Sundance Film Festival 2016: The best new films, shows and VR

Manchester by the Sea is a beautiful tragedy, and Casey Affleck's finest role

Here’s how Sundance’s first VR residency film got made

Lynette Wallworth's Collisions explores nuclear testing and the language of VR

The best films of Sundance 2016

The Verge picks its favorite films from this year's Sundance lineup.

Nuts: a documentary about goat testicle transplants that's too good to be true

The best virtual reality from the 2016 Sundance Film Festival

Plus the stuff you should try right now

Stephen King adaptation 11.22.63 isn't going to turn Hulu into HBO

The Blackout Experiments takes you inside the most traumatic haunted house of all time

Operation Avalanche is a fake documentary about the faked Apollo Moon landing

Sundance 2016 Days 4-5: Dark Night, Lo and Behold, and the drama of being human

The pro-human tone poems of Sundance

The Chickening is a NSFW, poultry-covered remix of The Shining

Yoga Hosers and the tragedy of Kevin Smith's stoner era

Dear Angelica is Oculus' third virtual reality film, and it's being made in VR

Oculus Story Studio finally finds its voice

Sing Street is a return to form for the director of Once

Sleight director J.D. Dillard talks about his proto-superhero Sundance debut

"We realized that we just had to write something that was small enough that somebody would be crazy enough to let us do it."

The Birth of a Nation just set a record for the biggest Sundance deal ever

Fox Searchlight is paying $17.5 million for Nate Parker's slavery rebellion drama

Our favorite virtual reality filmmakers at Sundance explain how to make great VR

'There's something about reality that is inherently powerful.'

Allumette is a beautiful virtual world from an Oculus Story Studio veteran

A tiny, uncanny city of floating clouds

The co-creators of Starz's The Girlfriend Experience talk about sex, law, and premium cable

"For whatever reason, combining sex and transactions makes people wildly uncomfortable."

The surreal, blissful, and sometimes orgiastic side of VR at Sundance

Weird VR is here to stay

Dark Night is a powerful testimony to the horror of gun violence

Virtual reality pioneer Nonny de la Peña charts the future of VR journalism

'It was very clear to me that this was going to change everybody's lives.'

Werner Herzog's internet doc Lo and Behold is a must-see for anyone on social networks

Samsung is opening a VR film studio in New York City

The virtual reality of Sundance, Day 2: hate is the purest emotion

When the empathy machine works too well

Sundance 2016 Days 2-3: The Lure, Wiener-Dog, and the perks of being a weirdflower

The Lure's logline is straightforward enough: it's a musical set in the 1980s about a pair of siren sisters who get hired to sing at a nightclub and also eat people.