Tag: Aubrey Plaza
Megalopolis | Review
Atlas Farted: Coppola’s Labor of Love a Lackluster Saga
While he’s one of the greatest film directors of all time, mostly thanks to a handful...
2024 Sundance: A Different Man, The Outrun, Winner & Sasquatch Sunset Among Premieres
Sundance Film Festival's Premiere section (a mix of fiction and docs) will have some biggie titles to contend with the likes of Aaron Schimberg's...
2022 Indie Spirits Awards Noms: The Cathedral, Palm Trees and Power Lines, Murina & Aftersun Are Glowing
Everything Everywhere All At Once, Tár, Women Talking and Bones and All are the heavyweight indies that will be properly feted the day before...
2022 Gotham Awards Noms: Todd Field’s Tár Takes Centerstage, Aftersun Gets Love Blisters
Aftersun is the tops of the noms garnering Breakthrough Performer, Breakthrough Director, Outstanding Lead Performance and Best Feature. The noms are out and we...
2022 Sundance Film Festival: Phyllis Nagy, Lena Dunham, Jesse Eisenberg, John Patton Ford & Hazanavicius Fill Premieres Section
In the Premieres section you'll usually find a mix of studio unveilings and high profile acquisitions titles and in the almost equal split between...
2022 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Jeff Baena’s Spin Me Round
It was pasta, wine, and a the Leaning Tower of Pisa type backdrop for the cast of goofballs assembled for Jeff Baena's five feature...
Black Bear [Video Review]
Husband and Wives and Bears, Oh My!: Levine’s Dark Dream an Ambiguous, Playful Psychodrama
The crux of our innate creative necessities might require something beyond...
Happiest Season [Video Review]
Harper’s Bizarre: DuVall Reinvents the Queerness of Holiday Traditions
Across a wide variety of genres and narratives, going home for the holidays, and the intended...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Lina Roessler’s Best Sellers
An actress turned director hit the lottery when the likes of Michael Caine, Aubrey Plaza and Cary Elwes lined up for her directorial debut....
2020 Sundance Film Festival: Omniboat, Lawrence Michael Levine, Heidi Ewing & Danny Madden in the NEXT Section
The Death of Dick Long, Give Me Liberty, Selah and the Spades and Alistair Banks Griffin's The Wolf Hour (which is receiving its theatrical...
Video: Jim Hosking’s An Evening with Beverly Luff Linn | 2018 Sundance Film Festival
The type of idiosyncratic creative that will likely polarize auds much in the same way Harmony Korine did, Jim Hosking's follow up to The...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #44. Jim Hosking’s An Evening with Beverly Luff Linn
An Evening with Beverly Luff Linn
Jim Hosking's debut film The Greasy Strangler was sort of like the squid option at a restaurant -- an...
Sundance ’18: Decker, Moselle, Spiro, Hosking & Zagar Among NEXT Selections
Last year's batch of ten included some primo items in David Lowery's A Ghost Story, Janicza Bravo's Lemon and Justin Chon's Gook (the Sundance...
2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Jim Hosking’s An Evening with Beverly Luff
Heavy on the gag....reflex, Jim Hosking's feature break out debut (a 2016 Sundance Park City at Midnight selection) was what could categorically be called...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Jeff Baena’s The Little Hours
Can filmmaker Jeff Baena get the triple crown of Sundance invites? So far two for two with his feature films in 2014's Life After...
Mambo Italiano: Aubrey Plaza & Alison Brie Among Regs in Jeff Baena’s “The Little Hours”
Usual contributors Aubrey Plaza and Paul Weitz, Life After Beth's John C. Reilly and Molly Shannon, Joshy's Alison Brie and Adam Pally and a...
2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Jeff Baena’s Joshy
Equal measures irritably supercilious and demonically brilliant, our introduction to this filmmaker came via his co-writing gig: 2004's I Heart Huckabees. Fast forward a decade...
Addicted to Fresno | Review
But I’m a Sex Addict: Babbitt Returns to Dark Comedy with Mixed Results
Though the film rests rather comfortably on the shoulders of its talented...
Ned Rifle | Review
Nobody’s Fool: Hartley Concludes His Grim Trilogy
While it may be wholly unnecessary to see the two preceding films in the loosely knit Grim trilogy...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Zachary Sluser’s The Driftless Area
With a trio of short films under his belt, Zachary Sluser hit indie film pay dirt with a measuring cup full of Sundance vets...
About Alex | Review
Still the Chill: Zwick Assembles Fine Cast for Routine Exercise
Jesse Zwick, son of director Edward Zwick, has amassed a fine cast of young actors...
No Longer Seeking Susan; Hal Hartley Lands Aubrey Plaza Opposite Henry Fool Jr. in “Ned Rifle”
Moving from Whit Stillman (Damsels in Distress) to a zombie romance (Life After Beth) with a rare indie sci-fi flick in between (Safety Not...
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...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2013: #61. Fredrik Bond’s The Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman
The Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman
Director: Fredrik Bond
Writer(s): Matt Drake
Producer(s): Albert Berger, Craig J. Flores, William Horberg, Ron Yerxa
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available
Cast: Shia LaBeouf,...