Festival Coverage
Slamdance Film Review: Ratter
A ratter is a type of hacker who breaks through the security of your computer, mobile device or webcam to take control of that device—more specifically, the device’s camera. … read more
Slamdance Film Review: High Performance
Rudi’s a corporate professional, all business, while Daniel’s a bike-riding (aspiring) avant-garde theater actor, who isn’t that guy in the soda pop commercial, he insists. … read more
Slamdance Film Review: Concrete Love: The Böhm Family
It’s a documentary that drafts an adroit portrait of the renowned Pritzker Prize laureate Gottfried Böhm, his architect wife Elisabeth and their three sons, Peter, Paul and Stephen, each of whom is also an architect. … read more
Slamdance Film Review: Clinger
In this extraordinary tribute to ’80s horror, director Michael Steves will make you laugh till you die.Gather up a few buckets of blood and go see this film. … read more
Sundance Film Review: The Royal Road
As Director Jenni Olson travels on an Amtrak train from San Francisco to Los Angeles, she verbally paints a stunning portrait of the unassuming structures and singles out minute details that transport viewers directly into her shoes. … read more
Sundance Film Review: Being Evel
With archival footage and hilarious dialogue taking up the majority of the flick, Director Daniel Jungle unveils both the stunts and the darker side of America’s favorite stuntman Robert Craig Knievel aka Evel Knievel. … read more
Slamdance Film Review: They Look Like People
It boggles my mind that the slight movement of someone’s jaw, a bottle of sulfuric acid and a nail gun combine for the most terrifying film I’ve seen this decade. … read more
Sundance Film Review: Station to Station
Station to Station is, essentially, a quilt of footage orchestrated by Director Doug Aitken on a train from the Atlantic to the Pacific over the course of 4,000 miles. Aitken introduced the film before the SLC Library Theatre screening as a synthesis of different artistic mediums that connect in a filmic juncture, which they initially ventured to shape into a traditional documentary but later decided to condense different portions into 61 one-minute segments to convey certain points of the train’s journey. … read more
Sundance Film Review: I Am Michael
Audiences are first introduced to Michael Glatze as he chastises a young gay teenager and declares moral individuals choose heterosexuality and God. However, this was not always the case with him. Director Justin Kelly effectively leads audiences though the life of a confused individual who abandons one life for another while outsiders both ridicule and praise his challenging choice.
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Sundance Film Review: Christmas, Again
While there is value in creating cinema that captures the everyday human experience, Christmas, Again overshoots that mark by being so real that it’s boring. At the very least, films should tell stories about interesting characters. … read more