#SUNDANCE: “SUMMERING”
By Amanda Gilmore
James Ponsoldt’s latest Feature follows four best friends, Daisy (Lia Barnett), Mari (Eden Grace Red Field), Dina (Madalen Mills) and Lola (Sanai Victoria) on the last weekend of summer before entering middle school. When they arrive at their secret spot in the woods to lay trinkets from their summer together, they find a dead body. They spend the next day finding out who he was and what happened to him.There’s a lot to love ...
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#SUNDANCE: “WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT COSBY”
By Justin Waldman
We Need to talk about Cosby explores how "America’s Dad" went on to be exposed as a monster, a sexual predator for over 40 years. It is hard to separate art from the people who create it, and the Documentary touches on that, but it is a little too soft at times for the exploration of what Bill Cosby has done, and not what he’s done. It will be premiering episodically over four weeks, which may dilute its potency, however it packs the punch that it needs to bring to the ...
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#SUNDANCE: “HATCHING”
By Justin Waldman
For someone’s Feature debut to be so absolutely beautifully twisted and messed up is such a delight and that is exactly what Hanna Bergholm manages with Hatching. It is a rare occurrence to see something that embraces the work of David Cronenberg and Yorgos Lanthimos so perfectly, but that is what gets delivered by Screenwriter Iija Ratusi. Hatching is a haunting, terrifying, creature family movie.
The Mother, Sophia Heikkila, has a blog about the perfect family love ...
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#SUNDANCE: “DUAL”
By Amanda Gilmore
After learning she has a terminal illness, Sarah (Karen Gillan) decides to participate in a futuristic cloning procedure to help ease her partner and family’s impending loss. Ten months later, she learns that she’s in remission and decides to decommission her clone. However, Sarah’s Double files a motion to live and they are set for a duel to the death.Writer/Director Riley Stearns’ third Feature is a dark Sci-Fi Comedy with a pair of powerful performances ...
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#FIRSTLOOK: “INTO THE DARK” COMING TO HOLLYWOOD SUITE
Hollywood Suite is proud to be broadcasting INTO THE DARK, sure to delight Horror fans! The 24-episode Film Anthology features a star-studded Cast, told at the length of feature films.
Synopsis:
With 24 terrifying tales from a broad selection of genre filmmakers, creators and actors, each film features Blumhouse’s signature spin on a holiday story. From Valentine’s Day, to Mother’s Day and even Pet Appreciation Week – viewers can celebrate the horrors of the holidays all year ...
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#SUNDANCE: “GIRL PICTURE”
By Amanda Gilmore
Best friends Mimmi (Aamu Milonoff) and Rönkkö (Eleonoora Kauhanen) spend their days working at a smoothie shop openly contemplating their sex and love lives. Meanwhile, Emma has given her whole life to figure skating with little time for a social life. Over the course of three Fridays, Mimmi and Emma experience first love and Rönkkö goes on a quest to find something she's never experienced before: ...
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#SUNDANCE: “AM I OK?”
By Amanda Gilmore
AM I OK? is a touching Comedy and an ode to female friendship.
The Film follows inseparable Los Angeles best friends Lucy (Dakota Johnson) and Jane (Sonoya Mizuno). When Jane’s new promotion requires her to move to London, Lucy confesses her long-held secret: She likes women. In the lead up to their impending separation, we follow as Jane prepares for her big move and Lucy searches for her first sexual experience with a woman.
What sets AM I OK? apart is that it ...
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#SUNDANCE: “WHEN YOU FINISH SAVING THE WORLD”
By David Baldwin
Ziggy (Finn Wolfhard) is a high school student who performs original Folk tunes online for his worldwide audience of 20,000 people. His overbearing mother Evelyn (Oscar-winner Julianne Moore) runs a shelter for domestic abuse survivors. Despite the greatness of their shared memories, they do not get along and only interact in passing. With Ziggy’s time taken-up trying to become more politically savvy to impress a girl, Evelyn takes to one of the shelter’s new residents ...
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#SUNDANCE: “THE MISSION”
By Amanda Gilmore
Each year, thousands of missionaries from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, or Mormons, are sent across the world to preach their gospel. The Mission follows four American teens who leave their religious communities and journey to one of the most non-religious countries in Europe: Finland.Director Tania Anderson, in her first feature-length Documentary, brings us behind the nametags and into the lives of those who knock on our doors and stop us on ...
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#SUNDANCE: “AFTER YANG”
By David Baldwin
After premiering at Cannes this past July, celebrated Writer/Director Kogonada’s second feature AFTER YANG finally makes its North American debut. It takes place in the near future, where families live with sentient AI android helpers and companions. When Yang (Justin H. Min from The Umbrella Academy), the AI helper for Jake (Colin Farrell), Kyra (Jodie Turner-Smith) and young Mika (Malea Emma Tjandrawidjaja), malfunctions and breaks down, the family is distraught. Jake ...
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