Sundance 2016
- NewsJordan Zakarin
Nate Parker on Sundance Hit 'The Birth of a Nation': 'It's a Massive Blow to White Supremacy'
Nate Parker was pumped. The writer-director-actor had just finished the Q&A for the final Sundance Film Festival screening of his breakout debut feature The Birth of a Nation, but he wasn’t nearly ready to stop talking about the movie that had taken the festival by storm. Parker wrote, directed and stars in the biopic of Nat Turner, a preacher and slave who, in 1831, led a famed slave rebellion in Virginia.
- NewsJordan Zakarin
Our Favorite Movies From Sundance 2016
Sure, there are plenty of high-profile films from award-winning filmmakers at the Sundance Film Festival, but of the great joys of the indie mecca is the opportunity for discovery. Every year, little films from semi-anonymous directors capture the imaginations of audiences and journalists piled into retrofitted theaters in Park City, Utah. With a title aimed squarely at D.W. Griffith’s racist, 1915 celebration of white supremacy, Nation is a raw, visceral depiction of the life of Nat Turner (P
- NewsKevin Polowy
Sundance Report: Wyatt Cenac on New Indie 'Jacqueline,' #OscarsSoWhite, and Jon Stewart Reunion
After Wyatt Cenac left The Daily Show With Jon Stewart in 2012, viewers likely assumed the fan favorite would start popping up in Hollywood comedies à la fellow alums Rob Riggle and Kristen Schaal, or perhaps even headlining films like Steve Carell and Ed Helms. Written and directed by Bernardo Britto (whose 2014 Sundance-winning short Yearbook is essential viewing), Jacqueline is an inspired mockumentary-style indie starring Cenac as an unnamed “director” contacted by the titular low-level Fre
- NewsKevin Polowy
'Eddie the Eagle' Surprises at Sundance, Where Hugh Jackman Endorses Taron Egerton for Han Solo Role
Eddie “The Eagle” Edwards is not a household name in the U.S. — and frankly, said Hugh Jackman, that’s the reason why a biopic about the British Olympian was kicking around Hollywood for 15 years before it got made. Jackman and friends are hoping that changes with the inspirational new sports drama Eddie the Eagle, which premiered to cheers last night as the surprise, unofficial screening at the Sundance Film Festival. The film stars Kingsman breakout Taron Egerton as Edwards, who, despite his
- NewsKerrie Mitchell
Sundance Report: 'Southside With You' Reimagines the Obamas' Delightful First Date
A charming night out with a future first couple
- NewsKevin Polowy
Hugh Jackman on Ryan Reynolds's Dis: Wolverine Would Beat Deadpool '100 Percent'
Deadpool has been incessantly shooting off his trap — as Deadpool is wont to do — over the past few weeks in the ramp up to his titular movie, out Feb. 12. Among the most notable targets of Ryan Reynolds’s mouthy alter ego: Wolverine. Specifically, the 2009 movie X-Men Origins: Wolverine, where the Marvel mercernary made his first big-screen appearance alongside Hugh Jackman’s hirsute hero.
- NewsJordan Zakarin
Sundance Report: Kenneth Lonergan Goes Deep on ‘Manchester by the Sea’ and Getting Over ‘Margaret’
The Oscar-nominated filmmaker and playwright Kenneth Lonergan has developed over the past two decades a reputation as a bit of a quiet genius who prefers to let his work do the talking. Lonergan was visibly relieved by the quick and lucrative resolution this time, but in speaking with Yahoo Movies, he hadn’t yet processed the technological or business implications of selling to a big streaming platform.
