Ten Most Recent Films Watched: A Violent Reaction to the Sundance Movies Overload — from Films Gone Wild

A Violent Reaction to the Sundance Movies Overload

So, the fact of the matter is that as much as I love independent film and celebrate it and would almost always choose it over studio fare, I still have a routine “violent reaction” to having overloaded on the Sundance/Slamdance stuff by going directly to movie comfort food.

That means a by the numbers zombie movie, a doc of the National Lampoon, Tom Cruise and Matt Damon action fare, and an Academy screener for THE EDGE OF SEVENTEEN which I got Festworks Editor-in-Chief Rose Kuo to watch (while I was staying with her family in NYC this past weekend) by leading her to believe it was up for a writing award at the Oscars.

A few people you may recognize from the National Lampoon documentary.
A few people you may recognize from the National Lampoon documentary.


Guilty pleasures all. Also, not listed is a binge watch of “The People vs O.J. Simpson” series since it arrived on Netflix, and half-way through the “Santa Clarita Diet” as well. And now we are heading into Dallas International Film Festival prep and next week’s Oxford Film Festival. Little wonder that I rarely see a theatrical release movie in an actual movie theater (unless it’s playing at a fest) any longer…

THE EDGE OF SEVENTEEN
THE EDGE OF SEVENTEEN
  1. EVOLUTION (DIR: Lucile Hadzihalilovic) – VOD
  2. QUALITY PROBLEMS (DIRS: Brooke Purdy, Doug Purdy) – screening link
  3. THE VOID (DIRS: Jeremy Gllespie, Steve Kostanski) – screening link
  4. JASON BOURNE (DIR: Paul Greengrass) – VOD
  5. THE EDGE OF SEVENTEEN (DIR: Kelly Fremon Craig) Academy screener
  6. JACK REACHER: NEVER GO BACK (DIR: Edward Zwick) – VOD
  7. DRUNK STONED BRILLIANT DEAD: THE STORY OF NATIONAL LAMPOON (DIR: Douglas Tirola) – VOD
  8. THE REZORT (DIR: Steve Barker) – VOD
  9. BUSHWICK (DIRS: Cary Murnion, Jonathan Milott) – Sundance
  10. PATTI CAKE$ (DIR: Geremy Jasper) – Sundance
BUSHWICK
BUSHWICK

Ten Most Recent Films Watched: A Violent Reaction to the Sundance Movies Overload — from Films Gone Wild