In spite of his cringe-inducing jabber and matted-down bangs, he’s still too charming to convince as a no-views loser. Other projects grapple with the implications of natural-language processing, like Persuasion Machines, made by the creators of documentary The Great Hack, that visualizes the surveillance taking place through the smart devices all around us and lets you follow the journey of the data collected on you.

Hulu is bringing in Hillary Clinton, who will speak at the premiere screening of the service's docuseries about her. Preposterously funny, violently zany, Spree is a full-bore farce that makes you laugh, squirm and occasionally scratch your head.

Spree stars Keery, best known for playing Steve "The Hair" Harrington in Netflix's retro sci-fi hit Stranger Things, as a social-media-obsessed ride-hail driver. Dylan Kai Dempsey. VR doesn't end with New Frontier. Sundance 2020: Taylor Swift, VR snorkels and other oddities in Park City. Kotlyarenko keeps the viewers’ reactions pouring in at the bottom of the screen to an almost dizzying extent, yet what works the best is how it predicts—and often says—precisely what those in the theater are thinking. The individual set pieces manage to entertain as well, but again, there just isn’t enough here. (This review is part of our coverage of the 2020 Sundance Film Festival.). Live-streamed murder. Share; Tweet; Comment; Please Share! In terms of social savvy, the two are polar opposites—ie, perfect foils for comic confrontations and awkwardly preachy moments. Whatever you’re already imagining, Spree takes it to the extreme: usually to dark, hilarious effect, but occasionally into lamer territory (Jessie’s supposedly viral comedy lands fewer laughs than Kurt’s floundering skits). Press Esc to cancel.

Even before its release, the doc has been making headlines for Clinton's unvarnished comments about former political rivals.

The festival, which kicked off its 10-day run Thursday night, is saturated with tech more than ever, often grappling with its consequences. Photo Gallery; Trailers and Videos; Details. I'm bored,'" Swift said in an interview with Variety. Film Festival Review 0; Please Tweet! Based on a viral thread of 144 tweets in 2015, this movie re-creates A'ziah "Zola" King's madcap cross-country trip to make as much money as possible in Florida strip clubs, a saga that included prostitution, murder and attempted suicide.

Spree is a fresh and timely take on the sociopathic white guy subgenre: shot entirely on iPhones and go-pros, propelled by DJ Kurt’s own cacophonous synthesizers, well-researched in reddit-slang and meme-speak. Which segues into projects that seem to defy description. Other documentaries tackle tech as a subject: The Social Dilemma is touted as delving into the underbelly of Silicon Valley in a film described as a mix of An Inconvenient Truth and The Matrix.

Eugene Kotlyarenko’s fifth feature film is an outrageously satirical indictment of influencer culture with a commanding lead performance by Stranger Things’ Joe Keery.

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But while the movie develops her to be an actual part of the story, she, for the most part, plays like a device to keep audiences from checking out. Keery’s beady-eyed work is too one-note to distinguish when he’s playing the sympathy card for those watching at home or if it’s a foible to his character. Rather than a ripped-from-the-headlines story, Zola's plot was ripped from the Twitter feed. Spree is playing in the NEXT section of the 2020 Sundance Film Festival and is currently seeking distribution. This hive mind is the film’s truest antagonist, steering Kurt to the dark side like Palpatine toward Vader—thereby revealing the deepest truth about our culture’s obsession with surface. Of course, the 2010s didn’t birth this sort of infamy, but, like some sort of trickle-down economics, it helped normalize it. Interview: Composer Jean-Michel Blais – Matthias & Maxime

Update, Jan. 24: Adds information on The Dissident and On the Record, plus other details as the festival progresses. Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. Reviews But what about the kids that aren’t famous, the ones that aren’t pulling pranks on the homeless?

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