I had never heard of Jeff Buckley until I saw that there was a documentary about him at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. The film, It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley, looks at a young musical artist who quickly rose to fame only for it to come to a crashing halt after a tragic accident. Normally I wouldn’t go into a documentary like this completely blind, but I am glad I took a chance on…
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Albert Birney returns to the Sundance Film Festival following his 2021 film Strawberry Mansion with OBEX, a lo-fi, science fiction film. Set in 1987, OBEX follows Conor (Birney), a recluse who only lives with his dog Sandy. Conor spends his days in front of a screen. He has a trio of TVs in his living room, a TV and computer monitor in his bedroom, and he even watches TV while in the bathtub. To…
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Dave Franco and Alison Brie star in Michael Shanks’s deliriously fun horror film Together, one of the best movies I have seen at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival. Franco and Brie play Tim and Millie, a couple who have recently moved from out of the big city into a house surrounded by endless woods. Tim and Millie’s relationship is on the rocks. Millie’s job as a teacher has taken them out of the city….
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I remember seeing Dylan O’Brien for the first time in the 2013 Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson-led comedy The Internship. Shortly after this film, O’Brien’s career blew up as he was the star of the TV show Teen Wolf and would be the lead in the film adaptations of The Maze Runner. With his growing popularity, choices in big-named projects, and classic good looks, O’Brien was on his way to becoming a full-blown movie…
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