Zooey Deschanel is more than an adorable actress who told me she liked my sweater after I interviewered her a few days ago. Like that? It’s called subtlety. Yes, Ms. Deschanel is so much more. She can sing. She starred in my favorite movie at Sundance this year, “500 Days of Summer,̶...

Raw, blistering, harsh and compelling in the way that only a really good "prison film" can be, Nicolas Wining Refn's Bronson is a rather rough experience. Fortunately it's also very smart, dark, intelligent and disturbing, supported by a force-of-nature lead performance and a screenplay that focuses...

Filed under: Drama, Sundance, Theatrical Reviews, Sundance Reviews 2009 Raw, blistering, harsh and compelling in the way that only a really good "prison film" can be, Nicolas Wining Refn's Bronson is a rather rough experience. Fortunately it's also very smart, dark, intelligent and disturbing, suppo...

“Humpday” is the type of movie with a plot that intrigues you, actors that endear themselves to you — and a mind-numbing lack of focus that sucker punches you in the face repeatedly until you just want to give up and walk out. Here’s the breakdown: Two straight guys get loade...

Filed under: Comedy, Drama, Sundance, Theatrical Reviews, Sundance Reviews 2009 I'd heard a few unpleasant rumblings regarding the Sundance title Brief Interviews with Hideous Men , in addition to numerous opinions on how the source material (a collection of stories by the late David Foster Wallace)...

My admiration for the comic timing of the great Tea Leoni dates back to “Flirting with Disaster” so it pleases me to learn her new film debuting tonight at Sundance is a comedy and calls for her to talk fast and funny alongside the likes of Billy Bob Thorton. That it comes from the great...

Mike Tyson was one of boxing’s greatest champions before falling hard on the mat of life. Destitute and entangled in multiple brushes with the law, he suffered a downward spiral of such dramatic proportions that you’d think he was a movie character. Well, now we’ll have it both way...

Sunday night at Park City’s “Racquet Club” theater saw a different kind of game going down - a twisted, frequently hilarious, wholly original sports-fanatic flick called “Big Fan.” By the end of the screening, the reaction made it clear that much of the audience could a...

One of the star nominations for best foreign documentaries at this year's Sundance film festival is the much talked about Afghan Star. Afghan Star is the American Idol of Afghanistan. Just like the American version, it too seeks to make dreams real--but that's where the similarities stop. You won't ...

Saturday afternoon at the Library (one of the few venues at Sundance that really is a movie theater all year round) I was treated to a press screening of “The Killing Room,” by far the best movie I’ve seen so far. It’s not your typical “art house” film about gay c...