Sundance Film Festival

‘Ingrid Goes West’ Review: A Stalker Movie for the Social Media Era
‘Ingrid Goes West’ Review: A Stalker Movie for the Social Media Era
‘Ingrid Goes West’ Review: A Stalker Movie for the Social Media Era
I have a young daughter, and I love sharing pictures and videos of her antics on social media. Occasionally people who follow me online will tell me in person how much they love my baby or how happy I seem with her. And I am. But it’s not all sunshine and rainbows; I just don’t share the moments where she wakes the whole house up at 4AM or has diaper rash so bad that she screams for 10 minutes straight. The line bteween reality and fiction online can get very blurry — and sometimes the persona we create there is much more appealing than the real thing.
ScreenCrush’s Complete Coverage of Sundance 2017
ScreenCrush’s Complete Coverage of Sundance 2017
ScreenCrush’s Complete Coverage of Sundance 2017
January is considered something of a dump month at the movies, when studios quietly release many of their clunkers. (With apologies to Monster Trucks, see: Monster Trucks.) At this time of year, true cinephiles basically have to hang their hats on the awards contenders from the previous year still making their way into theaters around the country, and, for those lucky enough to attend, the annual Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah.
Hackers Shut Down the Sundance Film Festival Box Office
Hackers Shut Down the Sundance Film Festival Box Office
Hackers Shut Down the Sundance Film Festival Box Office
Cyberattacks  —  or, as newly elected President Trump would say, “the Cyber”  —  are an increasingly common part of the world we live in. With most private information and secure data now available online, one tech-savvy computer user can do more damage to an institution than hundreds of lawyers or corporate spies. And while we might think of cyberattacks as being reserved for the Big Evil Corporations of the world, it turns out that not even film festivals are immune from being targeted.
Watch Emily Browning Sing in the ‘Golden Exits’ Teaser
Watch Emily Browning Sing in the ‘Golden Exits’ Teaser
Watch Emily Browning Sing in the ‘Golden Exits’ Teaser
While countless people descend on Park City to watch the best and brightest of independent film, things aren’t all bad out here on the sidelines. True, the people in Utah may get to gorge themselves on brand new films, but the Sundance Film Festival also means a deluge of new reviews, interviews, release dates, and, yes, trailers for those of us who couldn’t make it. Which means you can read about the buzz for a movie like Golden Exits and find yourself with a new trailer to watch almost simultaneously.
‘The Incredible Jessica James’ Review: Jessica Williams Gives a Stellar Breakthrough Performance
‘The Incredible Jessica James’ Review: Jessica Williams Gives a Stellar Breakthrough Performance
‘The Incredible Jessica James’ Review: Jessica Williams Gives a Stellar Breakthrough Performance
On paper, everything about The Incredible Jessica James sounds redundant and cliche. A young New York City transplant living in gentrified Brooklyn struggles to find success in the arts, she’s still not over a recent break-up, then meets and falls for an unlikely guy. We’ve certainly heard this story before, but its a sharp, refreshing sense of humor, and a stellar performance from actress-comedian Jessica Williams that brings Jim Strouse’s Closing Night Film to life.
‘The Big Sick’ Review: The Cure for the Common Rom-Com
‘The Big Sick’ Review: The Cure for the Common Rom-Com
‘The Big Sick’ Review: The Cure for the Common Rom-Com
There’s always a stupid reason why the couple in a romantic comedy can’t be together until the closing credits. An ex-girlfriend or boyfriend appears at the most narratively conveniently moment, or one of the leads becomes a ghost, or there’s a misunderstanding that could easily be cleared up if the characters just sat and talked to one another for literally 15 seconds. One of the best things about The Big Sick is that the obstacles (plural, there are several) facing this relationship are real and relatable and believable and hugely serious.
‘I Don’t Feel At Home in This World Anymore’ Sundance Review
‘I Don’t Feel At Home in This World Anymore’ Sundance Review
‘I Don’t Feel At Home in This World Anymore’ Sundance Review
When Melanie Lynskey’s Ruth, a depressed nursing assistant, goes to the home of the thief who stole her laptop and grandmother’s silverware, the thief’s father offers to pay her off. When she refuses money he asks, “Well what do you want?” “Everyone to not be such an asshole,” she says earnestly. In I Don’t Feel at Home in This World Anymore Ruth is on a mission, not just to get her belongings back, but to try to understand why everyone around her perpetually sucks.
Descend Into Madness with Psychedelic, NSFW ‘Kuso’ Trailer
Descend Into Madness with Psychedelic, NSFW ‘Kuso’ Trailer
Descend Into Madness with Psychedelic, NSFW ‘Kuso’ Trailer
Musician Steven Ellison first came to prominence under the moniker Flying Lotus, anointed as the toast of the hip-kid music blogs for his mind-expanding fusion of glitchy electronica and free jazz. He assumed the alias of Captain Murphy in 2012, pivoting from composing into rapping with the instant cult smash mixtape Du∆lity, a dense stew of stoner wordplay and snippets of audio from forgotten B-movies. His encyclopedic knowledge of bizarro cinema has evidently informed his newest career move — the poster for Ellison’s debut feature film Kuso simply reads “A film by Steve,” but the polymath’s latest project looks like anything but a return to basics. It’ll debut at the Sundance Film Festival in the days to come, and with a brief trailer now running online at Deadline, us folks at home can get a taste of the acid tab Ellison’s about to drop on Park City.
‘The Little Hours’ Never Quite Finds the Comedic Holy Grail
‘The Little Hours’ Never Quite Finds the Comedic Holy Grail
‘The Little Hours’ Never Quite Finds the Comedic Holy Grail
One of the apostles (I think it was Peter) once said that casting John C. Reilly covers over a multitude of sins. The Little Hours is basically a one-joke sketch — medieval nuns swearing like sailors — stretched out to feature length, but whenever the film starts to run out of gas or repeat itself a little too much, there’s Reilly, its rock and redeemer, turning watery jokes into a potent brew.
Ireland Looks Bloody Brutal in ‘Bad Day for the Cut’ Trailer
Ireland Looks Bloody Brutal in ‘Bad Day for the Cut’ Trailer
Ireland Looks Bloody Brutal in ‘Bad Day for the Cut’ Trailer
This morning, our trusty staffers Matt Singer and Erin Whitney head off to Park City, Utah for the Sundance Film Festival, the biggest week in American indie cinema. For us commoners who won’t be able to attend, however, we’ll have to subsist on the steady stream of coverage along with the deluge of trailers that always accompanies these parade of premieres. The next week-or-so will offer first looks at the toast of the fest in an effort to get the general public gassed for an eventual wide release, and the fun got going today with a sneak peek at one of the Midnight selections.

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