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Bite-sized Sundance 2024 Reviews

A selection of Sundance 2024’s independent film offerings, from queer neo-noir Ponyboi, to the experimental AI-structured Eno, to Sasquatch Sunset’s Sasquatch pee.

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Psychotronic Drive-In #1

For the inaugural edition of Psychotronic Drive-In, we’re covering two Spanish films released in 1973: Attack of the Blind Dead and The Vampires’ Night Orgy. Both are spectacular examples of what makes Spain’s horror output in the 1960s and 1970s so compelling and unique.

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Greta Gerwig grapples with filmmaking and womanhood under capitalism in Barbie

A Mattel-funded Barbie was never going to end patriarchy, and it would be unrealistic to think it ever could. However, Gerwig still offers a salient, at times genuine look at modern girlhood devoid of the “girlboss” narrative the film was originally saddled with, and it’s fun. Remember girlish fun? It’s been a while since girl-centric fun was at the forefront of a big studio feature. 

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