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2023 Sundance Film Festival Review – The Tuba Thieves

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The Tuba Thieves, 2023. Directed by Alison O’Daniel. SYNOPSIS: From 2011 to 2013, tubas were stolen from Los Angeles high schools. This is not a story about thieves or missing tubas. Instead, it asks what it means to listen. From its title alone, d/Deaf filmmaker Alison O’Daniel’s The Tuba Thieves may invite expectations of a thrill-a-minute, […]

2023 Sundance Film Festival Review – Magazine Dreams

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Magazine Dreams, 2023. Written and directed by Elijah Bynum. Starring Jonathan Majors, Haley Bennett, Taylour Paige, Mike O’Hearn, Harrison Page, and Harriet Sansom Harris. SYNOPSIS: A Black amateur bodybuilder struggles to find human connection in this exploration of celebrity and violence. Elijah Bynum (Hot Summer Nights) turns in an assured sophomore feature; a hugely depressing […]

2023 Sundance Film Festival Review – Sometimes I Think About Dying

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Sometimes I Think About Dying, 2023. Directed by Rachel Lambert. Starring Daisy Ridley, Dave Merheje, Parvesh Cheena, Marcia Debonis, Meg Stalter, and Brittany O’Grady. SYNOPSIS: Fran, who likes to think about dying, makes the new guy at work laugh, which leads to dating and more. Now the only thing standing in their way is Fran […]

Movie Review – Emily the Criminal (2022)

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Emily the Criminal. 2022 Written and Directed by John Patton Ford. Starring Aubrey Plaza, Theo Rossi, Gina Gershon, Megalyn Echikunwoke, Jonathan Avigdori, Bernardo Badillo, Craig Stark, and Brandon Sklenar. SYNOPSIS: Down on her luck and saddled with debt, Emily gets involved in a credit card scam that pulls her into the criminal underworld of Los […]

Movie Review – A Love Song (2022)

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A Love Song, 2022. Written and directed by Max Walker-Silverman. Starring Dale Dickey, Wes Studi, Michelle Wilson, Benja K. Thomas, John Way, and Marty Grace Dennis. SYNOPSIS: Two childhood sweethearts, both now widowed, share a night by a lake in the mountains. A love story for those who are alone. It’s always tremendously rewarding to […]

Movie Review – Resurrection (2022)

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Resurrection, 2022. Written and directed by Andrew Semans. Starring Rebecca Hall, Tim Roth, Grace Kaufman, Michael Esper, and Angela Wong Carbone. SYNOPSIS: Margaret’s life is in order. She is capable, disciplined, and successful. Everything is under control. That is, until David returns, carrying with him the horrors of Margaret’s past. Rebecca Hall and Tim Roth […]

Movie Review – Living (2022)

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Living, 2022. Directed by Oliver Hermanus. Starring Bill Nighy, Aimee Lou Wood, Alex Sharp, and Tom Burke. SYNOPSIS: An English-language adaptation of Akira Kurosawa’s 1952 film Ikiru, set in London in the 1950s. It’s a testament to the tectonic power of Akira Kurosawa’s classic 1952 existential drama Ikiru that, even seven full decades on, the […]

Movie Review – You Won’t Be Alone (2022)

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You Won’t Be Alone, 2022. Written and directed by Goran Stolevski. Starring Noomi Rapace, Anamaria Marinca, Alice Englert, Carloto Cotta, Félix Maritaud, and Sara Klimoska. SYNOPSIS: In an isolated mountain village in 19th-century Macedonia, a young girl is kidnapped and then transformed into a witch by an ancient spirit. We’ve seen existentialism filtered through the […]

Movie Review – Strawberry Mansion (2021)

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Strawberry Mansion, 2021. Written and directed by Albert Birney and Kentucker Audley. Starring Penny Fuller, Kentucker Audley, Grace Glowicki, Reed Birney, Linas Phillips, and Constance Shulman. SYNOPSIS: In a future where the government records dreams and taxes them, a dream auditor gets caught up in the dreams of an aging eccentric. Forward-thinking authors over the decades […]

Movie Review – TikTok, Boom. (2022)

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TikTok, Boom., 2022. Directed by Shalini Kantayya. SYNOPSIS: With TikTok crowned the world’s most downloaded app, these are the personal stories of a cultural phenomenon, told through an ensemble cast of Gen-Z natives, journalists, and experts alike. Coded Bias director Shalini Kantayya’s follow-up doc challenges yet another window of our increasingly algorithm-controlled lives; social media, […]