Sundance Film Festival
Judd Apatow adds some colour to his comedic palette
Comedy king Judd Apatow has yet to cast a person of colour in a lead role. That’s why his next film, ‘The Big Sick’, could be a big deal.
With ‘Rumble’ and ‘Rise’, docs are reaffirming the fight for Indigenous rights
‘Rumble’ and ‘Rise’, a pair of Canadian documentaries, deliver an urgent tag-team message about Indigenous rights and activism
In the shadow of Mickey Mouse
Even the director doubted the film he secretly made at Disney World would get this far
Four things you need to know about the Sundance Film Festival
… and one thing about Sarah Polley
Here come the Lions
Chris Morris’s Four Lions has debuted to uneasy but strong reviews at the Sundance Film Festival. It may be the most eagerly awaited English-language comic project on the planet. Morris is a unique figure—a secretive, almost reclusive English radio and TV writer who occasionally emerges from hiding to spray vitriol at the Establishment and, generally, the self-satisfied and delusional. His series The Day Today and Brass Eye cannot be watched without the viewer being astonished that such jokes and surreal images ever made it to air. Even to think of them makes one redden in shame for the masses of herd-followers who think of Conan O’Brien as hip and transgressive.
The real reason to see ‘Precious’
Mo’Nique creates one of the most ferocious female villains ever to grace the screen