David Lynch has left the planet. Yet it still seems so surreal much like the body of work he leaves in his wake. After David’s passing, I got in touch with Matthew Kalil who has been a student of Lynch’s…
Read morePARK CITY – Somewhere in the Black Sea, residents of the remote island of Carpathia have spent decades, maybe centuries, trying to vanquish a species of vermin known as the Ochi. Never heard of an Ochi? Well, this fictional creature…
Read morePARK CITY – PARK CITY – The logline for Sierra Falconer’s “Sunfish (& Other Green Lake Stories),” a world premiere at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival, must sound like a snooze. The description of the first story in the official…
Read morePARK CITY – Not all established documentary filmmakers make the jump to narrative features gracefully, but whatever your thoughts on “The Thing With Features,” you certainly won’t question whether Dylan Southern has a vision. “Feathers,” his first friction work, debuted…
Read morePARK CITY – Here’s the good news. There isn’t one actor in Evan Twohy‘s directorial debut, “Bubble & Squeak,” who doesn’t deliver a committed, funny performance. The film’s leads, the always-good Himesh Patel and Sarah Goldberg have fantastic chemistry as…
Read moreStories of Westerners joining ISIS make for popular news fodder, and now one is getting the coming-of-age Sundance debut treatment. For her film debut, theater director Nadia Hill took on “Brides,” Suhayla El-Bushra’s screenplay that draws inspiration from the real-life…
Read morePARK CITY – Often, but not always, you need to tip your cap to a filmmaker willing to push boundaries with their debut feature film. Frankly, as a director, you never know if you’re gonna get that chance (or budget)…
Read moreNearly two years after its riveting Netflix debut, The Night Agent has finally returned for a second season on January 23, 2025. Bigger, bolder, and more expansive, the sophomore chapter finds Peter Sutherland (Gabriel Basso) on a globe-trotting adventure that…
Read moreHBO's The Sopranos is arguably the greatest and most influential television series ever made. Centering on family patriarch and mob boss Tony Soprano (played memorably by the late James Gandolfini), the series explores the often brutal day-to-day business of the…
Read moreCreated by R. Scott Gemmill, The Pitt is a Max original and the latest medical drama to enter the fray. However, unlike Grey’s Anatomy, Doctor Odyssey, or Chicago Med, this series aims to tell a more realistic version of life…
Read moreIt's always so satisfying when certain performances eclipse genre expectations, challenging audiences to reconsider an actor's range. It's delightful when a great actor shows up seemingly out of the blue and just nails it. Liam Neeson's portrayal of the Impresario…
Read moreWhat would you do if you found out your partner was lying to you about liking your work? That is the question at the core of Nicole Holofcener's 2023 film You Hurt My Feelings. It stars Julia Louis-Dreyfus as Beth,…
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