Slamdance ’17 Movie Review: Dave Made a Maze

Bill Watterson’s Dave Made a Maze is a film that leaves you grasping for points of comparison. How to describe it? A Murakami Merrie Melody? A Jim Henson film written by Philip K. Dick? Jorge Luis Borges presents Pee-wee’s Playhouse?…

Slamdance ’17 Movie Review: Hotel Coolgardie

To read more coverage of Slamdance 2017, go here.  Pete Gleeson’s Hotel Coolgardie is a frequently nightmarish, occasionally heartbreaking documentary about Lina and Steph, two Finnish backpackers stranded in Australia who sign on as the resident barmaids in Coolgardie—a tiny…

Slamdance ’17 Movie Review: Withdrawn

To read more coverage of Slamdance 2017, go here.  Never before have I seen a film that more closely captures the mindset, emotions, and speech patterns of millennials than Adrian Murray’s Withdrawn. Tall praise, but not undeserved. Working from a…

Slamdance ’17 Movie Review: Kuro

Joji Koyama and Tujiko Noriko’s Kuro isn’t just a movie; it’s a mystery, a mood, an intangible atmosphere of alien dread and ethereal beauty. You don’t just watch it; you give yourself over to it so it can infect your…