The 2022 Sundance Film Festival has officially come to an end. I saw 30 movies at this year’s festival, one less than last year. Overall, this year’s festival was really good. There were a number of movies that I really liked and only two or three that I truly did not like, mostly because they were boring. However, missing from this year’s festival was a movie that was a truly great film. In previous years,…
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Modern dating seems rough. With the rise in dating apps over the last few years, dating has been changed forever. With the simple swipe of a finger, you could be “matched” with a random person and choose to meet them for a date. But who really is this person? All you’ve gathered is a brief description, a picture, and maybe a small conversation about the date, but you’ve never spoken or seen this…
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The Sundance Film Festival and IMDb have classified Carey Williams’ Emergency as a comedy, which is a bit misleading. There are funny moments in the film, particularly in the first act, but this is an intense, powerful look at the Black experience and their relationships with police and white fear. The genre might be wrong, but Emergency is a great movie. Kunle (Donald Elise Watkins), a straight-A genius on his way to Princeton…
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The 2022 Sundance Film Festival kicks off this week and, as I’ve written many times, this festival is very near and dear to my heart. I started attending the Sundance Film Festival back in 2011 as a volunteer for the festival and over the last couple of years have had the honor of covering the festival as a member of the press. This is a film festival I truly love. I love the focus on…
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Here are my reviews of Prisoners of the Ghostland, First Date, and Land from the 2021 Sundance Film Festival. PRISONERS OF THE GHOSTLAND Though he’s an Oscar-winning actor, it feels like Nicolas Cage is more known for the amount of roles he takes and the insanity he brings to his movies. Though one of our great actors of the 90’s and early 2000’s, Cage has spent the last decade starring in movies that allow him…
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Here are my reviews for How It Ends and On the Count of Three, which had their premieres at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival. HOW IT ENDS How It Ends is one of the more unique end-of-the-world movies I have ever seen. It’s a quirky, weird, often hilarious odyssey through Los Angeles filled with celebrity cameos and a sweet story. On the last day on Earth, Liza (Zoe Lister-Jones) goes on a journey through…
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Here are my reviews for the films CODA, Flee, and Censor, which debuted at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival. CODA The 2021 Sundance Film Festival kicked off in the best way possible. Sian Heder’s CODA is an absolute delight of a movie. A funny, sweet, beautiful family story with a huge heart and great performances. The film follows Rubi Rossi (Emilia Jones) a hearing child in a deaf family. Because Rubi is the only in the…
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The 2021 Sundance Film Festival kicks off this week and though this year’s festival might look a little different than most years, it is still bound to be a great festival. What I like best about the movies at Sundance is that you never know what you are going to get. You might get a trailer for a few movies but for the most part, you are going off the synopsis, the cast, and the…
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Worth was one of my most anticipated movies of the 2020 Sundance Film Festival. Director Sara Colangelo returned to the festival following 2018’s The Kindergarten Teacher to tell the true story of Ken Feinberg (played by Michael Keaton), an attorney who battles against cynicism, bureaucracy and politics to help the victims of 9/11. This is a powerful, emotional, masterfully acted film and surely to be one of the best movies out…
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Scare Me is one of the most inventive Midnight movies I have seen during my years at Sundance. A wildly original and incredibly entertaining film filled with meta humor, thrills, and three terrific performances. Fred (Josh Ruben) is a struggling writer who is hiding out in a cabin in the middle of the woods to find inspiration. Fanny (Aya Cash) is a cocky, successful horror writer. The two spend the night…
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