Tag: Alexander Skarsgård
2023 Marrakech Intl. Film Festival: Joanna Hogg, Dee Rees & Alexander Skarsgård Among Jury Duty Members
The Marrakech International Film Festival head juror Jessica Chastain will be joined by fellow thesps in actress Camille Cottin and actor Alexander Skarsgård, filmmaker-actress...
Infinity Pool | Review
The Dualists: Cronenberg Doubles Down on Class Cliches
“Sorrow is concealed in gilded places, and there’s no escaping it,” wrote Fyodor Dostoevsky in his...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #69. Brandon Cronenberg’s Infinity Pool
Infinity Pool
NEON break in the new year with a title that we've been discussing on and off for some time now. Brandon Cronenberg's first...
The Northman | Review
Whisper Tales of Gore: Eggers Burns Trail to Valhalla in Viking Epic
In keeping with the time-hoary notion of revenge being a dish best served...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #33. Brandon Cronenberg’s Infinity Pool
Infinity Pool
As we learned late last year, cinephiles can now expect Cronenberg riches from not one, but three sources. Sprinkling his filmography with a...
Passing | Review
The Skin I Live In: Hall Formulates an Elegant, Devastating Adaptation of Nella Larsen
For those who have had the pleasure of reading either of...
Godzilla vs. Kong | Review
Gorilla in a Lizard’s Skin: Wingard Writhes in Franchise Fashion
As far as franchise cinema goes, we’ve long surpassed the need to apply any but...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Rebecca Hall’s Passing
One of the most anticipated directorial debuts for a 2021 unveiling comes via actress Rebecca Hall. Based on Nella Larsen’s first published in 1929,...
Interview: Dan Krauss, Nat Wolff & Alexander Skarsgård – The Kill Team
Academy-award nominated filmmaker Dan Krauss returned to Tribeca this year with The Kill Team, based on his documentary of the same name (a 2013...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #44. Dan Krauss – The Kill Team
Who better to adapt non-fic to fiction than .... the filmmaker himself. Winner of the Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary at the Tribeca...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #14. Jeremy Saulnier’s Hold the Dark
Hold the Dark
Prior to launching into Season 3 of True Detective, it appeared that we would have had had the chance to see Jeremy...
2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Jeremy Saulnier’s Hold the Dark
A filmmaker we've been keeping tabs on since the late naughts when his Slamdance/SXSW preemed 2007's Murder Party dropped, Jeremy Saulnier played a significant creative role with...
War on Everyone | Blu-ray Review
Following his 2011 debut The Guard and his moody 2014 sophomore feature Calvary, British filmmaker John Michael McDonaugh hits a false note with his first...
The Legend of Tarzan | Review
Monkey See, Monkey Do: Seditious Subtexts of the White Savior in Latest Tarzan Adaptation
Certain properties are best left alone, allowed to exist in the...
War on Everyone | 2016 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
Let’s Be Bad Cops: McDonagh’s U.S. Visit an Overworked Episode
Director John Michael McDonagh makes his first foray to the US with third feature, War...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2016: #75. John Michael McDonaugh’s War on Everyone
War on Everyone
Director: John Michael McDonaugh
Writer: John Michael McDonaugh
The McDonaugh brothers have been showcasing their particular penchant for dark comedy over the past decade,...
2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: John Michael McDonagh’s War On Everyone
Littered with an international cast comprised of Theo James, Stephanie Sigman, Alexander Skarsgård, Michael Peña, Tessa Thompson and Caleb Landry Jones, while John Michael...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Marielle Heller’s Diary of a Teenage Girl
We'd be hard pressed to find more of an enraptured superfan of Phoebe Gloeckner's graphic novel than Marielle Heller. The actress adapted Diary of...
The Giver | Review
Tis Better to Give: Noyce’s Adaptation Too Little Too Late in YA Dystopic Cinema
In today’s onslaught of dystopic film franchises dominated by adaptations of...
The East | Review
Activism Unchained: Batmanglij Thrills With Eco-Terror
Seemingly a perfect union, the writing duo of director Zal Batmanglij and his hypnotic on screen muse, Brit Marling,...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2013: #52. Zal Batmanglij’s The East
The East
Director: Zal Batmanglij
Writer(s): Batmanglif and Brit Marling
Producer(s): Marling, Michael Costigan, Jocelyn Hayes, Ridley Scott, Tony Scott
U.S. Distributor: Fox Searchlight
Cast: Ellen Page, Alexander Skarsgård,...
