SLUG Contributor Limelight
January 3, 2024
Contributor Limelight: Daniel Kirkham
Daniel Kirkham has been a dedicated Film Writer for SLUG since November 2022, providing nuanced reviews and in-depth film festival coverage of Slamdance and Damn These Heels. Read his recent review of The Boy and the Heron and look out for his upcoming reviews on the 2024 Sundance Film Festival program!
Articles by contributor
Sundance Film Review: Brief History of a Family
What a vibrant debut this is, feverish with ideas and energy. Whatever Lin’s next project is, he’s got no shortage of infectious ingenuity to pull it off. … read more
Sundance Film Review: Agent of Happiness
Agent of Happiness is a film that poses many questions, though the only answer it can give is that happiness is reliable only in its elusiveness. … read more
Sundance Film Review: Between the Temples
Nathan Silver’s comedy Between the Temples is bursting at its haphazardly-stitched seams with fun starring the hilarious duo Jason Schwartzman and Carol Kane. … read more
Sundance Film Review: I Saw The TV Glow
I Saw the TV Glow is funnier and warmer than Scheonbrun’s debut We’re All Going to the World’s Fair, but it’s also more genuinely frightening and disturbing. … read more
A Discussion on I’m ‘George Lucas’: A Connor Ratliff Story...
Since 2014, Ratliff has interviewed baffled celebrity guests in character as Lucas, at first on stage at Hell’s Kitchen’s UCB Theatre and, since the pandemic, over elaborately live streamed video conference calls. … read more
Sundance Film Review: The Outrun
The Outrun follows Saoirse Ronan’s character Rona through a cycle of victories and relapses as she seeks out a personal reset that will stick. … read more
Sundance Film Review: A Real Pain
In A Real Pain, two cousins reunite after their grandmother’s death for a trip to Poland, where old family tensions resurface. … read more
Sundance Film Review: A New Kind of Wilderness
After living in an isolated Norwegian forest, a family is forced to adapt to the modern world in Silje Evensmo Jacobsen’s A New Kind of Wilderness. … read more
Sundance Film Review: EVERY LITTLE THING
In EVERY LITTLE THING, a woman undertakes a transformative journey as she cares for wounded hummingbirds. … read more
Film Review: The Boy and the Heron
With The Boy and the Heron, Hayao Miyazaki looks boldly and joyfully into that unknown and lets his audience know that it’s okay for us to go on ahead. … read more
Damn These Heels! Film Review: Empty Orchestra
Empty Orchestra is a tender and moving document of Boxcar Karaoke’s fondly shared memories. … read more
Film Review: Asteroid City
For all of Asteroid City’s careful layers of contrivance, it shows a collage of delicately emotional characters. … read more
Film Review: Black Orpheus
In Black Orpheus, a sense pervades that the events are animated by the breath of the past and will restate themselves again and again. … read more
Film Review: Infinite Sea
Where so much sci-fi asks, “What would this mean for humanity?” Infinite Sea asks, “What would this mean for a human?” … read more
BYU International Cinema Series: 03.22–25
While Zebraman, Memoria, 1982 and A Man called Ove offer drastically different stories & tones, they’re united by themes of isolation, community and connection. … read more
This is Where We Meet: Nina Ognjanović on Where the...
Nina Ognjanović’s self-assessment makes of her debut feature, Where the Road Leads, as a coming-of-age western, makes perfect sense. … read more
Film Review: M3GAN
Knowingly a little goofy, new horror film M3GAN excavates its scares from the deepest, most plasticky recesses of the uncanny valley. … read more
Film Review: The Eternal Daughter
Joanna Hogg’s work is deeply personal, and in a year of reflective works, The Eternal Daughter is one of the strangest, most tender and very best. … read more
Film Review: Four Samosas
The team behind Four Samosas clearly put a lot of thought and finesse into its presentation—if only they had a more polished script to present. … read more