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Sundance Film Festival Review: Scoot McNairy and Emilia Jones Capture the Complexities of Father-daughter Relationships in Fairyland
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Sundance Film Festival Review: Scoot McNairy and Emilia Jones Capture the Complexities of Father-daughter Relationships in Fairyland

Sometimes the most emotionally fulfilling relationships, which shape a person’s entire life perspective and development, prove to be the ones that society deems to be unconventional. While society is often unwilling to accept the seemingly unconventional connections people can develop, some of the most emotionally captivating films are character-driven stories that chronicle and celebrate those…

Karen Benardello
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Sundance Film Festival : “Little Richard: I Am Everything” Review / Director Lisa Cortés Made an Uneven Tribute to a Flamboyant Artist
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Sundance Film Festival : “Little Richard: I Am Everything” Review / Director Lisa Cortés Made an Uneven Tribute to a Flamboyant Artist

“Little Richard: I Am Everything” is a documentary about the life and career of the late legendary Rhythm & Blues singer. Born Richard Wayne Penniman, he was a queer black man from Macon, Georgia, whose flamboyant lifestyle and energetic showmanship burst onto the rock and roll scene. Even though he had difficulty with his father,…

Nobuhiro Hosoki
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Fair Play
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Sundance Film Festival Review – ‘Fair Play’ is a Stressful Cautionary Tale Against Workplace Romances

People often meet the loves of their lives while working together. An office environment can be exactly the right place for a romance to begin and mature, but it can also be a toxic setting where ambition and ego run counter to the personal feelings people have for each other outside of work. There may…

Abe Friedtanzer
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Sundance Film Festival Review – ‘STILL: A Michael J. Fox’ is a Stirring and Creative Portrait of the Actor

Michael J. Fox was an incredibly popular actor in the 1980s, winning Emmy Awards for the sitcom Family Ties and starring in the science fiction film Back to the Future. He was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease the next decade at a very young age, something he kept hidden from the world for several years. Since then, he has…

Abe Friedtanzer
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Sundance Film Festival : Review / “Kim’s Video,” A Renowned New York Video Store for Cinephiles Finally Gets its Own Documentary
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Sundance Film Festival : Review / “Kim’s Video,” A Renowned New York Video Store for Cinephiles Finally Gets its Own Documentary

The Sundance Film Festival brings audiences back to the theaters in Park City after two years of employing the virtual model. With that in mind it seems appropriate to dive right into “Kim’s Video” a documentary about the video store which satisfied the New York City cinephiles for almost more than two decades. Located on…

Nobuhiro Hosoki
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Sometimes I Think About Dying
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Sundance Film Festival Review – Daisy Ridley Anchors the Entertaining Human Comedy ‘Sometimes I Think About Dying’

It’s often hard to explain natural impulses and the things that fill our dreams, or even our waking moments. Thinking frequently of one’s own death might seem morbid or terrifying, but it can also provoke a more neutral curiosity. That’s the case for the protagonist of Sometimes I Think About Dying, an antisocial office worker who…

Abe Friedtanzer
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20 Days in Mariupol
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Sundance Film Festival Review – ’20 Days in Mariupol’ is a Vital Journalism Documentary from Ukraine

One of the primary functions of documentary filmmaking is to educate audiences, and to expose something previously unknown to a wider breadth of people. The hope is that the world learning about an injustice will help to prevent it from happening again. Yet, unfortunately, that’s not always the case, and history all too often repeats…

Abe Friedtanzer
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Plane, An Action Movie Drenched With Adrenaline
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Plane, An Action Movie Drenched With Adrenaline

Cinema has often found the fascination for stories that take place more than 10,000 metres above the ground, specifically aboard aircrafts. Flight and Sully are some of the most compelling movies that are narrated through the captain’s perspective. A new action thriller follows this pattern, Plane, directed by Jean-François Richet, written by Charles Cumming and…

Chiara Spagnoli Gabardi
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TV Review: That ’90s Show is a Nostalgic, Humorous Sequel Series to That ’70s Show
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TV Review: That ’90s Show is a Nostalgic, Humorous Sequel Series to That ’70s Show

Nostalgia is a powerful motivator for many people to pursue the opportunity to recapture the freedom and positive energy of their – or their parents’ – youth. That’s certainly the case for both the characters and the targeted audience of the equally humorous and sentimental new teen/period sitcom, That ’90s Show. The project serves as…

Karen Benardello
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The Blind Man Who Did Not Want To See Titanic, A Suspenseful Drama With An Effective Takeaway Message
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The Blind Man Who Did Not Want To See Titanic, A Suspenseful Drama With An Effective Takeaway Message

Do not be deceived by the title of the Finnish film The Blind Man Who Did Not Want To See Titanic: despite the comedic vibe it’s a gripping thriller and a profound drama. The timing of its release couldn’t be more perfect: it arrives in the United States a week before James Cameron’s 1997 box-office…

Chiara Spagnoli Gabardi
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TV Review: Can HBO Strike Video Game Gold with “The Last of Us?”
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TV Review: Can HBO Strike Video Game Gold with “The Last of Us?”

Though there has been some recent success in the world of Video Game adaptations with the general acceptance of the Sonic the Hedgehog movies and the sheer brilliance of Josh Ruben’s Werewolves Within; bringing the interactive entertainment genre to larger audiences in the form of film and TV has not gone so well. But, with…

Matthew Schuchman
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