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Guest Writer: Jordan Brown Other people: they can be a real bummer. Especially if you’re painfully shy and awkward in any social interaction that doesn’t include your mother. This is Jeanne’s problem in Zoé Wittock’s debut feature Jumbo, a whimsical coming-of-age story about forbidden love – typical fodder you’ll find at Sundance, but with an

Every year I see 30-40 movies at Sundance and I only get the chance to…

Review by Bears Rebecca Fonte Every year it becomes easier to publicly announce my love for Taylor Swift. My initial shock and surprise at the depth, musical complexity and pure pop perfection of her 2014 album ‘1989” has only been deepened by Tay-Tay’s open up her heart on “Reputation,” showing both sadness and rage. Netflix

Review by Paul Salfen Assassin 33 A.D. might be one of the most perplexingly unique films to come along in quite some time. From director Jim Carroll, and based on his award-winning script, this is a sci-fi/action/drama/romance hybrid (complete with plenty of comedic elements) about a group of scientists that invent a time machine that

Sundance is here again, let the snow begin! Or not, actually, because this year I…

INHERIT THE VIPER casts a lens on the opioid crisis through the eyes of a European, Swiss Director Anthony Jerjen.  The film delivers a dark drama set in small-town Ohio (actually filmed in Alabama) which is made all the more poignant by the fact that situations depicted in the film are all-too pervasive in certain

Described as equal parts comedy and drama, VHYES hit theaters nationwide January 17th. Listen as Paul Salfen talks to Producer Tim Robbins, Director Jack Henry Robbins, And Actress Kerry Kenney just after the screening of VHYES at Fantastic Fest 2019. A bizarre retro comedy shot entirely on VHS, VHYes takes us back to a simpler

Interview by Paul Salfen SYNOPSIS: When Frank goes out on the town to celebrate an upcoming promotion, his night takes an unexpected and bizarre turn when he is dosed with a hallucinogen that alters his perception and changes his life forever. Paul Salfen talks to actor Justin Long and director Gille Kablin during Fantastic Fest

For many horror fans, The Beyond is one of the most memorable films in their discovery of the genre. It’s the second film in Lucio Fulci’s “Gates of Hell” trilogy, falling between City of the Living Dead in 1980 and The House by the Cemetery, also in 1981. Often called “an Italian Southern Gothic supernatural

Interview by Paul Salfen WAVES is being heralded by critics as joy and pain, a film with anguish yet a call to forgiveness for family. We talk to  Texas Director/Writer Trey Edward Shults, who hails from Texas but now lives in Florida. From writer/director Trey Edward Shults and starring Kelvin Harrison, Jr., Lucas Hedges, Taylor