Sundance Journal: ‘Colossal’
The unfortunate aspect of attending a film festival is seeing a movie that’s built upon a great concept but needs another few rewrites. Such is the case with ‘Colossal’. The idea behind it is brilliant, but the f...
The unfortunate aspect of attending a film festival is seeing a movie that’s built upon a great concept but needs another few rewrites. Such is the case with ‘Colossal’. The idea behind it is brilliant, but the f...
Trailers and ads have made ‘Raw’ look like a pure gross-out fest that relies on shock value for shares, entertainment or memorability, but that couldn’t be farther from the truth with this French/Belgian film.
I’m quite cynical about Hollywood insider films (including Oscar front-runner ‘La La Land’). The joke used to be that if you wanted to make a film that was certain to get accolades, it had to be about the Holocau...
One of the many perks to attending a big film festival is the chance to see foreign films that offer insight to an aspect of the world that you may never otherwise know exists. By introducing us to the surprisingly lax prison syst...
I don’t believe I’ve ever watched original programming, or much of anything really, on Sundance (formerly the Sundance Channel) before. Considering the way the network has treated the premiere of Danny Boyle’s ne...
Although I’m not attending the Sundance Film Festival this year as credentialed press, when the chance came up to see the world premiere of ‘The Raid 2’, as any sane person would do, I took it. Having reviewed ...
This past weekend, a new documentary about the life of Roger Ebert called ‘Life Itself’ (based upon his book of the same name) debuted at the Sundance Film Festival. Directed by Steve James, who helmed the great ‘...
Out of all the movies I saw at Sundance this year, I felt the most let down by ‘The Lifeguard’. With its ensemble cast and talented director, I thought it would be a heartfelt story. Instead, it’s a lukewarm reha...
If someone had told me that director Michael Winterbottom would make the dullest movie Sundance had to offer this year, I would’ve laughed it off. Unfortunately, after seeing ‘The Look of Love’, I have to apologi...
A good documentary should take a subject (usually an obscure or relatively unknown one) and make it engaging for a mainstream audience. ‘Manhunt’ takes a popular and exciting subject – the real-life hunt for Osama bin ...
The moment it was announced that ‘Lovelace’ would play at Sundance, controversy mounted. Porn was everywhere at Sundance this year, but for some reason, the story of Linda Lovelace seemed to be the movie that took most...
‘Virtually Heroes’ is like a low-budget, live-action version of ‘Wreck-it Ralph’, about two videogame characters who become self-aware of the endless loop they’re living in. Too bad that the movie run...