Sundance 2025: Thoughts on 'Twinless', 'Move Ya Body', 'By Design', 'Heightened Scrutiny' and More!

Issue No. 38: I refer to Sundance as "The Dance"

Here is the first batch of capsule reviews of films I have seen thus far at the Sundance Film Festival. Enjoy… or don’t. Do what you want. I don’t control your life.

Twinless: Laughing through your tears is the best. Vibin' with James Sweeney's off-center vision and Dylan O'Brien's acting gravitASS (for real, his acting impressed me). An empathetic, yet tongue-in-cheek take on loneliness and the grieving process with a hot mustache moment folded in.

Move Ya Body: The Birth of House: Elegance Bratton thoughtfully navigates the inception of the house music movement in Chicago and paints a thorough picture of how this country likes to pilfer Black art & culture and erase queerness -- but both communities still manage to thrive.

By Design: Love seeing bonkers, but wildly intimate stories like this. For crying out loud -- it's a story about a woman who becomes a chair with modern dance and performance art woven throughout. Director Amanda Kramer served up a treat that was fresh, weird, and un…