The Little Thingsâ will open in theaters and on HBO Max Jan. 29.
THE LITTLE THINGS
Denzel Washington has appeared in several edgy movies as a not exactly good guy. This time he appears saddled with guilt, but no crime is evident. Â
 In this set-in-the-1990s psychological thriller, Washington, plays overweight and troubled rural Kern County, California deputy sheriff Joe âDekeâ Deacon. On an errand from Kern Country, he travels back home to the Los Angeles Sheriffâs Department. Fascinated by a new murder case, Deke takes vacation days and insinuates himself into working with hotshot Sgt. Jim Baxter (Rami Malek) to find a possible serial killer.
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The Sundance Film Festival is now underway, and even with a smaller program and mostly virtual events, it has still sent bolts of excitement through the air. New movies! Fresh filmmakers!
As it should be.
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Festival organizers have quite shrewdly leaned into all the ways this year can be not just unusual but special, crafting a unique online experience from waiting rooms to screenings, Q&As and even virtual hangout sessions. While screenings are ticketed, events and panels including a series of L.A. Times talks are free.
SAINT MAUD Is a Dense, Intimate Slice of Religious Horror
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Trauma doesn’t just cast shadows. It can reorder a life, atom to atom, bone to bone. And what we make of our trauma well, that’s the game of life, isn’t it? Some find power in their past. Others make a mess of it. And always, it’s a disruption. One that can be revelatory and euphoric, or utterly damning.
For a nurse named Katie (Morfydd Clark), trauma binds her to Roman Catholicism. That’s where we find her at the beginning of
Saint Maud, the debut feature from writer/director Rose Glass. Katie rechristens herself Maud and devotes her life to God after a troubling incident with a patient. But her religion soon turns fanatic and dangerous.
Maud and God: A Conversation with Rose Glass
The writer-director s debut feature, Saint Maud, is finally coming to US screens. We got on the phone with her nearly a year ago.
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Welcome to
World Builders, our ongoing series of conversations with the most productive and thoughtful behind-the-scenes craftspeople in the industry. For this entry, we chat with Saint Maud writer-director Rose Glass. Note: this interview was conducted in February 2020 before the film’s original April 2020 date was scrapped and its release was postponed.
Most first-time filmmakers endure a long, arduous creative process from script to screen, but few have had to tack on the indeterminate anxiety of distribution limbo as it exists in a pandemic-ridden world, and even fewer have had to shoulder that heavy consternation with the promise of a breakthrough under their belt, like