The following is part of Full Circle Cinema’s coverage of Sundance 2023. Self-help is complicated. The concept itself is incredibly easy to process but difficult to actualize. How much of so-called “self-care” is actually giving yourself passes for your mistakes? Do […]
The following is part of Full Circle Cinema’s coverage of Sundance 2023. One of the biggest joys of a festival is seeing a film that you know will become a bonafide crowd-pleaser. You hear the buzz beforehand, and within a […]
The 2022 Sundance Film Festival continues to deliver films inspired by true events and Call Jane is one of the anticipated standouts. Inspired by the Jane Collective, a real-life network of women who provided illegal abortions at the time, Call Jane […]
Adult animation in America is always a bit of a toss-up. Transcendent art pieces like Don Hertzfeldt’s World of Tomorrow trilogy are often drowned out by cruder work like Sausage Party. Cryptozoo forges a new path ahead. Writer/creative director Dash Shaw and animation director […]
Writer-director Karen Cirrone has compared her debut feature, Mayday, to Wizard of Oz. The similarities are definitely there. In the midst of a storm, a young woman is swept into an exotic new world, experiencing a newfound sense of independence, soon longing for […]
The NEXT category at Sundance is one that defies categorization itself. It breaks conventional molds and introduces out-of-the-box thinking. Strawberry Mansion is a colorful spectacle that fits this definition perfectly. It is a surrealist delight that brings a childlike wonder […]
I Was a Simple Man joins Sundance 2021 as part of the US Dramatic Competition. It is an American story about various generations living in Hawai’i and the ghosts from the past that must be faced. Director Christopher Makoto Yogi […]
The 2021 Sundance Film Festival has begun, and it has kicked off the festivities with CODA. This charming coming-of-age story will most likely leave you in tears. While on the surface, it touches upon the usual topics of graduation, crushes, […]
