THE BIJOU @ SUNDANCE: Let The (Show)Buzz Commence
> The Sundance Film Festival, like Toronto, issues its announcements about the films that will be screening in several stages. (Sundance’s sadism about actually obtaining tickets, however, is all its own.) Tod...
SHOWBUZZDAILY @ SUNDANCE REVIEW: “V/H/S”
V/H/S, which screened as part of Sundance’s Park City At Midnight series, is a gimmick piled upon a gimmick. First is the horror anthology itself, familiar from the Twilight Zone movie and Rod Serling’s Night...
SHOWBUZZDAILY @ SUNDANCE REVIEW: “The Pact”
It takes about an hour, but Nicholas McCarthy’s THE PACT, which premiered in the Park City At Midnight section at Sundance, eventually turns out to have a neat twist up its sleeve, one that switches the movie from ...
THE BIJOU @ SUNDANCE: Behold the Edgy
> Sundance announced the second group of its 2012 titles today (Competition entries were announced yesterday; Premieres will be unveiled on Monday), mostly in what are traditionally the most untraditional categories of the Fest...
SHOWBUZZDAILY @ SUNDANCE REVIEW: “Celeste & Jesse Forever”
> The festival has its first crowd-pleaser in CELESTE AND JESSE FOREVER, a light but heartfelt romantic comedy-drama in the Woody Allen vein. Written by Rashida Jones (who also stars as Celeste) and Will Mc McCormack (on hand a...
SHOWBUZZDAILY @ SUNDANCE REVIEW: “Filly Brown”
FILLY BROWN, directed by Youssef Delara (who also wrote the script) and Michael D. Olmos, falls into a recognizable Sundance genre: sagas of poor young women (usually ethnic) struggling to escape their poverty a...
SHOWBUZZDAILY @ SUNDANCE: The Amityville Film Festival
> SHOWBUZZDAILY is only 2 weeks away from traveling to Park City, Utah for the 2012 Sundance Filim Festival, so the time seems right for a rant about the nightmare that is obtaining tickets for Sundance screenings. Every ...
SHOWBUZZDAILY Sundance Film Festival Reviews: “Horse Girl,” “Happy Happy Joy Joy” & “Kajillionaire”
HORSE GIRL (Netflix – February 7): Every one of the four films Jeff Baena has directed had its premiere at Sundance, with Horse Girl following Life After Beth, Joshy and The Little Hours. It’s an impressi...
SHOWBUZZDAILY FILM REVIEW: “The Way, Way Back”
THE WAY, WAY BACK: Watch It At Home – Modestly Engaging Coming-Of-Age Tale THE WAY, WAY BACK is one of the last real indie hopes for a original breakout hit this summer (it was a big buy out of Sundance, a $10M p...
SHOWBUZZDAILY @ SUNDANCE 2013: “The East”
A couple of Sundances ago, the actress/writer/producer Brit Marling was a festival darling, with two acclaimed pictures unveiled the same week. In the end, while both Another Earth and Sound of My Voice received di...
SHOWBUZZDAILY @ SUNDANCE REVIEW: “Shadow Dancer”
Plot and character revelations are a critical part of James Marsh’s subtle, complex spy drama SHADOW DANCER, adapted by Tom Bradby from his own novel, so I’ll be circumspect in describing its plot beyond the ...
SHOWBUZZDAILY Virtual Sundance Reviews: “Passing,” “Street Gang” & “Mass”
PASSING: The actress Rebecca Hall has taken a big swing in her writing/directing debut. Her film Passing, based on the 1929 novel by Nella Larsen, embraces ambitious, difficult themes with sensitivity and expertise.�...
SHOWBUZZDAILY @ SUNDANCE: Collected Reviews
Click on SHOWBUZZDAILY‘s reviews from this year’s Sundance Film Festival, in alphabetical order: 2 DAYS IN NEW YORK (Magnolia) BACHELORETTE (No Distrib) BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD (Fox Searchlight) CE...