From ‘In the Summers’ to ‘Love Lies Bleeding’: A Look At Faves From Sundance 2024

A couple of things about this year’s Sundance Film Festival… First off, shout out to Eugene Hernandez on being thee man in charge. The newly minted Director and Head of Public Programming​ headed the 40th edition of the Park City fest. Secondly, this year’s fest was...

Smells Like Teen Spirit: Oscar-nominated Sean Wang Talks Hyper-Specificity of Coming-Of-Age Sundance Winner ‘Dìdi (弟弟)’ and the Era of MySpace Top 8

It's January 19, 2024, in Park City, Utah. It's the Sundance Film Festival. It's seven hours before the world premiere of Sean Wang's feature directorial, Dìdi (弟弟). In four days, Wang's short Nai Nai & Wài Pó will be nominated for an Oscar for Best Documentary...

Reneé Rapp and Auliʻi Cravalho Save ‘Mean Girls’ Movie Musical From Being a Carbon Copy Mess

The Mean Girls movie musical is out today and it is… fine. It’s been 20 years since the original; 6 years since the musical opened on Broadway; 22 years since Rosalind Wiseman’s Queen Bees and Wannabes (the book on which it was based) was released; and 13 years since...