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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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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
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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…
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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 this
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"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 a
Jordan Firstman's Club Kid was the talk of the town at this year's TIFF. As well as Telluride. And Cannes. Whatever film festival this film goes to, it invites the kind of enthusiasm that can shake mountains. Going in, I was nervous that Club Kid wouldn't live up to the lofty expectations I had set
Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother is a grounded, pulse pounding gut-punch of a film. A wholly unique experience that proves that you can still iterate on conventions and present them with a sense of newness.
What happens when you make a movie that's about four years too late on its subject matter? You get The Social Reckoning. At this point in our lives, we all know that social media is a cesspool and that a lot of that is Facebook/Meta's fault. They chose to act like the silent arbiter and actively
