Tag: Sundance

Chasing Summer (2026)

Within the last year or two, I was given (without much warning) the duty of helping to organize a 20th reunion for my High School graduating class (set for the fall of this year).

Honestly, it is somewhat low-key (we are all just meeting at a bar for now), but the interactions with my fellow grads of 2006 will indeed be a unique blend of fear and excitement (since I am one of those heading the whole thing, I doubt I can avoid people much when I am there). If it is anything like the reunions shown in Chasing Summer, it will be much more fear than excitement.

Tags 2026, Iliza Shlesinger, Josephine Decker, Megan Mullally, R, Rated R, Sundance, Sundance Film Festival, Tom Welling

4 Stars

DJ Ahmet (2025)

(This is the first of two films from this year’s Sundance Film Festival I got virtual tickets for.)

Am I alone in saying that the majority of what I learn about other cultures is from art?

Tags 2025, Agush Agushev, Arif Jakup, DJ Ahmet, Dora Akan Zlatanova, Feel Good, Georgi M. Unkovski, Macedonia, Naum Doksevski, Sundance, Sundance Film Festival

4 Stars

Suncoast (2024)

I was a Junior in High School when the Terri Schiavo case made headlines.

From what I remember, it was brought up in at least one of my classes as a potential debate topic, and it also was something I thought could hurt the film Million Dollar Baby at that year’s Oscars (it didn’t). Being what introduced the world (or at least me) to the term “euthanasia”, the whole impact of the ordeal seems to have been lost to time.