In the aftermath of “Brat Summer” and her three acting roles out of Sundance, it’s safe to say that this is the generation of Charli xcx! The pop star and cinephile will make her fourth acting appearance of the year […]
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Director David Shadrack Smith just premiered his feature-documentary debut, Public Access, at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival where I reviewed it. The film showcases all the wild, vibrant, and very weird content that proliferated on New York City’s Manhattan Cable […]
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The Disciple is a documentary about the creation of Once Upon a Time in Shaolin, the Wu-Tang Clan album famously pressed as a single copy and sold at auction for $2 million in 2015—the most expensive piece of recorded music […]
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Visar Morina was born in Pristina, Kosovo in 1979, when the region was still part of Yugoslavia. At 15, his family fled as refugees during the turmoil that would eventually lead to the Kosovo War, and he has lived in […]
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Everybody to Kenmure Street (which I reviewed here), from director Felipe Bustos Sierra (Nae Pasaran), just premiered at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival. The documentary highlights a 2021 protest in Glasgow, Scotland, over a dawn raid to kidnap two immigrant […]
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Josephine is the sensation of the 2026 Sundance Film Festival. Writer-director Beth de Araújo’s sophomore feature won both the U.S. Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award in the U.S. Dramatic Competition—a rare double that places the film in the company […]
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After a huge festival run last year that included Sundance, SXSW, and TIFF, cult Canadian actress and filmmaker Grace Glowicki’s Frankensteinian comedy Dead Lover is set to arrive in theaters stateside this spring. Glowicki, known for her roles in Strawberry […]
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(Check out Jonathan Marlow’s Nadja movie review. Michael Almereyda’s 1984 vampire film has been given the 4k restoration treatment and is in theaters now. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) Our season of the vampires. Predisposed to […]
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(The 2026 Sundance Film Festival kicked off Thursday, January 22 and ran through Sunday, February 1 for, sadly the last time, in and around Park City, Utah. Check out Chris Reed’s Public Access movie review, fresh from the fest. Seen it? Join […]
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Stephanie Ahn is a Korean American filmmaker who came to the United States at age two. She worked as an editor on films including Debra Granik’s Winter’s Bone (2010) and Israel Horovitz’s My Old Lady (2014) before setting out to […]
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