crumbles and becomes an insufferable sit, the hyper stylized execution more
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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
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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
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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…
Carrie is one of Stephen King’s most loved and cherished works of fiction. Made into a seminal 1976 film and a later, more disappointing 2013 one, Carrie is an ageless tale of bullying, puberty, and female rage. When Mike Flanagan announced he was tackling the story of a telekinetic
Onimusha: Way of the Sword is a franchise revival that feels like it understands what made the original games so much fun. The gameplay is fast, frantic, and often delightfully violent, while the game throws a surprisingly large number of systems and mechanics at you. Thankfully, most of them feel
If you strip everything else away, at the core—the soul, the center—of DreamWorks Animation’s “Forgotten Island” is the pure, unadulterated power of goddamn friendship. Potential spoilers ahead! “Forgotten Island” (written and directed by Januel Mercado and Joel Crawford) is,
