©Courtesy of Sundance Film Festival The most endearing family dramas are often those that avert expectations. The unique stories explore themes of identity, belonging and the emotional bonds between parent and child as a tender character study. The new movie, Hot Water, is one such feature, as it grapples with the definition of home during…
©Courtesy of Greenwich entertainment While Sundance 2026 has already come to an end, some of the best films from the previous year’s festival are just now coming out to a wider audience. Cole Webley’s film, “Omaha,” which stars John Magaro, was in competition at last year’s festival and will be released in theaters this spring….
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…
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…
The reckless freedom and quiet desperation that drive the lives of struggling young adults often seem captivating to them. But the dire consequences that arise when those elements collide drive the new visceral coming-of-age film, Burn. Teen characters who are adrift on the margins of society, where belonging is fleeting and survival demands reinvention, give…
©Courtesy of “This Property is Condemned”(1966) Robert Redford, one of Hollywood’s most critically acclaimed directors, producers and leading actors, has died. His publicist Cindi Berger, Chairman and CEO of Rogers and Cowan PMK, confirmed the news. The Oscar-winning filmmaker, who also co-founded the Sundance Film Institute, passed away this morning at the age of 89….
Courtesy of Sundance Film Festival There are layers behind the title “Cactus Pears“ (Sabar Bonda in Marathi). In these red pears there’s a soft, juicy flesh that’s bursting with sweet flavor. Filled with vitamins, indigenous people have used the juice for centuries to treat burns and hepatitis. It takes years to grow, but the sweetness…
©Courtesy of Sundance Film Festival In a scene in DJ Ahmet, the winner of the Special Jury Award: World Cinema Dramatic, a horde of escaped sheep crash a rave party in the countryside. The beats pulsate as the sheep bleat. The bells jingle in the blinking lights while cool dudes dance and spray graffiti. But in…
In 2018, American missionary John Allen Chau was killed on North Sentinel Island, located off the coast of India and home to a tribe that has had very minimal contact with the outside world. Some described Chau’s death as a tragedy, while others blamed him for breaking the law and attempting to approach a population…
Society has different expectations for men and women, due in large part to millennia of patriarchal systems where women were typically responsible for staying home to take care of the children. In a modern world, mothers can work after giving birth and function similarly to men, but there are still maternal connections that they’ll make…
©Courtesy of Sundance Film Festival. In 1974, photographer Peter Hujar sat down with his friend, writer Linda Rosenkrantz, to tell her everything he did the day before, part of a planned book by Rosenkrantz speaking with all her well-connected friends about their daily lives. The book didn’t end up happening and apparently the tape of…
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