"Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it." This classic Ferris Bueller quote is actually one of the best to use to sum up this story of a man in this poetic film about time passing. Train Dreams is one of the greatest discoveries from the 2025 Sundance Film Festival line-up. I had a feeling it might be something special – especially as a train lover who enjoys almost any movie that is about or involves trains. I'm lucky to have had a chance to catch Train Dreams, it's real cinema that is especially powerful if you watch it on the big screen in a theater with an enraptured audience. This is also one of the only films from Sundance this year that made me wonder how they filmed it and how they pulled off these shots - a number of shots involving cutting down trees, building railroads, and a big forest fire are immaculate. It's not easy to make all of this look so realistic yet everything within this film feels like it's a lived-in experience taking us back in time to the end of the 19th and start of the 20th centuries in America. // Continue Reading ›