film
Film Review: The Card Counter
The Card Counter is moody and depressing at times, but it has a lot to say and kept me so glued to the screen that I barely blinked. … read more
Damn These Heels! Film Review: Shit & Champagne
Shit & Champagne the type of film that, come hell or high water, will keep on pushing through until you either laugh or leave. … read more
David Cross, Bigfoot and The Journey of “The Dark Divide”
Anyone who paid attention in their high school English class likely has some familiarity with “The Hero’s Journey.” It’s the template for most storytelling, wherein a hero goes on an adventure, is victorious (or sometimes fails) and comes home changed by it. But for Robert Michael Pyle, a real-life hero’s journey took place in 1995
Black to the Future: Celia C. Peters Talks Afrofuturism: Blackness...
Celia C. Peters believes that Afrofuturism can take many different forms, and that what storytellers choose to do with it is wide open. … read more
Film Review: Come Away
Come Away is the cinematic equivalent of a burnt, frozen, reheated casserole made up of stale ingredients that don’t compliment each other. … read more
Film Review: Work It
Starring Sabrina Carpenter and Liza Koshy, Work It is light as a feather, and it’s a pleasant enough diversion that will get your feet tapping. … read more
The Language of the Body Told Through Cinema’s Frame: The...
Founder Ellen Bromberg discusses her plans for the upcoming Screendance Festival, an event that showcases dance for camera and film. … read more
Film Review: Tanked
Tanked opens up with stark silence as protagonist Eric (Eric Yevak) works on something mysterious with the help of some PBR and an X-acto knife. … read more
Almost Ablaze: Teton Gravity Research Film Screening
Opening up the film is lead female skier Angel Collinson. Perched atop a pristine Alaskan peak, she secures her pack and drops into thin air. The next 3,000 vertical are a high-speed smoke show as she rips the icy face to pieces. … read more
Desire Will Set You Free: Interview with Director Yony Leyser
Yony Leyser’s new film, a feature-length narrative that mixes autobiographic and docu-fictional elements, follows a cast of outsiders through a subcultural landscape that is uniquely outsider—Berlin. SLUG spoke with Leyser about writing, directing and acting in the film, and the Kickstarter campaign that he hopes will help bring the film to Utah’s film festival circuit. … read more