Brendan Walsh

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Sundance 2012: Celeste and Jesse Forever - Movie Review

Published January 23rd, 2012 by Brendan Walsh

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The Sundance Film Festival is full of emotional relationship dramadies, but so many of them feel like writers and directors working out their emotional issues from their own relationships. By using their movies as a cathartic opportunity to whine about their breakups, they miss the chance to...

Sundance 2012: The Raid - Movie Review

Published January 22nd, 2012 by Brendan Walsh

With over a week remaining, it may be a bit early to say so, but it's entirely possible that Gareth Huw Evans' The Raid is the single coolest film screening at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival. This high octane action flick packs a wallop that doesn't let up, blow...

Sundance 2012: Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie - Movie Review

Published January 21st, 2012 by Brendan Walsh

There are plenty of strange films shown at the Sundance Film Festival each year, but Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie has got to be one of the strangest. Often, when a TV show with a die hard cult following is given a shot at the big screen, the results can...

Sundance 2012: Hello I Must Be Going - Movie Review

Published January 20th, 2012 by Brendan Walsh

Thursday marked the beginning of 2012's Sundance Film Festival, with a small handful of premiers that will eventually ramp up to the deluge of screenings and events in the coming days. Among the films that premiered was Todd Luiso's Hello, I Must Be Going,...