Cusp – Sundance Film Festival 2021 Review Rafaela Sales Ross February 2, 2021 Reviews “There is no normal in teenage years” utters a young girl as the sun goes down, her friends carrying cans of beer and chatting from the top of old, beaten trucks. It is a fitting observation to set the...
How It Ends – Sundance Film Festival 2021 Review Rafaela Sales Ross February 2, 2021 Reviews Hours before a meteor is due to decimate all life on Earth, Liza (Zoe Lister-Jones) crosses a deserted LA alongside an unusual sidekick: a younger version of herself (Cailee Spaeny). With a farewell party...
We’re All Going to the World’s Fair – Sundance Film Festival 2021 Review Alysha Prasad February 1, 2021 Reviews What would it feel like to be transported into a horror movie? Jane Schoenbrun’s We’re All Going to the World’s Fair introduces us to an online role-playing horror game that’s gone viral. Teenager...
Together Together – Sundance Film Festival 2021 Rafaela Sales Ross February 1, 2021 Reviews An app developer in his 40s, Matt (Ed Helms) decides to no longer wait for a partner to become a father. Opting for surrogacy, he enlists 26-year-old Anna (Patti Harrison), and, together, they try to navigate...
Mayday – Sundance Film Festival 2021 Review Alysha Prasad February 1, 2021 Reviews A terrifying storm sets the events of Karen Cinorre’s Mayday into motion after a short circuit occurs at Ana’s (Grace Van Patten) workplace, transporting her into an alternate world where she meets a group...
Superior – Sundance Film Festival 2021 Review Alysha Prasad January 31, 2021 Reviews Shot on 16mm film is Erin Vassilopoulos’ feature, Superior, transporting viewers back to the Eighties through incredibly stylish sets and costume designs. We are introduced to Marian (Alessandra Mesa) as she...
Wild Indian – Sundance Film Festival 2021 Review Alysha Prasad January 31, 2021 Reviews Wild Indian is the feature debut from Indigenous writer-director Lyle Mitchell Corbine Jr., who tells the story of two Indigenous men, Makwa (Michael Greyeyes) and Ted-O (Chaske Spencer), and how their lives...
Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go For It – Sundance Film Festival 2021 Review Rafaela Sales Ross January 30, 2021 Reviews There is no one like Rita Moreno. The trailblazing EGOT winner shaped the history of Latinx representation in Hollywood in a career that spans over 70 years. Just a Girl Who Decided to Go For It pays homage to...
One for the Road – Sundance Film Festival 2021 Review Alysha Prasad January 30, 2021 Reviews "Tiny Dancer" by Elton John and other various classics play from the tapes of an old radio show as Aood (Ice Natara) and Boss (Tor Thanapob) take a road trip down memory lane, not all of their memories being...
Corporate Animals – Sundance London Review Joni Blyth June 7, 2019 Reviews Faux-eco-friendly corporations. Workplace discrimination. Startup culture. Corporate Animals is one trade union song away from a revolutionary call to arms, and all the better for it. Politically speaking,...
After the Wedding – Sundance London Review Joni Blyth June 5, 2019 Reviews After the Wedding cuts through its own melodrama at a clippy pace. Third-act twists are delivered halfway through; director Bart Freundlich is more interested in living in the fallout than trying to shock you...
The Farewell – Sundance London Review Joni Blyth June 5, 2019 Reviews You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll cringe at awkward speeches – The Farewell is like any good family wedding, or any good funeral come to think of it. In her sophomore feature, writer-director Lulu Wang...
An Evening With Beverly Luff Linn – Sundance London 2018 Review Kambole Campbell June 1, 2018 Reviews An exhausting follow-up to the also exhausting The Greasy Strangler, An Evening With Beverly Luff Linn burns out on creativity (and it seems, our patience) within half an hour. Across both films, Jim Hosking...
The Tale – Sundance London 2018 Review Rachel Brook June 1, 2018 Reviews The Tale is a spiralling and endlessly fascinating work. Non-fiction filmmaker Jennifer Fox applies her documentarian’s eye to her own childhood, peeling back onion-like layers of memory and teasingly...
First Reformed – Sundance London 2018 Review Stephanie Watts June 1, 2018 Reviews Paul Schrader has returned with First Reformed, an understated but extremely powerful tale of a man in doubt of his own longstanding beliefs as the world rapidly changes around him. Ethan Hawke plays...