[Review] Eye in the Sky
Though it tackles drone warfare, Eye in the Sky removes itself from many of the thornier issues of this ultra-timely subject. It’s modeled as a gritty military ...
Daniel Schindel
[Review] London Has Fallen
The most notable thing I can remember about Olympus Has Fallen is how it establishes that the White House windows have been primed to explode if anyone tries to...
[Review] Zoolander 2
The world has changed since Zoolander helped America laugh again after 9/11. A good deal of its new sequel tries to pan humor out of grappling with this. As the...
Robert Greene and Kate Lyn Sheil Talk ‘Kate Plays Christine,’ Artificiality, Performance, and More
We spoke with Sheil and Greene at Sundance, where the film premiered, to talk about the film and how they used fake performance to explore real-life performance, as well as how we perceive both....
‘Morris From America’ Director & Cast Discuss Making Their Sundance Hit, Real-Life Inspiration, and More
At Sundance, we sat down with Hartigan, Robinson, and Christmas to discuss the making of the film and the development of its characters....
[Sundance Review] Kiki
Ball culture is alive and well in New York. Though the practice of young gay and trans people of color organizing themselves into Houses of support and meeting ...
[Sundance Review] Unlocking the Cage
Revered documentarian duo Chris Hegedus and D. A. Pennebaker have been in the game long enough that putting together a reasonably engaging piece of work on an u...
[Sundance Review] The Illinois Parables
In 11 chapters occupying a mere hour’s running time, The Illinois Parables biographizes the namesake state from prehistory to the present. Each segment is tied ...
[Sundance Review] Tickled
New Zealand entertainment reporter David Farrier discovered possibly the oddest conspiracy to yet feature in nonfiction film. Farrier came across Internet video...
[Sundance Review] The Lovers and the Despot
It’s astonishing that the story of Shin Sang-ok and Choi Eun-hee has not made it onto movie screens before now, whether as a documentary or a work of fiction. I...
