Sundance Film Festival: ‘Master’ Review

By: Amanda Guarragi In writer-director Mariama Diallo’s debut feature Master, she explores the flawed education system in the United States at an elite New England University. As she touches upon the racial inequality and white elitism prevalent at Ancaster, the university is also built on the site of a Salem-era gallows hill. Diallo combines the supernatural elements of the witch trials with the racial history … Continue reading Sundance Film Festival: ‘Master’ Review

Sundance Film Festival: ‘892’ Review

By: Amanda Guarragi There have been moments in everyone’s life where they have reached their breaking point. This one defining break usually happens when there is a string of smaller moments that everyone leaves to build up. Exactly how much injustice can people take until they snap? In the case of Brian Easley (John Boyega) a former U.S. Marine, who has been on disability for … Continue reading Sundance Film Festival: ‘892’ Review

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: ‘The Princess’ Review

By: Amanda Guarragi After decades of processing Princess Diana’s untimely death, she continues to evoke mystery, glamour, and the quintessential modern fairy tale gone wrong. As we all know, Diana was the People’s Princess. This documentary directed by Ed Perkins highlights the struggle within the castle and in front of the cameras. She was a woman whose very presence left the monarchy and the media … Continue reading Sundance Film Festival: ‘The Princess’ Review