Slamdance Film Review: I Am Thor

Slamdance Film Review: I Am Thor
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With a music career spanning five decades, Jon Mikl Thor is perhaps one of the legends of rock and metal that you definitely need to be aware of. … read more

Sundance Film Review: Chorus

Sundance Film Review: Chorus
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Chorus is shot in a dreary black and white that underlines the turmoil with which Irène (Fanny Mallette) and Christophe (Sébastien Ricard) have suffered for 10 years, since the disappearance and presumed death of their son in Quebec. … read more

Slamdance Film Review: Sweet Micky For President

Slamdance Film Review: Sweet Micky For President
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In this musically-satiated documentary, Michel ‘Sweet Micky’ Martelly begins his political journey to become Haiti’s President. … read more

Sundance Film Review: The Amina Profile

Sundance Film Review: The Amina Profile
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The Amina Profile documentary follows Montrealer Sandra Bagaria’s online relationship with Amina Arraf, a lesbian woman from Damascus, Syria, near the onset of the Arab Revolution. … read more

Sundance Film Review: The Summer of Sangaile

Sundance Film Review: The Summer of Sangaile
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Set in Lithuania and spoken in Lithuanian, Sangailé (Julija Steponaityté) is a timid, adolescent young woman who marvels at such stunt planes, but she fears heights on account of her vertigo. Austé (Aisté Diržiūté) coaxes her to hang out with her and her friends group; eventually, the two girls become lovers as Austé, an aspiring fashion designer/photographer, threads her way into Sangailé’s heart by making clothes for and taking photos of her. … read more

Slamdance Film Review: Batkid Begins: The Wish Heard Around the World

Slamdance Film Review: Batkid Begins: The Wish Heard Around the...
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Batkid Begins shows us what is possible when people work together, care about each other and create true community with one another. … read more

Sundance Film Review: It Follows

Sundance Film Review: It Follows
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David Robert Mitchell’s dissection of the paranoia and emotional detachment that plagues our suburbs is the genesis of this fresh interpretation of the horror genre. It Follows feels like a natural progression of the teenage horror film—one that uses the complexity of today’s young people as a canvas for some expertly-crafted, psychosexual drama. … read more

Sundance Film Review: 6 Desires: DH Lawrence and Sardinia

Sundance Film Review: 6 Desires: DH Lawrence and Sardinia
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On paper, this film comes across as pretty damn intellectually daunting—the type of film that goes over your head. But something about the director’s rhythmic narration set to images of dew-flecked spider webs succeed in transporting the audience into this strange world that appears to have remained unchanged since the 1920s. … read more

Slamdance Film Review: Trees That Walk (Alberi che Camminano)

Slamdance Film Review: Trees That Walk (Alberi che Camminano)
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Trees That Walk follows the path of wood as it’s cut down, cut up, shaped and turned into lumber for homes, works of art, musical instruments and more. … read more

Sundance Film Review: Pervert Park

Sundance Film Review: Pervert Park
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Florida Justice Transition is an adults-only trailer-home community—that’s because it’s a space designed for previously convicted sex offenders reintegrating into society, post-incarceration. … read more