Tallulah Directed and written by Sian Heder USA, 2016 Sian Heder (writer and producer on Netflix’s Orange is the New Black) fleshes out the intersecting lives of three different women in her intricate debut feature. Tallulah follows a rambling young woman (Ellen Page of Juno, Inception, and The East) who bucks tradition and lives in …
Zombie’s ’31’ is a thoroughly dispensable gore-fest.
Morris from America Written and Directed by Chad Hartigan U.S., 2016 Having done well at the festival back in 2013 with This is Martin Bonner, writer/director Chad Hartigan returns to Sundance with Morris from America, a mostly generic crowd-pleaser with a good amount of charm. The plot follows young 13-year old African-American Morris Gentry (Markees Christmas), as he moves …
Kate Plays Christine Directed by Robert Greene U.S., 2016 One of the interesting things about Sundance this year is that two different films about the same subject matter have screened. In 1974 in Sarasota, Florida, TV reporter Christine Chubbuck shot herself on camera, an incident that reportedly served as an inspiration for Network. There was …
Watching ‘Dark Night,’ an indie drama that tracks the mundane events leading up to a mass shooting, was a decidedly bizarre experience.
Swiss Army Man Written and Directed by Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert U.S., 2016 One of the hopes that people come to the Sundance Film Festival with is that they will see something wholly unique, something that they have never seen or imagined before. Swiss Army Man is that film. This feeling happens pretty quickly, as …