Sundance Review: Nothing Compares Reassesses the Downfall of Sinéad O’Connor
If you know Sinéad O’Connor’s name it’s likely two images come to mind: a buzzed head in a black turtleneck, a ripped-up photograph of Pope John Paul II. Kathr...
Shayna Warner
Sundance Review: Riotsville, USA is an Archival Indictment of a Police State
Riotsville isn’t just a place. It’s an idea; a fiction written by the enforcers of order to “demonstrate the presence of a superior force.” Riotsville is porta...
Sundance Review: Florida’s Finest Geriatric Dance Troupe Gets a Playful Spotlight in Calendar Girls
Let’s get one thing straight: no one just casually becomes a member of the Calendar Girls, Southwestern Florida’s premier geriatric dance troupe. As founder an...
Unearthing the Joys of Jane Fonda and Donald Sutherland’s Anti-Vietnam War Doc F.T.A.
Against the star-spangled, quilted backdrop of what looks like it could be a friendly, amateur Fourth of July talent show, Jane Fonda, Donald Sutherland, and t...
Sundance Review: A Black Trans Legend Gets the Spotlight in My Name is Pauli Murray
Everyone should know who Pauli Murray is, and it’s baffling that more of us don’t. That’s the most effective aspect of the biographical documentary My Name is ...
Sundance Review: Pleasure is a Moralizing Porn Odyssey That Could Have Set a Higher Bar
Pleasure is, in its bones, a classic tale of the corrupting allure of fame. A young starlet-to-be arrives in Hollywood, becomes both entranced and envious of t...
Sundance Review: Rebecca Hall’s Painstaking Directorial Debut Passing Seductively Shatters Façades
Rebecca Hall’s Passing has been fifteen years in the making, and that dedication shows in every meticulously crafted frame. Adapted from Nella Larsen’s 1929 no...
Shayna Warner
Shayna Maci Warner (@bernieteeters) is a Brooklyn-based film programmer and writer. Their words on queer feelings and films appear in Autostraddle, Paste Magazine and Letterboxd among others, and they write a newsletter about the girls and gays that make movies worth watching.