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DESERT ROAD (SXSW2024) – Review by Liz Whittemore

March 11, 2024March 11, 2024 Liz Whittemore Desert Road, Kristine Froseth, Nico Navia, sci-fi thriller, Shannon Triplett, SXSW 2024

Shannon Triplett delivers a mind-bending sci-fi thriller with her SXSW 2024 film Desert Road. When a young woman crashes her car on a seemingly barren highway, she must backtrack to the gas station she just left. While waiting for a tow truck driver to pull her car to safety, she discovers that no matter how far she moves away from her vehicle, she arrives at the crash site again and again. Triplett keeps us guessing as theories swirl from moment to moment.

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THE BUCCANEERS – Review by Elisabetta Bianchini

November 7, 2023January 13, 2026 Elisabetta Bianchini Alisha Boe, Apple TV+, Aubri Ibrag, Christina Hendricks, Edith Wharton, Imogen Waterhouse, Josie Totah, Katherine Jakeways, Kristine Froseth, The Buccaneer

Fun, drama and female friendship are at the heart of the new show The Buccaneers on Apple TV+, starring Kristine Frøseth, Alisha Boe, Josie Totah, Aubri Ibrag, Imogen Waterhouse and Christina Hendricks, an adaptation of Edith Wharton’s final novel. For creator Katherine Jakeways, what made Wharton’s story a worthy starting point for her next project was very much connected to her interest in the characters. “Edith Wharton has done such a phenomenal job of making these girls come to life on the page and already feeling like they could be girls who existed at any point in history. They’re just women, they’re just friends,” says Jakeways. “It’s not just about the girls, the older female characters, particularly Mrs. St. George in the book, I just love, and Christina Hendricks has done such a great job of bringing her to life. … We’ve sort of tried to keep the older characters just as interesting and as complicated, and surprising, as the younger characters.”

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SHARP STICK – Review by April Neale

July 19, 2022July 31, 2022 April Neale jennifer jason leigh, Jon Bernthal, Kristine Froseth, lena dunham, Sharp Stick, Taylour Paige

Sharp Stick is one of the films you watch and glean very little from unless you act like “some schmoe off the bus from Idaho,” which the lead character, Sarah Jo (Kristine Froseth), does with alacrity. Sarah Jo is a fantastic caregiver, and has a way with challenged kids that would make her a star for any family dealing with a child with issues.

Festivals Reviews

SHARP STICK (Sundance FF 2022) – Review by Lauren Anderson

January 24, 2022January 24, 2022 Lauren Anderson (Archived Contributor) jennifer jason leigh, Kristine Froseth, lena dunham, Sharp Stick, sundance film festival 2022, Taylour Paige

After a decade away from feature films, Lena Dunham return to the Sundance Film Festival in 2022 with Sharp Stick, a witty sex comedy that explores coming-of-age through female sexuality. Starring Dunham, Sharp Stick is the story of a 26-year-old woman’s desire to explore sex in the most grandiose and bizarre way. Sharp Stick is a hilarious and engaging return to the screen for the Girls creator. Much like the HBO series did during its six-season run, Sharp Stick demonstrates growth and change through some of the oddest occurrences.

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BIRDS OF PARADISE – Review by Maitland McDonagh

September 21, 2021September 30, 2021 Maitland McDonagh A.K. Small, Birds of Paradise, Diana Silvers, Kristine Froseth, Paris Opera Ballet, sarah adina smith

Birds of Paradise treads the well-worn path blazed by films powered by the refrain that ‘everything is not beautiful at the ballet.’ The dance drama is beautifully made (even if it works the birds metaphor pretty hard) and never succumbs to the temptation to make the ballet world more “accessible” by revolving around an implausible outsider–I’m looking at you, Flashdance, and other misguided attempts to make the “stodgy” world of classical dance more relatable by focusing on a rebel whose mission is to make it less classical dance-y.