sundance 2021

Taming the Garden

By Alan Ng | September 2022

NOW IN THEATERS! Do yourself a favor and find a large screen and see Salomé Jashi’s Taming the Garden. The story behind…

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NOW IN THEATERS! Do yourself a favor and find a large screen and see Salomé Jashi's Taming the Garden. The story behind "the garden" is pretty incredible...

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NEW TO DVD! A must-see, Strawberry Mansion is a romantic, circuitous love letter to the absurd. Set in the not-too-distant future, we follow dream tax...

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NEW TO THEATERS! I had to sit with Ninja Thyberg's debut Pleasure for a while before I could write about it. First of all, it just cuts through you with...

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NEW TO THEATERS! The framework for Kate Tsang’s Marvelous and the Black Hole is entirely familiar, exploring territory many films have dealt with...

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NEW TO THEATERS! As a film critic and journalist, the only real occupational hazards I encounter are mad filmmakers, actors with injured pride, and,...

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NEW TO THEATERS! Mother Schmuckers falls squarely in the WTF category and will find a home at midnight screenings across the world. It's one of those...

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NEW TO HULU! Ailey chronicles the life of prolific dance pioneer Alvin Ailey. Told through flashes between archived footage, interviews, and modern video...

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NEW TO THEATERS! The beauty of Clint Bentley's equine drama Jockey resides in the world that it captures to glean universal truths. The film opens at dawn...

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NEW TO HULU! Cryptids are the stuff of myth—gorgons, centaurs, mermaids, chupacabras, yetis, etc. In writer/director Dash Shaw's Cryptozoo, all these...

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NEW TO HULU! First Date had me as soon as I met its lead actor, Tyson Brown, who plays Mike. Mike is a sweet young man in high school who wants to take...

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