Although originally launched as the “U.S. Film Festival”,  Sundance has always held a special place for international films and filmmakers. Among this year’s lineup of international features was Filipiñana, a coming of age drama from the Phillipines that tells a poignant tale of culture and class with some unfortunately mixed execution. Filipiñana , the story of Isabel (Jorrybell Agoto), a Tee girl at a swanky Manilla golf course. After discovering that the president of the

As a child, I once asked my mother “There are Muslim terrorists and Christian terrorists, why aren’t there any Jewish terrorists?” My mother’s response was simple: “We barely survived The Holocaust. There aren’t enough of us for that.” As I got older and became more educated in history, my mother’s assertion began to fall apart. Not only had there been Jewish terrorists throughout history, but their numbers had grown in the wake of The Holocaust. I was upset with my mother, I

[The following review contains spoilers] Director, Tatsuya Yoshihara’s Chainsaw Man: The Movie—Reze Arc ripped its way into theaters this November to near-universal acclaim. This highly anticipated film, based on Tatsuki Fujimoto’s groundbreaking manga and MAPPA studio's 2022 anime adaptation, more than delivers on its promise of emotional intensity and narrative depth. Packing an entire story arc into a tight hour and forty minutes, the movie is anything but rushed. Its pa

[the following review is spoiler-free] If you are a parent to any young children, there's a good chance you've been dragged to your local movie theater this past week to see Disney's newest feature: Zootopia 2 . And if you're someone who stays up to date with the film world, you're probably aware of the fact that the movie has already grossed half a billion dollars in less than a week, making it on track to be one of the highest grossing films of all time. Putting other titl

On May 16th, 2024, at the Cannes Film Festival, audiences waited with baited breath for the premiere of Francis Ford Coppola's epic sci-fi feature: Megalopolis . A film that had been in production for nearly half a century, Megalopolis was one of the most ambitious cinematic projects of all time and marked the return of arguably the most revered director in the world. With a generation-spanning, star-studded cast, a gargantuan budget, and a script forty years in the making,

I can totally understand why someone may at first glance brush off Luca Guadagnino's After The Hunt,  or even find it insufferable. From the moment the trailer dropped, it was rife with odd camera angles, actors reading pretentious dialogue, and a literal ticking clock of a score that feels like it should be in the new Blumhouse horror flick. Considering that I saw the film much later than everybody else did, I was fully expecting to be just as, if not more annoyed by the who

This past January, the talk of the Sundance Film Festival was Geeta Gandbhir's The Perfect Neighbor , an American documentary about the murder of Ajike Owens. Murder documentaries are dime-a-dozen, but what makes Gandbhir's film so unique is that it's told almost exclusively via raw police bodycam footage over the course of two years. The film captured the attention of millions upon its arrival to Netflix on Friday, quickly shooting to the #1 spot on the platform. So let's ta

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On April 1st of 2010, filmmaker, Jafar Panahi was apprehended by Iranian authorities and was held in Tehran's Evin Prison for three...