Sundance Review: First Date Captures a Wild Night with First Film Blunders

First Date contains all the trappings of a first film. With a minimal budget, the technicality of Darren Knapp and Manuel Crosby’s debut feature falters, unabl...

Sundance Review: Try Harder! is a Focused, Rejection-Heavy Examination of the College Admissions Process

Lowell High School sits in the southwest corner of San Francisco, below Golden Gate Park and near Lake Merced. In a city filled with money, technology, entrepr...

Sion Sono on Briefly Dying, His Favorite Nicolas Cage Performance, and Prisoners of the Ghostland

The 57th directorial credit in his vast filmography, Sion Sono's Prisoners of the Ghostland premieres at this year’s Sundance before his 56th, Red Post on Esch...

Benedict Cumberbatch is The Courier in First Trailer for Cold War Drama

Having taken on Alan Turing, Julian Assange, and Thomas Edison, Benedict Cumberbatch is no stranger to playing real people. He is seen doing it again the new t...

Richard Kelly on Expanding the World of Southland Tales, Cannes Cut Reactions, and the Aftermath of 9/11

To argue there's been a Southland Tales renaissance over the past decade is hardly controversial. Widely derided at its 2006 Cannes premiere—famous out the gat...

Wonder Woman 1984 Review: A Bloated, Extravagant Sequel in a Time of Excess

Wonder Woman 1984 starts with an elaborate prologue and a simple message. Back on the island of Themyscira, a young Diana Prince competes against a handful of ...

Sundance Film Festival 2021 Lineup Announced

Taking place January 28 through February 3 next year, the 2021 Sundance Film Festival will look quite different than ever before. After unveiling their screeni...

The Black List’s 2020 List of Best Unproduced Screenplays

Rounding up the best unproduced screenplays in Hollywood, as voted on by hundreds of film executives, The Black List has been a strong resource to clue one in ...

Slamdance Film Festival Announces 2021 Lineup and Free All-Access Passes

As with most festivals in a pandemic world, Slamdance Film Festival is changing things up with their 2021 edition. Moving a few weeks back to February 12-25, n...

DOC NYC Review: Television Event Examines the Phenomenon of the Made-For-ABC Movie The Day After

The idea of 67% of American households tuning into a network television movie seems almost absurd in 2020. The Super Bowl can rate those numbers, but a movie? ...