The romantic thriller drama, directed by Carmen Emmi and starring Russell Tovey and Tom Blyth, premiered at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival, Jan. 26, 2025.
Set in 1990s, the film’s logline says: “A promising undercover officer assigned to lure and arrest gay men defies orders when he falls in love with a target.”
See photos from the premiere below.
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Bob Trevino Likes It” marks the feature debut for writer and director Tracie Laymon, and is inspired by Laymon’s life.
The comedy drama follows a woman looking for her long-lost father and stars Barbie Ferreira and John Leguizamo. The synopsis reads: A people-pleasing young woman is involuntarily estranged from her narcissistic father and unexpectedly befriends a childless man with the same name as her father on the internet.
The film also star French Stewart, Lauren Spencer, Rachel Bay Jones.
Roadside Attractions has this slated for March 21. Check out the Bob Trevino Likes It trailer below”.
Directed and written by Alireza Khatami, “The Things You Kill” stars Ekin Koç, Erkan Kolçak Köstendil, and Hazar Ergüçlü.
Khatami’s third feature is premiering at this year’s Sundance Film Festival in the World Cinema Dramatic competition, and is considered one of the year’s best entries.
The film follows Ali, a university professor who, haunted by the suspicious death of his ailing mother, coerces his enigmatic gardener to execute a cold-blooded act of vengeance. As long-buried family secrets resurface, the police tighten their noose, and doubts begin eroding his conscience. Ali has no choice but to look into the abyss of his own soul.
Watch the intense trailer for “The Things You Kill” below:
Directed by Seth Scriver and Peter Scriver, the Canadian animated documentary film premiered at 2025 Sundance Film Festival at the Egyptian Theatre, Saturday Jan 25, 2025
The film’s logline says: Through a series of vignettes – some tragic, some funny, all a little bizarre – this animated documentary explores the complex bond between two half brothers, one indigenous, one white, spanning bustling 1980s Toronto to the present day isolated First Nations community of Shamattawa.
Endless Cookie will screen on Jan. 26, Jan. 31 and Feb. 2 in Park City and on Jan. 28 in Salt Lake City, and will be available online from Jan. 30-Feb. 2.
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Director Emilie Blichfeldt
2025 comedy horror film “The Ugly Stepsister” premiered on Thurs, Jan 23, 2025, day one of the 2025 Sundance Film Festival.
Co-written and directed by Emilie Blichfeldt in her directorial debut, the film reimagines the Cinderella fairytale.
The film’s synopsis says: “In a fairy-tale kingdom where beauty is a brutal business, Elvira battles to compete with her incredibly beautiful stepsister, and she will go to any length to catch the prince’s eye.”
Leading to its premiere, the “tongue-in-cheek body horror” has been one of the festival’s buzziest titles.
The film’s cast includes Lea Myren, Thea Sofie Loch Næss, Ane Dahl Torp, Flo Fagerli, Isac Calmroth, and Malte Gårdinger.
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The Carey Mulligan starrer is set to premiere at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival, before it hits select US theaters.
The film tells the of Charles, an eccentric lottery winner who lives alone on a remote island and dreams of getting his favorite musicians, Mortimer-McGwyer back together, says the official synopsis.
“His fantasy quickly turns into reality when the bandmates and former lovers accept his invitation to play a private show at his home on Wallis Island. Old tensions resurface as Charles tries desperately to salvage his dream gig.”
Carey Mulligan, Tom Basden, Tim Key, Sian Clifford, Akemnji Ndifornyen
“The Ballad of Wallis Island” is set to premiere on March 28 in limited theaters. Check out the trailer below.
Psychological horror film “Rabbit Trap” premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on Jan 24, 2025 in the Midnight section, with producer Elijah Wood, writer-director Bryn Chainey and cast and crew in attendance.
Logline says: “When a musician and her husband move to a remote house in Wales, the music they make disturbs local ancient folk magic, bringing a nameless child to their door who is intent on infiltrating their lives.”
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Subject Matter announced their first grants of 2025 today, awarding $25,000 to Kim A. Snyder’s film The Librarians which will world premiere in the Premieres category at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival. In addition, a $25,000 grant will go to PEN America, a 103-year-old writers’ organization that defends free expression.
As an unprecedented wave of book banning is sparked in Texas, Florida, and beyond, librarians under siege join forces as unlikely defenders fighting for intellectual freedom on the front lines of democracy in Kim A. Snyder’s The Librarians.
PEN America has documented the rise of book bans and educational gag orders erasing subject matter in public schools since 2021. The organization has documented more than 15,000 instances of book bans during these years, censorship not seen since the Red Scare period of the 1950s. The most frequently targeted books are those that have long fought for a place on shelves–books by authors of color, LGBTQ+ authors, and women, which examine racism, sexuality, gender, and the history of marginalized groups. PEN America has mobilized the public against this censorship and the intolerance and exclusion that undergird it.
Subject Matter’s grant will help PEN America leverage its expertise to connect, support, and protect brave librarians fighting for intellectual freedom.
Sony Pictures has released the first trailer for “Until Dawn.”
Directed by David F. Sandberg, the film is the live-action adaptation of the popular 2015 PlayStation horror game.
In the movie, one year after her sister Melanie mysteriously disappeared, Clover and her friends head into the remote valley where she vanished in search of answers. Exploring an abandoned visitor center, they find themselves stalked by a masked killer and horrifically murdered one by one…only to wake up and find themselves back at the beginning of the same evening.
Starring Ella Rubin, Michael Cimino, Odessa A’zion, Ji-young Yoo, Belmont Cameli, Maia Mitchell, Peter Stormare, the film is set for release on April 25, 2025.
See the official trailer below:
Warner Bros. Pictures has released the trailer for the Robert De Niro gangster film, called “Alto Knights,” which reunites the screen legend with director Barry Levinson.
Written by Oscar nominee Nicholas Pileggi, the film follows Vito Genovese and Frank Costello, a pair of Italian Americans who run two separate crime families in the mid-20th century. Genovese attempted to assassinate Costello in 1957, although Costello retired from the mob.
Also in the movie are Cosmo Jarvis, Debra Messing,
De Niro and Levinson had worked together previously on films such as “Wag the Dog,” “Sleeper” “The Wizard of Lies” and “What Just Happened.”
Warner Bros.’ “The Alto Knights” is set to hit theaters on March 21. Watch the trailer below.
