Tag: Aaron L. Gilbert
Licorice Pizza [Video Review]
Age is just a number but when you're a teen at footsteps of what are unattainable gates to adulthood it could feel like entire...
House of Gucci [Video Review]
One of rare breed of studio directors who effectively captures pageantry and opulence no matter the epoque the narrative is set in, social...
2022 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Anthony Mandler’s Surrounded
With an already amazing track record as a music video helmer / television commercial director Anthony Mandler saw his debut feature film Monster break...
Needle in a Timestack | Review
Stye of the Needle: Ridley Can’t Thread Conceptual Sci-Fi
Time travel is tricky, especially when trying to effectively demonstrate its parameters and ramifications in narrative...
Those Who Wish Me Dead [Video Review]
The Fire This Time: Sheridan’s Neo-Western Arrives Lifeless, Overbaked
Casting is an important part of the filmmaking process, and sometimes the highest profile celebrity...
Monster [Video Review]
Fait Accompli: Mandler Mines the Gray Zone of Truth and Consequences
While more of an interesting conversation piece than the accomplished melodrama it deserves to...
Interview: Jeffrey Wright & A$AP Rocky – Anthony Mandler’s Monster
Acting mainstay Jeffrey Wright jumps between mainstream and indie productions like it’s his job. In fact, it is: Wright’s résumé includes Broadway (Angels in...
Interview: Kelvin Harrison Jr. – Anthony Mandler’s Monster
Kelvin Harrison Jr. first came to Sundance with Birth of a Nation in 2016, then Oscar-nominated Mudbound in 2017. This past year, he was...
Interview: Producers Tonya Lewis Lee, Nikki Silver, Mike Jackson, Daniel Crown & Yoni Liebling – Anthony Mandler’s Monster
Sundance ’18 crowd-favorite Monster tells the agonizing tale of a 17-year-old honors student in a racially-charged legal battle. Adapted from Walter Dean Meyers’ award-winning...
Pieces of a Woman | Review
Brink of Life: Mundruczó Hunts for the Grace in Grief with English Language Debut
One of Hungary’s most prolific arthouse auteurs of the last decade...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Barry Levinson’s Harry Haft
Despite the Covid, I'm surprised that this biopic directed by the always busy veteran helmer Barry Levinson didn't shore up at some fest in...
Greyhound | Review
Showboating: Schneider Sinks Ships with WWII Historical Action
Cinema is littered with war-time submarine action epics, a claustrophobic setting which taps into universal anxieties and...
Capone | Review
Gonzo Fonzo: Trank Returns with Tone Poem Portrait of a Monster
The figure of Chicago mobster Al Capone has long been a mythical figure resurrected...
The Way Back | Review
Whisky Galore: Affleck Shines in Character Study on Regret & Retribution
Reception theory often dictates a morbid confluence when consuming entertainment which reflects a kernel...
Joker | 2019 Toronto Intl. Film Festival Review
The Day the Clown Cried: Phillips Tries to Provoke the Herd in Adult Comic Book Origin Story
As another cinematic iteration of the eponymous Joker...
The Mule | Review
Two Kilos for Sister Sara: Eastwood Delivers Drugs and Good Deeds in Character Drama
In a role perfectly suited for him, and in what may...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #70. Gideon Raff – The Red Sea Diving Resort
Perhaps in the same programming methodology as when Sundance included Brad Anderson's Beirut in their 2018 line-up, STX will get to launch Gideon Raff's...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #61. Jennifer Kent – The Nightingale
Sundance was a major launch pad for Jennifer Kent's The Babadook and it could be the lieu for the US premiere (nabbing one of...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #27. Josh Trank – Fonzo
It's time to say goodbye to the De Niro Capone touch from The Untouchables. A meatier, bulkier project that would certainly rev up Sundance audiences,...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #76. Sam Levinson’s Assassination Nation
Assassination Nation
Sam Levinson offered us one of the best films of 2011 with his directorial debut --- we called it “a bitter, nasty, angry film about...
2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Jennifer Kent’s The Nightingale
A filmmaker who needs no introduction, the award-winning The Babadook (among our top 20 for 2014) is among the upper echelon titles that premiered at...
2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Debra Granik’s My Abandonment
We likened her to Kelly Reichardt with a cinema that should sprout internationally and so we were genuinely surprised when she didn't drop into...
2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Sam Levinson’s Assassination Nation
It's been a long seven years between features for Sam Levinson. Having started his film career with one of the best films from 2011...
2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Gary Michael Schultz’s Vincent-N-Roxxy
Half a dozen shorts, one unheard of horror feature film offering (2013's Devil In My Ride) and several indie producing creds most recently William...
2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Benedict Andrews’ Una
Sundance has always been a great launching pad for new breakout talents. Rooney Mara saw her first major part in film was as a...
2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: William H. Macy’s The Layover
Best known for his stumbling car salesman and poor choice of a husband in the Coen Bros's Fargo, in his almost four decade career William...
2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Brady Corbet’s The Childhood of a Leader
If included, it would count as one of the rare Venice preemed North American premiere debuts and uncommon 35mm treats at the fest. After...
Miss Julie | Review
Touch of Class: Ullmann’s Update of Classic Text Ultimately Lifeless
There are a scant few equals to the texts of playwright August Strindberg’s, his 1888...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Reed Morano’s Meadowland
A staple of the Sundance Film Festival since Courtney Hunt's Frozen River in '08, her Park City premiered filmography as a cinematographer was followed by...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Bobby Miller’s The Master Cleanse
After more than a decade of working in the short form (this includes the 2010 Sundance hit TUB - see below), Bobby Miller landed...
Tracking Shot: Van Sant, Doremus, Guadagnino & Reed Morano Shooting This August
“Tracking Shot” is a monthly featurette here on IONCINEMA.com that looks at a dozen or so projects that are moments away from lensing (or...
