Review: A Stacked Cast Elevates Family Squares Above Its Zoom-Filmed Family Meetings
Another example of pure pandemic cinema is this week’s release of Family Squares, a lightweight but often quite funny work…
Interview: Filmmaker Fran Kranz on Making Mass and the Most Honorable, Important Thing People Can Do Right Now
One of the most talked-about films of this year’s Sundance Film Festival was Mass, the writing/directing debut of actor Fran…
Interview: Martha Plimpton on Making Mass, the Rhythm of the Script, and Midwestern Pragmatism
We continue a series of interviews for one of the most talked about films of this year’s Sundance Film Festival:…
Interview: Ann Dowd on Making Mass and What She Learned from Years Working in Chicago Theater
One of the most talked-about films of this year’s Sundance Film Festival was the writing/directing debut of actor Fran Kranz,…
Review: Parents Reckon with Unthinkable Tragedy in Emotional, Challenging School Shooting Drama Mass
Known primarily as an actor who pops up in a lot of Joss Whedon TV and film properties, Fran Kranz…
Review: A Modern Western, Cowboys Puts Family Dynamics to the Test
Set in small-town Montana, Cowboys, the latest from writer/director Anna Kerrigan (Five Days Gone), concerns a family in crisis largely…
Dispatch: Award Winners and A Few More Films as Sundance Film Festival Wraps
The Sundance Film Festival wrapped last week, and even though it was entirely virtual this year, it turns out it…
