“Does it get more Sundance than this?” Eugene Hernandez, the festival’s director, said at the opening night premiere of “Twinless,” which was being unveiled Thursday at the Eccles, Park City’s biggest venue. But the evening didn’t go off without a hitch. Shortly after Hernandez left the stage, a sizzle reel promoting the festivals nonprofit arm […...

Our heads and hearts are coming into alignment. During the emotional Moon's collaboration with transformational Pluto, internal transformations lead to external elevation in a big way. As the Moon then supports the confident Sun, these changes harmonize our minds and souls, providing us with the clarity that we need to maintain them going forward. That being said, when the Moon opposes expansive J...

In writer, director and actor James Sweeney’s sophomore feature, he navigates loneliness, anxiety, depression and other common millennial pastimes through an equally comedic and heartfelt arc… complete with a few “WTF” moments. Twinless stars Dylan O’Brien as Roman, a young man grieving the loss of his late twin brother Rocky. At a twin bereavement support […]

Sundance is about the diamonds in the rough, and the surprises, and James Sweeney sophomore directing effort, which he stars in opposite Dylan O’Brien won the Eccles audience over on night one of the Park City festival’s 2025 edition. Sweeney billed the movie as a bit “DePalma and grief drama,” the story about a young […]

Four years ago, Oscar winner Marlee Matlin experienced the magic of a Sundance premiere virtually when the heartfelt indie CODA made its debut at the fest (it then sold for $25 million to Apple on the way to winning the Oscar for best picture). But this year, Matlin gets to enjoy Sundance in-person with the […]

EXCLUSIVE:John Lithgow, who played Winston Churchill inThe Crownand scores of major roles on stage and screen, ishaving the timeof his long life. He has a hit play on the London stage transferring into the West End in April — and to Broadway in 2026 — and now hes starring alongside Olivia Colman in the Sundance […]

"Its more than Sunday workshop.This is what a church does," said the Rev. Dr. Larry E. Campbell.

LOWELL Jayden Correia pulled no punches Thursday night. The Lowell boxer hung tough, but lost a 4-1 split decision to Dorchester’s Ali Ahmad Frootan in a 143-pound bout at the 78th New England Golden Gloves at the Lowell Memorial Auditorium. Presented by Lowell Sun Charities, the nine-week boxing tourney jetted into week three with […]

While the Sundance Film Festival mulls a big move for 2027, the 2025 is under way. The event’s 41st edition kicked off January 23 in Utah, and you can look below for all of Deadline’s reviews from the fest so far. Sundance founder Robert Redford promised that audiences “can expect a 2025 program that showcases varied and vibrant filmmaking […]

Premiering at the Sundance Film Festival just days after Trump clarified his Make America Great Again agenda, Sophie Hydes Jimpa is a film about progress, not going back. Inspired by lessons of living with an activist gay father (John Lithgows richest role since The World According to Garp) and a nonbinary child (Aud Mason-Hyde), the […]

The first time Ahmir Questlove Thompson had a film at the Sundance Film Festival, The Roots co-founder never got to share it with a live audience due to the Covid lockdown that saw the 2021 gathering go virtual only. Tonight, with the 9:30 p.m. MT premiere of Sly Lives! (aka The Burden of Black Genius) […]

It’s no secret that corporations like Netflix, Amazon, and Apple have lost their appetite for current event documentaries that tackle politics. The good old days when streamers shelled out seven figures for docus about polarizing politicians like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (Knock Down the House), and eye-opening mock-government teen conferences (Boys State”) after their Sundance...

Director and co-writer (with Matthew Cormack) Sophie Hyde takes inspiration from her own life as daughter of a gay man and mother of a trans nonbinary teenager to tell the moving story of an Australian family on a visit to Amsterdam to spend time with the father and grandfather known affectionately as Jimpa. Hyde most […]

Hollywood is heading up the mountain for what’s possibly one of the final Sundance Film Festivals to be held in the posh ski-resort town of Park City. It’s a place that’s hosted its fair share of all-night bidding wars, where films ranging from “Reservoir Dogs” and “Napoleon Dynamite” to “Brooklyn” and “The Big Sick” landed […...

In the moving Sundance drama Omaha, the bedsheets are still warm when the life of a family is thrown into disarray on the morning they are mandated to vacate their home. The mothers passing and the 2008 financial collapse contributed to the precariousness thats put them in this predicament. Few belongings will accompany them on […]

Patrick Mahomes and Josh Allen will face each other on Sunday as both quarterbacks are tied to receive the Super Bowl MVP award.

Kicking off the Sundance Film Festival dramatic competition this year is Omaha, an increasingly bleak road trip with a recently widowed father, his two kids and their dog. Set against the 2008 financial crisis, Omaha begins with a dad (John Magaro) facing foreclosure on his house after losing what appears to be everything professionally as […]

French filmmaker Nicolas Philibert will be awarded the honorary Golden Alexander for his contribution to cinema at the 27th Thessaloniki Intl. Documentary Festival, which runs March 6-16. The festival will also host a tribute to the work of the American filmmaker Lauren Greenfield. Philibert, who “dares to permeate the innermost depths of the human psyche,” […]