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"Everything Everywhere All At Once" wins 10 awards, including Best Picture
At the annual meeting of the Utah Film Critics Association, Everything Everywhere All At Once took Best Picture and dominated the voting with 10 total wins.
New music from future.exboyfriend and Cera Gibson; Kilby Block Party
future.exboyfriend: new track “Hazy”
Beloved DIY electro-pop group future.exboyfriend released their latest single this week, “Hazy.” Whether you’re feeling hazy because of that lovely winter smog, heinous seasonal allergies, or any of the myriad of winter sicknesses going around; this is a track you’ll want to hear.
Emancipation, Empire of Light, All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, White Noise and more
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed ***1/2
Director Laura Poitras takes a unique two-pronged approach to profiling the life of artist/activist Nan Goldin; it isn’t until the end until it’s clear how effectively those prongs work in harmony. In part, it’s a somewhat conventional bio-doc, tracing back to Goldin’s dysfunctional-family childhood and through her interaction with the 1970s/1980s queer communities of Boston and New York that shaped the nature of her anthropological photographic art.
Violent Night, Darby and the Dead, The Inspection and more
Darby and the Dead **
A hybrid of The Sixth Sense and Mean Girls sounds just weird enough to work—which this story kind of does, and kind of doesn’t. It focuses on Darby Harper (Riele Downs), a Southern California high school junior who returned from a near-death experience that took her mother’s life with the ability to see and communicate with dead people.