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‘Wuthering Heights,’ Fennell Revisits The Classic To Examine Schadenfreude

Emily Brontë, along with her sisters Charlotte and Anne, was one of the most significant literary figures of the nineteenth century. Her innovative novel Wuthering Heights had a wide range of adaptations for the screen, since the early days of cinema. The first adaptation of the 1847 publication goes back to 1920 and was directed…

Sundance Film Festival Video Review: Josephine

Check out more of Our YouTube Channel  Matthew Schuchman : In the early 90s, while at the video store with his friends who wanted to rent Don’t Tell Mom The Babysitter’s Dead, Matthew asked the clerk if they had any copies of Naked Lunch available. A film buff from an early age, he would turn…

Sundance Film Festival: Echoes of Wong Kar-Wai in moving Zi by Kogonada

@Courtesy of Sundance Film Festival In order to fully appreciate this new movie directed by Kogonada, you must understand that Zi is so far the most personal and likely free project he has realized. After Columbus, After Yang and A Big Bold Beautiful Journey, the director has in fact decided to lose even more from…

Sundance Film Festival/ Filipiñana Review: Stunning Stillness, Hidden Stir

©Courtesy of Sundance Film Festival Master directors Jia Zhangke of China and Lav Diaz of the Philippines both believe that films need space and time to breathe. Long, slow takes allow viewers to notice small details, absorb everyday moments, and reflect. Filmmaker Rafael Manuel has taken this philosophy to heart. In his quietly powerful debut…

Sundance Film Festival/ How to Divorce During the War Review: Sharp Lithuanian Award Winner Makes Room for Fragile Empathy

©Courtesy of the Sundance Film Festival Lithuania knows Russia not as a distant neighbor, but as a shadow in its history — from centuries of conflict to five decades of Soviet occupation (1940–1990). In 1990, the Baltic nation became the first republic to break from the USSR and reclaim its independence. So, when Russia invaded…

Dandelion’s Odyssey, at Animation First 2026

“Life finds a way” Dr. Ian Malcolm (a.k.a. Jeff Goldblum) famously said in Jurassic Park. He was talking about sterilized dinosaurs, but it applies to post-apocalyptic dandelions as well. They might be one man’s weeds, or another man’s flowers, but four intrepid seed-bearing pappi will travel the universe in search of a safe place to…

Sundance Film Festival: Chris Pine Shines In Disappointing Drama Carousel

@Courtesy of Sundance Film festival After Sometimes I Think About Dying starring Daisy Ridley, the director Rachel Lambert comes back to the Sundance Film festival with another movie exploring the complexity of human relationships. Carousel tells the story of Noah (Chris Pine), a divorced doctor living in Cleveland, struggling with his job and in particular…

Sundance Film Festival: Ha-chan, Shake Your Booty! Dances Gracefully Through Grief and Renewal

Dancing can have a profoundly inspiring effect on anyone willing to embrace its transformative benefits. That’s certainly the case for the protagonist of Haru, a recent widow who uses the physical movements to come out of mourning, in the new romantic dramedy, Ha-chan, Shake Your Booty! Josef Kubota Wladyka directed and produced, and also co-wrote…

Sundance Film Festival: The Musical Doesn’t Dare to Explore Its Inner Dark Side

@Courtesy of Sundance Film Festival The First feature-film directed by Giselle Bonilla is a dark comedy focused on Doug (Will Brill), a middle-school teacher and wanna-be playwright, that turns into exploring his dark side when he finds out his ex-girlfriend and colleague Abigail (Gillian Jacobs) is dating the school’s principal Brady (Rob Lowe). Which could…

‘Drops of God,’ The Series Typifies How “Wine Is Bottled Poetry”

When the Scottish novelist Robert Louis Stevenson spent a summer honeymoon in the Napa Valley — that is renowned for its winemaking — he expressed that just like a good poem that reveals nuances each time you read it, once you open a good bottle of wine the longer it decants the more its flavor…

You’ll Be ‘Swept Away’ By Raimi’s Survival Thriller ‘Send Help’

The visionary Sam Raimi, acclaimed for his Spider-Man trilogy and many films that possess a dynamic visual style, returns to the screen with the undauntable survival-thriller Send Help. The story shows how Linda Liddle (Rachel McAdams) — the star employee from a company’s Planning & Strategy Department— and Bradley Preston (Dylan O’Brien) — the newly…