Film Reviews
This year, I’m kicking off Sundance with one of their short film programs. Here are four films from the Short Film Program 2.
Scuba, the feature debut of writer-director Jacob Vaus, tells the story of two outsiders who find each other just when they need to.
At this year’s Sundance Film Festival, Wilson Kwong takes a look at The Ugly Stepsister and The Dating Game!
In the new comedy Not an Artist, we follow a group of artists taking the ultimate gamble to unlock their true potential, or perhaps lack of it.
Bye Bye Love stands on its own as one of the most vibrant and energetic films of the Japanese New Wave.
Aardman’s newest entry in the Wallace & Gromit series is here, and it’s a delightfully…
The Room Next Door, unfortunately for itself, says too much and yet nothing of substance.
Rocky’s focuses on complicated friendships and the joy we can still find in them, even if a tragedy forced us back together.
The best that can be said for Wolf Man is that, like its well-intentioned yet nevertheless obviously doomed protagonist, its heart is in the right place.
Martin Campbell’s name used to mean something in this town. The Dirty Angels director singlehandedly breathed…
Daruma, the newest feature from Alexander Yellen and Kelli McNeil-Yellen, is an inspiring example of why representation is so necessary.
I’ll be honest: As much as I love music, I’ve not been very aware of…
Oceans Are the Real Continents is a beautiful, bittersweet love letter to a place and a people that remain irrevocably intertwined even in separation.
From Ground Zero is essential viewing to gain a glimpse at life in Palestine beyond what the mainstream media chooses to convey to us.
Aly is a perfect example of a short film done right, a simple idea, executed with grace.