Tag: Anna Kendrick
2023 TIFF: Rustin, The Holdovers, Memory, The Beast, NYAD, Fingernails, Hit Man & The Royal Hotel Get Confirmed Itineraries
With one announcement we got confirmations for films that will either exclusively play in Toronto or will hit either Telluride and/or Venice just prior....
Stowaway [Video Review]
Every Breath You Take: Penna Ponders Morality in Jittery Space Odyssey
“In space, no one can hear you scream,” a foreboding tagline of another sci-fi...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2021: #57. Joe Penna’s Stowaway
Stowaway
Brazilian born musician/director Joe Penna continues with interesting co-production packaging for his sophomore feature Stowaway, a US-German project starring Toni Collette, Anna Kendrick, Daniel...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #77. Stowaway – Joe Penna
Stowaway
Brazilian born musician/director Joe Penna continues with interesting co-production packaging for his sophomore feature Stowaway, a US-German project starring Toni Collette, Anna Kendrick, Daniel...
The Day Shall Come | Review
Fooling the Children of the Revolution: Morris Returns with Dark, Political Satire
Stakes are perhaps too high for writer-director Christopher Morris’s sophomore film following the...
Video: Chris Morris’ The Day Shall Come | 2019 SXSW Film Festival
Eight years after his incendiary debut Four Lions premiered at Sundance, British satirist Chris Morris unveiled his follow-up The Day Shall Come at SXSW...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #86. The Day Shall Come – Christopher Morris
Writer-director Christopher Morris, who won a BAFTA for Best Debut with 2010’s Four Lions, despite having directed four episodes of the television series “Veep”...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #89. Untitled Christopher Morris Comedy
Christopher Morris brought Four Lions to Sundance in 2010, and his follow up went into production in the summer of 2017 in the Dominican...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2018: #61. Untitled Chris Morris Comedy
Can you believe it’s been eight years since Chris Morris’ 2010 debut Four Lions? The breakthrough writer-director, who won a BAFTA for Best Debut...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Jeffrey Blitz’s Table 19
We thought that Fox Searchlight would have dropped this at last year's Sundance or sometime in 2016, but the distribution have pegged it for...
2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Jeffrey Blitz’s Table 19
A dramedy that the Duplass bros. were originally looking to add to their film canon, it's Sundance habitual Jeffrey Blitz who would pick up with torch...
Digging For Fire | Review
Dem Bones: Swanberg’s Mellow Examination of Married Life
A married couple’s weekend apart turns into the sort of mildly enterprising exploration of what happens when...
Kendrick Spirit: Jeffrey Blitz Reteams With Rocket Science Thesp for “Table 19”
A project that was at one point in time set up at Fox Searchlight and had the Duplass bros. looking to direct from their...
The Voices | Review
Playing Off-key: Satrapi’s English Language Debut a Grating Misfire
Iranian born director Marjane Satrapi, best known for her 2007 debut, Persepolis, and a 2011 follow-up,...
Cake | Review
Let Them Have It: Barnz Banks on Adept Aniston
Grief is a prickly emotion to convey within the confines of the indie American melodrama, a...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: John Krasinski’s The Hollars
About a half-dozen years have passed since John Krasinski broke out behind the camera with his 80-minuter raining men oddity. The adaptation of David Foster Wallace's...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Joe Swanberg’s Digging For Fire
Guess who's turning 10? Joe Swanberg has had a "fire" in his belly for, give or take a decade, and his latest in the...
Suffering in Silence; Worthington, Kendrick, Messina & co. Slice into “Cake”
Jennifer Aniston will have quite the "support" group of actors for her next journey into indie film format. Moving away from familiar rom com...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Films for 2014: #77. Marjane Satrapi’s The Voices
The Voices
Director: Marjane Satrapi
Writer: Michael R. Perry
Producers: Matthew Rhodes, Adi Shankar, Roy Lee, Spencer Silna
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available
Cast: Ryan Reynolds, Anna Kendrick, Gemma Arterton,...
Sundance 2014: Colangelo, Shelton, Corbijn, Winterbottom, Araki & Gareth Evans Among 16 V.I.Ps
The Sundance Film Festival made their final feature film line-ups with the Premieres category announcements. Sixteen films with huge name talent, returnee filmmakers and...
Sundance 2014: Cutter Hodierne, Damien Chazelle, Kat Candler & Mona Fastvold Among Lucky 16 U.S. Dramatic Comp Selections
As I had predicted here, names such as Cutter Hodierne, Kat Candler, Maya Forbes, Mona Fastvold and Damien Chazelle would be among the invited...
2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Jeff Baena’s Life After Beth
A huge ensemble cast of indie vets (Anna Kendrick, Aubrey Plaza, Matthew Gray Gubler, Dane DeHaan, Alia Shawkat, John C. Reilly, Cheryl Hines, Paul...
2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Joe Swanberg’s Happy Christmas
While Baumbach and Payne got conformable shooting in B&W (see Frances Ha, Nebraska), Joe Swanberg convinced swag-collecting thesps Anna Kendrick to reteam with him...
Drinking Buddies | Review
Supersize Me: Swanberg Remains Intimate Despite Bigger Budget
Harkening back to the studio system of the 1930s and 40s, the prolific writer/director Joe Swanberg has...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2013: #56. Joe Swanberg’s Drinking Buddies
Drinking Buddies
Director/Writer: Joe Swanberg
Producer(s): Swanberg, Burn Later Productions’ Paul Bernon and Sam Slater, Andrea Roa (Sunlight Jr.) and Alicia Van Couvering (Nobody Walks)
U.S. Distributor:...
