What to Watch Coming Out of the 2022 Sundance Film Festival

(REVIEW) My first ever Sundance Film Festival was spent on a new couch. Having been moved entirely online just over two weeks before the festival’s Opening Night due to rising concerns about Omicron, I canceled my travel plans to Utah and set up my online schedule. The festival took place from January 20-30. I can’t say it was the way I imagined my experience would be, but it was likely for the best considering how many classes I would’ve missed and homework that would’ve gone ignored.

Opinion, CultureCaedmon FairFebruary 11, 2022caedmonfair, review, sundance, Secondary FeatureComment

‘Annette’ is Bound to be the Best Movie Musical of the Year!

Love, glamour, crime, bananas, farting and wooden babies! Leos Carax’s newest feature film, Annette, has it all. With music and a script by pop-rock duo Ron and Russell Mael — otherwise known as the band Sparks — and a return after nearly ten years from director Leos Carax (who also collaborated on the script with the Sparks brothers), Annette is one of the most unconventional movie musicals in a while— if not ever.

Opinion, CultureCaedmon FairAugust 19, 2021annette, film review, caedmonfair, Entertainment, Secondary FeatureComment

You Should See ‘Nine Days’ on the Off Chance That it Changes Your Life

Both because of its fascinating premise and initial reactions at the Sundance Film Festival in the early months of 2020, Edson Oda’s feature debut, Nine Days, is one of my favorite kinds of movies to watch. The general consensus at the festival from what now feels like a lifetime ago, either claimed that it is a masterpiece or that it is garbage. Opinions that fall in the middle are rare. You are taken by it or it takes you nowhere. It is captivating and beautiful, moving you in a way that only the best of art can or it simply isn’t.

Culture, OpinionCaedmon FairAugust 12, 2021ninedays, caedmonfair, film review, film, films, movies, movie review, opinion, cultureComment

James Gunn’s 'The Suicide Squad,' the “Best Comic Book Movie of the Year,” is Disappointing

Unlike the first movie, which had an attempted edginess that did more harm than good, Warner Bros. has allowed Gunn to make an R-rated comic book movie, and he certainly leans into this opportunity, making quite possibly the goriest comic book movie to date.

CultureCaedmon FairAugust 10, 2021caedmonfair, thesuicidesquad, film review, movie review, movie, movies, film, films, Opinion, Secondary FeatureComment