Report From Sundance
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‘Phoenix Rising’ Film Review: Evan Rachel Wood Doc Shows Celebrity Doesn’t Shield Women From Abuse
Sundance 2022: The actress reveals the trauma of her relationship with Marilyn Manson and how it spurred her to become an activist on behalf of other abused women
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‘Alice’ Film Review: Keke Palmer Escapes Slavery and Embraces Her Inner Pam Grier
Sundance 2022: Krystin Ver Linden’s directorial debut takes audiences from the horrors of the plantation to the liberation of 1973
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‘TikTok, Boom.’ Film Review: Doc Explores Both the Opportunities and the Downside of the Thirst-Trap App
Sundance 2022: Director Shalini Kantayya bypasses the obvious digs at online attention-seeking and instead explores TikTok’s more nefarious aspects
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Women Filmmakers at Sundance: Don’t Touch My Abortion
Sundance 2022: the films are reminding us what it was like when women did not have the right to choose
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‘Call Jane’ Stars Elizabeth Banks, Sigourney Weaver Examine Chicago’s Underground Abortion Service Pre-Roe v. Wade (Video)
Sundance 2022: As women’s liberty to choose faces demise, Phyllis Nagy’s drama looks at the secret group that provided abortions before they were legalized
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How ‘Emergency’ Cast Turned Immediate Chemistry Into a Friendship-Fueled Thriller (Video)
Sundance 2022: Film follows three college students of color struggling to figure out what to do when they find a white girl passed out in their apartment
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‘Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul’ Film Review: Regina Hall Elevates Satirical Evangelical Mockumentary
Sundance 2022: The targets of writer-director Adamma Ebo’s comedy aren’t always clear, but Hall’s performance consistently hits the bullseye
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National Geographic Acquires Rights to Sundance Volcano Doc ‘Fire of Love’
Sundance 2022: Sara Dosa’s documentary tells the tale of married volcanologists Katia and Maurice Krafft, who filmed landmark footage of volcanic eruptions
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‘Resurrection’ Film Review: Rebecca Hall Keeps a Firm Grasp on Unsettling Familial Horror
Sundance 2022: Writer-director Andrew Semans’ script takes a big narrative swing, but Hall, Tim Roth and Grace Kaufman make it all seem believable
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‘Sharp Stick’ Film Review: Lena Dunham’s First Feature in a Decade Feels Overly Familiar
Sundance 2022: She’s left New York City behind for Malibu, but the writer-director seems to be stuck in her comfort zone
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‘Jihad Rehab’ Film Review: Firefighter-Turned-Filmmaker’s Doc Questions Our Beliefs About Terrorists
Sundance 2022: Given access to a program designed to give former Gitmo detainees a second chance, Meg Smaker is privy to viewpoints Americans rarely hear
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‘Framing Agnes’ Film Review: Trans Artists and Academics Bring History into the Present
Sundance 2022: Director Chase Joynt (“No Ordinary Man”) uses vintage gender-study interviews as a prism through which to view modern transgender lives
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How Thandiwe Newton Used Her Own Experience to Shape Her ‘God’s Country’ Performance (Video)
Sundance 2022: ”I felt that I had experienced those same frustrations daily,“ Newton tells TheWrap’s Brian Welk
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‘2nd Chance’ Film Review: Ramin Bahrani Profiles a Bulletproof-Vest Entrepreneur
Sundance 2022: In this documentary, the filmmaker tries to publish the truth, not the legend, of inventor Richard Davis
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How Oscar De La Hoya Convinced Eva Longoria Bastón to Direct ‘La Guerra Civil’ (Video)
Sundance 2022: ”Hey, there’s this 25th anniversary of this epic fight that happened. We want to do a documentary about it. You want to do it?“ De La Hoya told Longoria Bastón
