Interview by Paul Salfen Quibi, takes it's name from a shortened version of “quick bites” and CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg intends to change the way we watch content. It's designed for the mobile user, and each video is 10 minutes. The service will initially contain “Movies in Chapters," unscripted reality content and short-form documentaries, and a
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The One-Time Online Film Festival Will Showcase Titles from the 2020 SXSW Line-up Free on…
There’s fun at the screening and then there’s Zola fun at a screening. Based on…
It would be basically impossible to write anything about BLACK BEAR without giving away the…
Guest Writer: Jordan Brown Other people: they can be a real bummer. Especially if you’re painfully shy and awkward in any social interaction that doesn’t include your mother. This is Jeanne’s problem in Zoé Wittock’s debut feature Jumbo, a whimsical coming-of-age story about forbidden love – typical fodder you’ll find at Sundance, but with an
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Every year I see 30-40 movies at Sundance and I only get the chance to…
Review by Bears Rebecca Fonte Every year it becomes easier to publicly announce my love for Taylor Swift. My initial shock and surprise at the depth, musical complexity and pure pop perfection of her 2014 album ‘1989” has only been deepened by Tay-Tay’s open up her heart on “Reputation,” showing both sadness and rage. Netflix
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Review by Paul Salfen Assassin 33 A.D. might be one of the most perplexingly unique films to come along in quite some time. From director Jim Carroll, and based on his award-winning script, this is a sci-fi/action/drama/romance hybrid (complete with plenty of comedic elements) about a group of scientists that invent a time machine that
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Sundance is here again, let the snow begin! Or not, actually, because this year I…
INHERIT THE VIPER casts a lens on the opioid crisis through the eyes of a European, Swiss Director Anthony Jerjen. The film delivers a dark drama set in small-town Ohio (actually filmed in Alabama) which is made all the more poignant by the fact that situations depicted in the film are all-too pervasive in certain
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