Month: January 2023
![Sundance Film Review: When It Melts](https://www.slugmag.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/when-it-melts-sundance-film-review-1024x576.webp)
Sundance Film Review: When It Melts
Despite the immense talent involved, Sundance film When it Melts is a frustrating failure both as a film and as a statement on an important and timely topic. … read more
![Director Toby Genkel on The Amazing Maurice and That Pratchett Melody](https://www.slugmag.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/the-amazing-maurice-sundance-film-review-1024x576.webp)
Director Toby Genkel on The Amazing Maurice and That Pratchett...
Director Toby Genkel’s new film, The Amazing Maurice, a subversively cynical animated take on the Pied Piper of Hamelin’s story. … read more
![Sundance Film Review: STILL: A Michael J. Fox Movie](https://www.slugmag.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/still-a-michael-j-fox-movie-sundance-review-1024x576.webp)
Sundance Film Review: STILL: A Michael J. Fox Movie
Sundance biopic STILL: A Michael J. Fox Movie provokes plenty of emotion without ever stooping to being a manipulative tearjerker. … read more
![Sundance Film Review: Blueback](https://www.slugmag.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/sundance-film-festival-blueback-review-1024x576.webp)
Sundance Film Review: Blueback
Starring Mia Wasikowska, the Sundance feature Blueback is an entertaining family film that wears its conservationist credentials on its sleeve. … read more
![Sundance Film Review: A Little Prayer](https://www.slugmag.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/a-little-prayer-sundance-film-review-1024x576.webp)
Sundance Film Review: A Little Prayer
The family drama A Little Prayer is a reminder that the once-budding young playwright and filmmaker Angus MacLachlan has come a long way. … read more
![Sundance Film Review: Eileen](https://www.slugmag.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/eileen-william-oldroyd-1024x576.webp)
Sundance Film Review: Eileen
Eileen is an engaging, pulpy diversion that plays like an old-fashioned dime novel you had never planned to read but find that you can’t put down. … read more
![Sundance Film Review: Slow](https://www.slugmag.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/slow-maija-kavtaradze-1024x576.webp)
Sundance Film Review: Slow
Described as a portrait of a “beautiful bond,” Slow is instead a grim character study of a deeply unlikable individual with a regressive view of sexuality. … read more
![Review: Beauty Pill – Blue Period](https://www.slugmag.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/beauty-pill-blue-period-album-review-1024x1024.webp)
Review: Beauty Pill – Blue Period
Beauty Pill = Pixies + Dry Cleaning + La Luz … read more
![Review: Billy Nomates – Cacti](https://www.slugmag.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/billy-nomates-cacti-1024x1024.webp)
Review: Billy Nomates – Cacti
Billy Nomates = The Smiths + Lorde … read more
![Sundance Film Review: Run Rabbit Run](https://www.slugmag.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/run-rabbit-run-daina-reid-1024x576.webp)
Sundance Film Review: Run Rabbit Run
Run Rabbit Run makes literal the terror of cyclic, generational trauma and manifests the underlying tension of carrying a burden of guilt into a new generation. … read more