Adding the words "... in space" to the end of any title creates immediate sci-fi imagery that's usually pretty interesting, if easy. It's a good descriptive tool for recommending and reviewing certain shows and films. For the new original Syfy…
Read moreYou’ve never seen a romantic comedy quite like Raine Allen-Miller's Rye Lane. Not only is the film oozing with style, passion, and authorial expressivity, but it also features two fantastic lead performances that confirm no other actors could have brought…
Read moreDirector Sarah Spillane adapts the extraordinary true story of Jessica Watson into an uplifting feature film. Watson, a 16-year-old Australian teenager, became the youngest person to circumnavigate the globe as a solo sailor. True Spirit follows her epic and incredibly…
Read moreTwice Colonized, courtesy of Sundance Institute Twice Colonized, the documentary from filmmaker Lin Alluna, focuses on the life and activism of Aaju Peter, a Greenlandic Inuit who advocates for the human rights of Arctic Indigenous people like herself. As a…
Read moreWriter and director Elijah Bynum’s second feature film, Magazine Dreams, stars Jonathan Majors as Killian, a Black, amateur bodybuilder with dreams of winning world championships. He can see himself on the covers of magazines, but in order to achieve these…
Read moreMechanical banana replacement gnome. That sentence makes about as much sense (but is not nearly as funny) as Aqua Teen Hunger Force. It's appropriate, then, that interviews with its creators, Dave Willis and Matt Maiellaro, would quickly devolve into comedy…
Read moreTwice Colonized, courtesy of Sundance Institute Greenlandic Inuit activist and lawyer Aaju Peter is the subject of Twice Colonized, a documentary by filmmaker Lin Alluna. Through her work, she forces colonizing forces Denmark and Canada to pay for their crimes,…
Read moreDirector/writer Phil Blattenberger hunts villainous Nazis in South America after World War II. Condor's Nest follows an American veteran on a quest for vengeance. Jacob Keohane stars as Will Spalding, a radioman shot down with his B-17 crew over France…
Read moreOne of the films that premiered at this year’s Sundance Film Festival was director Rachel Lambert’s touching comedy-drama, Sometimes I Think About Dying, starring Daisy Ridley. Adapted from a short, the movie follows the somewhat awkward Fran (Ridley) through her…
Read moreA.V. Rockwell’s feature debut A Thousand and One begins with Inez (Teyana Taylor) migrating between shelters during an intensely hot summer in ’90s-era New York City. Her 6-year-old son Terry is in foster care, and she makes the bold decision…
Read moreDean Devlin and Jonathan Glassner are partly responsible for the shape of science-fiction that audiences take for granted today. Devlin was the writer for Stargate, Independence Day, and 1998's Godzilla (along with the popular series Leverage). Glassner is a television…
Read moreThere was a lot of buzz at this year’s Sundance Film Festival for Susanna Fogel’s Cat Person, starring Emilia Jones and Nicholas Braun. Based on Kristen Roupenian’s remarkably viral New Yorker short story of the same name, Cat Person is…
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