The majority of my eighth grade memories involve moments of immense anxiety—largely related to socializing—which happens to align perfectly with my memories of right now. Comedian Bo Burnham’s directorial feature debut Eighth Grade, which I got a chance to see at Sundance, picks up on and projects many of the fears…
Here’s a glimpse at RBG, the upcoming documentary about the beloved Supreme Court Justice, ranging from her legal battles to her modern-day status as a meme.
The movies that drive awards season each year, more often than not, function as simple slices of normal white life; they’re stories about everyday white people who get to be regular, regardless of plot or genre. Last year, it was Casey Affleck’s tragic Manchester by the Sea. This year, besides the typical historical…
Director Jennifer Fox’s autobiographical film The Tale—an account of her sexual abuse as a teen—inherently contains multitudes, at a time when the public is struggling to talk about the very delicate topic the movie concerns. Sexual assault has effectively metastasized into a hashtag, a movement often exploited as…
PARK CITY, UTAH — Marginalized stories aren’t exactly new ground for Sundance, at 40 years old, but its collection of films still tend to double as topical barometers of the moment. Since the real world is teeming with stories about Nazis, racism, sexual assault, and power imbalance, many of the films that’ve been…
PARK CITY, UTAH — Seeing Allred, a Netflix documentary that premiered at Sundance, features footage of subject Gloria Allred on the talk show Dinah! in 1977. Allred, in a brown suit and bowl-cropped hairdo, pops up from the audience to respond to a question from the host, Dinah Shore, about the outdated expectations…
PARK CITY, UTAH—For hundreds of years*, Sundance has played host to a spate of brilliant and buzzy films, filmmakers and famous people, thanks in part to the festival’s chairman Robert Redford, the Jesus of Hollywood who each year bestows upon Utah an event where independent films can be seen, heard and felt. But for…
In light of recent, cataclysmic events, I find myself deeply interested in locating Things That Are Good. I expect many of you pals are embarking on similar expeditions. And so I give you the trailer for I Don’t Feel At Home in This World Anymore, a crime thriller from Netflix that has just premiered at the Sundance…
The Bechdel test, as you know, asks whether female characters in a film speak to each other about things other than men; the DuVernay test, newly minted by the New York Times, asks how many times minorities speak about things other than white people. You know, like people of color actually do!
Those who saw Birth of a Nation for the first time at this year’s Sundance Film Festival discovered that Gabrielle Union has a small but powerful role in Nate Parker’s not-yet-released but already historic movie.
Kristen Stewart has words for those lamenting the pervasive gender inequality in Hollywood: stop bitching and start working towards change.
Alert: A film called Digging for Fire premiered at Sundance and it's about...something. The important part is that Chris Messina appears nude in it. Go see it.
One of the best-worst moments from Sex and the City is when dummy Jack Berger breaks up with Carrie on a Post-It note. Graciously, the actor who played Berger, Ron Livingston, recreated that note on the spot at the Sundance Film Festival.
Women directors may not have had much luck at the Oscars this year, but things are going very well for one female director at the Sundance. Ava DuVernay, director of the drama Middle of Nowhere just won the Best Director for Dramatic Film award at the festival. She is the first black woman to win the award. Middle of…
Park City, UT, Jan 22: Zooey Deschanel attends "My Idiot Brother" Premiere at the Eccles Center Theatre during the 2011 Sundance Film Festival. (Image via Getty.)
[Park City, Utah, January 21: Liv Tyler is top-heavy in her big overcoat(s?) as she poses at the premiere of her new film The Ledge at the Sundance Film Festival . Image via AP.]
The Sundance Film Festival now includes an annual ping-pong tournament "to keep the cool kids warm in the snow." But some cool kids/celebrities would rather play the game than watch, as these pics prove. Let's read their minds together!
Secret sources say that Snoop Dogg "insisted" on receiving a stockpile of watermelon-flavored gum as part of his rider request—requiring staffers to embark on a frantic search for the stuff. Why didn't he just bring his own?
[Park City, Utah; January 24. Image via Getty]
