Shorts: ‘Crisis Actor’ Shows That We Can’t Perform Our Way Through Life
There are two things that I couldn't help but connect in Lily Platt's unexpected, disarming short film, Crisis Actor. When ...
Tag: Sundance Film Festival
Sundance 2026 Recs Part 4: ‘The Friend’s House Is Here,’ ‘Union County,’ ‘One In A Million,’ ‘Lady,’ ‘Run Amok’
And still more outstanding Sundance films... The Friend’s House is Here U.S. Dramatic Competition, United States/Iran (Islamic Republic of). In ...
Sundance 2026 Recs Part 3: ‘Ha-chan, Shake Your Booty!,’How to Divorce During the War,’ ‘Hanging by a Wire,’ ‘Hot Water,’ ‘The Huntress’
More Great Cinema from Sundance. Ha-chan, Shake Your Booty! U.S. Dramatic Competition, United States. In Japanese, English, Spanish Ha-Chan, Shake ...
Sundance 2026 Recs Part 2: ‘Josephine,’ ‘Bedford Park,’ ‘The Incomer,’ ‘Carousel,’ ‘Broken English’
More outstanding Sundance films. Josephine U.S. Dramatic Competition, United States. In English Gemma Chan, Mason Reeves and Channing Tatum in ...
Sundance: Matthew Puccini’s ‘Callback’ Unearths Relationship Tensions
Would you be able to handle doing the same job as your partner? On one hand, you would speak the ...
Sundance 2026 Recs Part 1: ‘HOLD ONTO ME,’ ‘Tell Me Everything,’ ‘Shame And Money,’ ‘Frank & Louis,’ ‘Night Nurse’
Here is the first part of my take on some of the outstanding films at Sundance this year. HOLD ONTO ...
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Sundance 2026: Chat With ‘Tell Me Everything’ Filmmaker Moshe Rosenthal & Star Ido Tako [VIDEO]
World premiering at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival, Moshe Rosenthal’s second feature, Tell Me Everything, is set in the late ...
‘Plainclothes’ Finds Beguiling, Seductive Danger in Deeply Rooted Paranoia
The art of cruising has evolved with the creation of hook up and dating apps. Some would even argue that ...
![Sundance 2025: ‘Touch Me’ Star Lou Taylor Pucci Discusses His Crazy Character Creation [VIDEO]](https://thecontending.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Master-Headshot-retouched-350x250.jpg)
Sundance 2025: ‘Touch Me’ Star Lou Taylor Pucci Discusses His Crazy Character Creation [VIDEO]
In Addison Heimann’s deliciously insane second feature, Touch Me, Lou Taylor Pucci plays Brian, a buff, tracksuit wearing extraterrestrial-ish being, ...
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