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Glasgow Film Festival 2025 Review – On Falling

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On Falling, 2024. Written and directed by Laura Carreira. Starring Joana Santos, Inês Vaz, and Neil Leiper. SYNOPSIS: The story focuses on Aurora, a Portuguese worker in a Scottish warehouse, navigating loneliness and alienation in an algorithm-driven gig economy as she seeks meaning and connection amidst solitude and workplace confines. We’re so used to takes […]

2025 Sundance International Film Festival Review – Plainclothes

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Plainclothes, 2025. Written and Directed by Carmen Emmi. Starring Tom Blyth, Russell Tovey, Amy Forsyth, Maria Dizzia, Christian Cooke, Gabe Fazio, John Bedford Lloyd, Alessandra Ford Balazs, and Sam Asa Brownstein. SYNOPSIS: A promising undercover agent assigned to lure and arrest gay men defies professional orders when he falls in love with a target. Writer/director […]

2025 Sundance Film Festival Review – Bubble & Squeak

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Bubble & Squeak, 2025. Written and Directed by Evan Twohy. Starring Himesh Patel, Sarah Goldberg, Steven Yeun, Dave Franco, Matt Berry, Ursel Tilk, Inga Salurand, Jaak Prints Ralf, Samuel Arulepp, Lauren Grinberg, Mika Lipartia, Andres Tabun, Zoë Chao, and Mo Gilligan. SYNOPSIS: Accused of smuggling cabbages into a nation where cabbages are banned, Declan and […]

2025 Sundance Film Festival Review – By Design

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By Design, 2025. Written and Directed by Amanda Kramer. Starring Juliette Lewis, Mamoudou Athie, Melanie Griffith, Samantha Mathis, Robin Tunney, Alisa Torres, Udo Kier, Clifton Collins Jr., Betty Buckley, Ruby Cruz, Cristobal Tapia Montt, Jessie-Ann Kohlman, and Cricket Arrison. SYNOPSIS: A woman swaps bodies with a chair, and everyone likes her better as a chair. Juliette […]

2025 Sundance Film Festival Review – Sunfish and Other Stories on Green Lake

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Sunfish and Other Stories on Green Lake, 2025. Written and Directed by Sierra Falconer. Starring Jonathan Stoddard, Michela Luci, Wayne Duvall, Brooke Butler, Adam LeFevre, Dominic Bogart, Marceline Hugot, Bryant Carroll, Emily Hall, Karsen Liotta, Jim Kaplan, Lauren Sweetser, Marshall Dancing Elk Lucas, Luke Barnett, Craig Nigh, Jared Canfield, Giovanni Mazza, Tenley Kellogg, Maren Heary, […]

2025 Sundance Film Festival Review – Omaha

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Omaha, 2025. Directed by Cole Webley. Starting John Magaro, Molly Belle Wright, Wyatt Solis, Talia Balsam, Emma Keifer, and Teo Santos. SYNOPSIS: After a family tragedy, siblings Ella and Charlie are woken up by their dad and taken on a cross-country journey, experiencing a new world. As their adventure unfolds, Ella begins to understand that […]

2025 Sundance Film Festival Review – Twinless

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Twinless, 2025. Written and Directed by James Sweeney Starring Dylan O’Brien, James Sweeney, Lauren Graham, Aisling Franciosi, Tasha Smith, Chris Perfetti, Susan Park, Heidi Herschbach, Teddy Van Ee, Conner Deadrick, Arkira Chantaratananond, Kody Harvard, Jannette Bloom, Cree Cicchino, and François Arnaud. SYNOPSIS:: Two young men meet in a twin bereavement support group and form an […]

2025 Sundance Film Festival Review – Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore

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Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore, 2025. Directed by Shoshannah Stern. Featuring Marlee Matlin, Shoshannah Stern, Henry Winkler, Lauren Ridloff, and Troy Kotsur. SYNOPSIS: In 1987, Marlee Matlin became the first Deaf actor to win an Academy Award and was thrust into the spotlight at 21 years old. Reflecting on her life in her primary language […]

2025 Sundance Film Festival Review – Come See Me in the Good Light

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Come See Me in the Good Light, 2025, Directed by Ryan White. Featuring Andrea Gibson, Megan Falley, Heather Mann, Emily Clay, and Bethy Leonard. SYNOPSIS: Two poets, one incurable cancer diagnosis. Andrea Gibson and Megan Falley go on an unexpectedly funny and poignant journey through love, life, and mortality. Ryan White’s documentary follows poet laureate […]

The Baby in the Basket to screen at Romford Horror Festival 2025

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Followers of Flickering Myth will be all too aware that we’re getting into the independent film business with the impending release of our gothic horror film The Baby in the Basket, which launches with a cinema release in the Philippines next week before making its way to DVD and Digital in the UK and US […]