©Courtesy of Sundance Film Festival Twelve years after her first-feature film bends, the director Flora Lau brought at the Sundance Film Festival – World Cinema Dramatic Competition – LUZ, another psychological drama set in Chongqing and Paris. The main story follows two completely different people: Wei (Xiadong Guo) is trying to reconnect with the daughter…
©Sundance Film Festival Police procedurals have long garnered attention and intrigue among audiences for the extreme measures characters take to protect the way of existence they have grown accustomed to – or feel entitled to – in their lives. The new documentary, The Perfect Neighbor explores the extreme measures some people, including Marion County resident…
©Courtesy of Sundance Film Festival Never Get Busted : Barry Cooper was a highly decorated Texas narcotics officer — until he turned on the police force by bustin crooked cops and teaching drug users how to hide their stash. Showrunners : David Anthony Ngo, Erin Williams-Weir Executive Producers : John Battsek, Chris Smith Co-Executive Producer : Michael Agar Producers : Erin Williams-Weir, Daniel Joyce, David Anthony Ngo, Louise Schultze…
The 2025 Sundance Film Festival will be wrapping up this weekend, although for those of us covering it virtually, we’ve gotten a bit of a late start. There have been quite a few themes with the movies at this year’s festival, including many films written and directed by actors starring in their own films, as…
It’s not always easy to find a partner, but there can be exacerbating circumstances that make it even more difficult. As a result of China’s one child’s policy, which was ended a decade ago, there are 30 million more men than women. Those odds aren’t great even for the most socially well-adjusted individuals with unlimited…
©Courtesy of Universal Pictures The catalyst for this comic book character’s conception was sort of like The Breakfast Club. Technically, he was created by author-illustrator Dav (No “E”) Pilkey, through his fictional school children, George Beard and Harold Hutchins, who dreamed up the crime-fighting canine while serving detention together. (The creative duo also supposedly “invented”…
@Courtesy of Sundance Institute | photo by Ethan Palme The ‘90 have been most likely one of the most controversial decades for gay rights in the United States. The optimism and liberalism of the Bill Clinton presidency clashed in many ways with the homophobia still reigning in many parts of the United States, especially far…
Atropia (U.S. Dramatic Competition), Seeds (U.S. Documentary Competition), Sabar Bonda (Cactus Pears) (World Cinema Dramatic Competition), and Cutting Through Rocks (اوزاک یوللار) (World Cinema Documentary Competition) Awarded Grand Jury Prizes; NEXT Innovator Award Presented by Adobe Goes to Zodiac Killer Project Twinless (U.S. Dramatic Competition) and André is an Idiot (U.S. Documentary Competition) Receive Audience Awards Presented by Acura Audience Awards Presented by United Airlines Go…
©Courtesy of Toei Company, LTD. The film, “The Blood of Wolves” UTA, a top U.S. talent agency which represents artists, athletes and storytellers, has signed a contract with Japanese director Kazuya Shiraishi, who is known for films like “The Devil’s Path”, “Sunny”, “The Blood of Wolves”, “Bushido” and TV series, “The Queen of Villains.” The…
©Courtesy of Lionsgate Some of the even most well-meaning saviors can eventually make life-altering choices that affect everyone they care about as they dole out their own personal form of vigilante justice. Those extreme decisions ultimately embrace their dark side, even if they initially have well intentions. Actor Dylan Flashner’s complex anti-hero of Eli in…
Conditions within prison facilities aren’t known to be great, and they’re not invitations that many in positions of power believe to be most deserving of resources. Some argue that criminal offenders need to be kept in line and shouldn’t be treated with kindness, and therefore their needs should be at the bottom of any priority…
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