If I had Legs I'd Kick You Archives - Vanyaland https://vanyaland.com/tag/if-i-had-legs-id-kick-you/ The proven voice in music since 2013 Fri, 12 Dec 2025 19:09:26 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 https://redefined.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/31135224/cropped-V-SOCIAL-2023-32x32.png If I had Legs I'd Kick You Archives - Vanyaland https://vanyaland.com/tag/if-i-had-legs-id-kick-you/ 32 32 Year in ReView: Vanyaland’s favorite film screen performances of 2025 https://vanyaland.com/2025/12/11/year-in-review-our-favorite-film-screen-performances-of-2025/ Thu, 11 Dec 2025 19:54:57 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10042798 If you’d like to know my thoughts on acting in movies, I’d point you to the scene from Moneyball in which Billy Beane tries to convince Scott Hatteberg to play first base. It is incredibly hard, though the compensation and fame and all of the other accoutrements go a long way to convince the average schlub that it’s easy as hell. Just imagine trying to do a monologue in which you have to run the gamut of emotions while not […]

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]]> IFFBoston Fall Focus 2025: Five films to see for week one https://vanyaland.com/2025/10/09/iffboston-fall-focus-2025-five-movies-to-see-for-week-one/ Thu, 09 Oct 2025 15:17:44 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10042460 Some things are just so nice that you have to do them twice, and that’s the reasoning behind the new format for IFFBoston’s Fall Focus program. It used to be that all of the season’s biggest films would be shown over the course of a single weekend at the Brattle Theatre in Cambridge — if you had apple-picking plans or Oktoberfest business to do, tough luck — but now you’ll get two weekends of incredible cinema a few weeks or […]

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]]> Rose Byrne breaks down in the ‘If I Had Legs I’d Kick You’ trailer https://vanyaland.com/2025/08/06/rose-byrne-breaks-down-in-the-if-i-had-legs-id-kick-you-trailer/ Wed, 06 Aug 2025 16:37:35 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10042185 One of the best films we saw at Sundance this year was Mary Bronstein’s If I Had Legs I’d Kick You, an incredible (and incredibly stressful) portrait of a woman on the verge of collapse. Anchored by a brilliant — and we mean brilliant — performance by Rose Byrne, this is a movie that’s both absurdly funny and deliriously upsetting, and get ready to hear the same old complaints that we heard about Uncut Gems again. Instead of sweating parlays, […]

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]]> Sundance 2025: Rose Byrne walks away with ‘If I Had Legs, I’d Kick You’ https://vanyaland.com/2025/01/28/sundance-2025-rose-byrne-walks-away-with-if-i-had-legs-id-kick-you/ Tue, 28 Jan 2025 10:26:59 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10040569 Editor’s Note: Vanyaland Film Editor Nick Johnston is once again out in Park City, Utah, covering the 2025 Sundance Film Festival. Check out our preview of the 2025 festival; keep it locked to our full coverage of Sundance reviews from this year’s festival as they go live, and check out our full archives of past editions. One can spend hours debating A24’s main contribution to cinema. Some people might cite how they reinvented and refined branded swag into a boutique fashion statement, others […]

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]]> Sundance 2025: Five films we’re excited about at this year’s festival https://vanyaland.com/2025/01/23/sundance-2025-five-films-were-excited-about-at-this-years-festival/ Thu, 23 Jan 2025 11:11:31 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10040536 The last grains of January are draining from 2025’s hourglass, and that can only mean one thing: It’s time for the Sundance Film Festival, once again taking place in lovely Park City, Utah, for the next 10 days (specifically, from January 23 to February 2). It’s a decently weird festival year, to be perfectly frank. First, the industry is still reeling from the LA fires, which directly impacted enough festivalgoers that there was some conversation about potentially delaying and/or canceling […]

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