Sundance HK
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A hilarious high school comedy about life in South Central Los Angeles, Dope is a loving callback to such films of the 90s, particularly Boyz N The Hood, Friday, House… Read More
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Jennifer Phang’s ambitious sci-fi drama presents some intriguing ideas about identity and sacrifice in a uniquely female context, but she invests her budget into the wrong elements, and is unable… Read More
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The debut feature from Beijing-born Chloe Zhao focuses on the unlikely subject matter of adolescent Lakota indians in South Dakota. Read my review Read More
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The events that went down at Jordan Hall in August 1971 have been recounted numerous times and inspired at least two films already – Oliver Hirschbiegel’s excellent Das Experiment (2001)… Read More
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The debut feature from Josh Mond, producer of Simon Killer and Martha Marcy May Marlene, is a tough coming-of-age tale featuring a couple of top-notch showboating performances. Read my review Read More
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Pretty straight-forward break-up rom-com about a father of twins struggling to get over a separation. His partner, played by Stephanie Allynne, screws him royally throughout the film, yet is never… Read More
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It was funny watching this immediately after The Wolfpack, as both deal with youngsters expressing themselves through heavily influenced cinematic rip-offs, and also the notion of overbearing parenting. Read my… Read More
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The crazy story of seven siblings confined to their lower-east-side apartment for more than a decade is both troubling yet also amusing, as they live vicariously through their love of… Read More
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There is a region in Arizona, close to the border that has unofficially been ceded to the Mexican drug cartels. The military is unwilling to defend it, and the local… Read More
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I must confess to having next to no exposure to the work of American author David Foster Wallace prior to seeing this film, which is especially confounding since his magnum… Read More
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Probably my most anticipated film of this year’s line-up was also the first I watched. Robert Eggers’ gothic horror film The Witch is the story of a British family of… Read More
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