Sundance Film Festival: ‘Fire of Love’ Review

By: Amanda Guarragi What do love and volcanoes have in common? Katia and Maurice Krafft. If you have never heard about these two lovely souls, director Sara Dosa brings them to the screen through their archive footage. For two decades, the daring French volcanologists were seduced by the thrill and danger of this elemental triangle. Everything that we have learned about volcanoes doesn’t even begin … Continue reading Sundance Film Festival: ‘Fire of Love’ Review

Sundance Film Festival: ‘After Yang’ Review

By: Amanda Guarragi As technology advances, humans grow more attached and forget what life can be like without it. As each year passes, we get more wrapped up in the social aspect of technology and forget to make connections in person. Maybe the connections we make online have more of an emotional depth because they are not physically present in your life, thus causing an … Continue reading Sundance Film Festival: ‘After Yang’ Review

Sundance Film Festival: ‘FRESH’ Review

By: Amanda Guarragi In the past decade, we’ve seen a shift in the conventions of dating. We all think to ourselves, “Where has the romance gone?” The majority of single people are constantly going through the same cycle on dating apps and it can be so exhausting. It’s not about the connection anymore; it’s about checking all the boxes based on a couple of text … Continue reading Sundance Film Festival: ‘FRESH’ Review

Sundance Film Festival: ‘When You Finish Saving The World’ Review

By: Amanda Guarragi In Jesse Eisenberg’s directorial debut, When You Finish Saving The World, he explores the idea of what it truly means to help others. As we know, there are many different ways to help others, but what people fail to realize is the intention the olive branch stems from. Is there genuine compassion to help others, or is there an ulterior motive for … Continue reading Sundance Film Festival: ‘When You Finish Saving The World’ Review

‘The Royal Treatment’ Review

By: Amanda Guarragi We would all love to fall in love with royalty and be whisked away to a new country. Since that can’t happen to all of us, the new Netflix film, The Royal Treatment will make you believe in fairytales again. When New York hairdresser Izzy (Laura Marano) seizes the chance to work at the wedding of a charming Prince Thomas(Mena Massoud), sparks … Continue reading ‘The Royal Treatment’ Review