Month: January 2020
![Slamdance Film Review: Bastards’ Road](https://www.slugmag.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/BR-Rogovy-Poster-Image.jpg)
Slamdance Film Review: Bastards’ Road
Bastards’ Road is a film portraying a sense of hope in veterans creating their own network, breaking down the stigma of struggling with PTSD and reaching out to one another. … read more
![Slamdance Film Review: Murmur](https://www.slugmag.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/murmur_0HERO.jpg)
Slamdance Film Review: Murmur
Writer-director Heather Young approaches the themes of love, loneliness and dependence from a different angle in her award-winning feature debut, Murmur. … read more
![Sundance Film Review: The Killing of Two Lovers](https://www.slugmag.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/49102992832_0cc567be51_c-1.jpg)
Sundance Film Review: The Killing of Two Lovers
Really, all of the actors of The Killing of Two Lovers do a great job. The writing, however, keeps its semblances of story low to the ground and linear. … read more
![Sundance Film Review: Ironbark AKA The Courier](https://www.slugmag.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Ironbark-1024x576.jpg)
Sundance Film Review: Ironbark AKA The Courier
The audience shifted nervously in their seats as mushroom clouds blossomed and Cold War events unfolded in Dominic Cooke’s Ironbark. … read more
![Sundance Film Review: Summertime](https://www.slugmag.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/49106197833_b92cd97d80_c.jpg)
Sundance Film Review: Summertime
Summertime Sundance Film Festival Director: Carlos López Estrada Opening with a girl wearing roller skates, singing poetry into her guitar on a pier in Venice Beach, Summertime establishes the plot as a snapshot in the day of a life of different teens and young adults around Los Angeles. There are many characters in the story,
![Film Review: Dolittle](https://www.slugmag.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/dolittle-2020-movie-x7.jpg)
Film Review: Dolittle
Dolittle isn’t going to be winning any awards, but if you’re looking for a fun, fast-paced family movie, you could do a lot worse. … read more
![Book Review: Recipe for Chaos](https://www.slugmag.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Recipe-for-chaos.jpg)
Book Review: Recipe for Chaos
In Recipe for Chaos, readers get another visit from protagonist Detective Lincoln Coulter as he investigates the murder of celebrity chef Renny Shepherd. … read more
![Sundance Film Review: Us Kids](https://www.slugmag.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/49160269543_e12a81b046_c.jpg)
Sundance Film Review: Us Kids
Us Kids Sundance Film Festival Director: Kim A. Snyder The shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, is still fresh for many, particularly for the students who survived the ordeal. With the second anniversary of the tragic event looming, documentary Us Kids is the story of the survivors dealing with their trauma.
![Sundance Film Festival: Save Yourselves!](https://www.slugmag.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/49101646307_841f9b3083_c.jpg)
Sundance Film Festival: Save Yourselves!
The timing couldn’t be worse for Su (Sunita Mani) and Jack (John Reynolds) to go off the grid. … read more
![Sundance Film Review: Be Water](https://www.slugmag.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/49134794418_c12bd400c3_c.jpg)
Sundance Film Review: Be Water
Be Water Sundance Film Festival Director: Bao Nguyen There is no denying the presence and charisma that Bruce Lee has onscreen. His quick, agile fighting style captured audiences in Hong Kong, America, and around the world. Be Water explores Bruce Lee in the context of the ’60s and ’70s in America and how he was