Episode 536: The 2025 Sundance Film Festival

Erik Childress and Steve Prokopy return after more than a week in Park City plus virtual screenings for this year’s Sundance Film Festival and they are here to talk about 15 of their favorite films. They include a pair of body horror films about the terror of living happily ever after. There is also the horror of being a parent especially if you live next to the worst kind of Karen. Music plays a role in a lovely story about a washed-up folk singer and a lottery winner plus the heartbreaking tale of an artist taken away from us too quickly. There are more documentaries about the first deaf Oscar winner, teenagers who took on the environmental concerns of their community, the troubling legacy of To Catch a Predator and the consequences of delaying that colonoscopy.  Audiences were treated to standout performances from Dylan O’Brien and the genuine discovery of the debut by a name to remember, Eva Victor. All that plus generational tales of Palestine and the building and rebuilding of America.

0:00 - Intro

5:44 – The Ugly Stepsister

11:03 – The Ballad of Wallis Island

16:16 – It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley

20:04 – Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore

26:26 – The Perfect Neighbor

35:25 – Predators

43:04 – Twinless

48:33 – If I Had Legs, I’d Kick You

54:01 – Andre is an Idiot

57:48 – All That’s Left Of You

1:01:08 – Rebuilding

1:05:33 – Together

1:11:03 – Middletown

1:15:33 – Sorry, Baby

1:23:10 – Train Dreams

1:31:47 – More Sundance Mentions

1:34:29 - Outro