Tag: Ben Nearn

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...

2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Anna Boden & Ryan Fleck’s Mississippi Grind

Technically hitting paydirt in the indie biz with their breakout addiction drama, we could argue that over the course of their four film filmography (television fiction...

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...

Top 200 Most Anticipated Films for 2014: #49. Anna Boden & Ryan Fleck’s Mississippi Grind

Mississippi Grind Directors: Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck Writers: Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck Producers: Electric City Ent.'s Lynette Howell and Jamie Patricof, Sycamore Pictures' Ben Nearn...

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La petite dernière (The Little Sister) | Review

The Lost Daughter: Herzi Passes Up Potency in Standard...

Interview: Marjane Satrapi & Vincent Paronnaud – Persepolis

The thrill of meeting Marjane Satrapi reminded me of being 6 years old at Disney Land when I met the living, breathing Cinderella. Except Cinderella was an actress with a blond wig and Marjane is the real woman behind her autobiographical graphic novel, turned movie, “Persepolis”. The distinctive mole on her nose and her dark sultry eyes rose off the page and appeared in front of me, smoking and speaking with a French accent.

Interview: Eivind Landsvik – Low Expectations | 2026 Cannes Film Festival

Exploring themes of mental health, emotional recovery, companionship, and...