‘GEN_’ Review: A Compassionate Portrait of an Italian Doctor Treating Trans Patients and Women Trying to Conceive

Admin11 months ago06 mins

In Italian director Gianluca Matarrese’s compassionate fly-on-the-wall documentary, GEN_, we’re introduced to a doctor specializing in two fields that, to some people, may seem almost diametrically opposed. As a seasoned endocrinologist working at Milan’s Niguarda hospital, Dr. Maurizio Bini runs both a busy fertility clinic and a department practicing gender-affirming surgery and hormonal treatment for…

#‘Bubble & Squeak’ Review: Himesh Patel and Sarah Goldberg Star in a Contrived Marriage Fable

Admin1 year ago09 mins

In Evan Twohy’s twee debut feature Bubble & Squeak, a couple gets detained by police while honeymooning in an unnamed country. We meet Declan (Himesh Patel) and Delores (Sarah Goldberg) in an ascetic holding area, anxiously awaiting their interrogation. When Bkofl, an attending officer played by Steven Yeun (also a producer on the film), walks…

#‘André Is an Idiot’ Review: An Unexpectedly Funny and Poignant Documentary About Life, Cancer and Colonoscopies

Admin1 year ago010 mins

Were I to ask you to think of your ideal 88-minute PSA for colonoscopies, chances are you would have only two answers: Either “Huh?!?” or “That time Katie Couric got a colonoscopy on Today.” Thanks to Tony Benna’s new documentary, André Is an Idiot, there’s now a viable third possibility. André Is an Idiot The…

#Sundance Shocker: Second Film Pulled From Online Portal After Pirated Clips Surface Online

Admin1 year ago05 mins

Sundance suddenly has a piracy problem. James Sweeney’s Twinless, a Sundance Film Festival selection that emerged as a double winner after Friday’s awards ceremony, has been pulled from the fest’s online screening portal after clips surfaced on social media platforms. The move came just hours after Isabel Castro’s documentary about late superstar Selena Quintanilla, Selena…

#‘The Ballad of Wallis Island’ Review: Carey Mulligan Adds Grace Notes but Tom Basden and Tim Key Provide the Melody to This Minor-Key Charmer

Admin1 year ago016 mins

Nostalgia and the ache of moving on permeate every frame of The Ballad of Wallis Island, lending an air of precious sentimentality that threatens to slide into the saccharine. But James Griffiths’ tender comedy-drama also has a ton of heart, a generosity of spirit and an ultimately disarming sweetness that make it sneak up on…

#‘Last Days’ Review: Justin Lin Returns to Indies With a Solid Drama About a Misguided Missionary

Admin1 year ago08 mins

It turns out that having “creative differences” with a major Hollywood studio and Vin Diesel can do wonders for your artistic soul. Filmmaker Justin Lin got on a fast track to the big time when his low-budget independent feature Better Luck Tomorrow garnered raves upon its 2002 premiere at the Sundance Film Festival. It launched…

#‘Sorry, Baby’ Review: Eva Victor’s Feature Debut Is a Frank, Funny and Tender Spin on the Female ‘Traumedy’

Admin1 year ago013 mins

If the name Eva Victor is unfamiliar to you, it may not be for long. A winning, at times strikingly strong big-screen debut, Sorry, Baby positions the writer/director/star as a triple threat, with a specific, fully formed voice blending irony and earnestness to beguiling effect. Despite some familiar U.S. indie beats (Sundance is Sundance), the…

#As He Awaits Release From Federal Prison, Leonard Peltier Is Still in Danger, Advocates Say

Admin1 year ago013 mins

There are happy endings. There are Hollywood endings. And then there is the ending to the new film Free Leonard Peltier. Peltier had been imprisoned for well over 45 years when David France and Jesse Short Bull decided to make a documentary about him. The Native American activist is serving two life sentences in federal…

#A Pulitzer-Winning War Photographer Allegedly Tried to Stop Screening of Sundance Doc About Him

Admin1 year ago016 mins

The retired Associated Press photographer Nick Ut, who is credited with taking the famous “Napalm Girl” photo in 1972, tried to stop Sundance from screening a movie that asserts the real photographer is not him but a little-known Vietnamese stringer, filmmakers told THR on Sunday. The Pulitzer-Prize winner’s lawyers recently sent a cease-and-desist letter to…

#‘Selena y Los Dinos’ Review: 30 Years After Her Death, the Mexican-American Icon Shines Bright in a Sweet but Overly Slick Doc Tribute

Admin1 year ago09 mins

It’s fun to see video of stars when they were children, when you can spot the adults they would become. Watch little Selena Quintanilla belt out “Feelings” in a home movie and you’ll find the same big voice, the same big smile and bubbly laugh, even the same bangs that fans would come to know…