Tag: Benicio Del Toro
Kill the Jockey | 2024 Venice Film Festival Review
They Kill Horse Riders, Don’t They?: Ortega Puzzles with Deadpan Metaphors
Nothing is what it appears to be in Argentinean Luis Ortega’s latest film Kill...
The French Dispatch | Review
Repetition Commission: Anderson Flatlines with Twee Aesthetic
Since cinema requires a semblance of participation by the audience, a passive relationship of sorts, the latest curio...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Independent Films of 2019: #3. Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch
The French Dispatch
More croissant than cronut, Wes Anderson returns to the red, white and blue but of the Hotel Chevalier and Jacques Cousteau sort...
Song to Song | Blu-ray Review
Terrence Malick runs into his usual refrain in his latest, Song to Song, a film replete with aching, lost souls whose various interconnected narratives...
Song to Song | Review
Music Makes the People: Malick Slathers Austin, Texas with Signature Emotional Ennui
Fragments of lovers drowning beneath the weight of their own expectations and stagnant...
A Perfect Day | Review
All’s Well, End’s Well: Leon de Aranoa’s Benevolent English Debut
Fernando Leon de Aranoa makes his English language debut with A Perfect Day, a period...
Sicario | Blu-ray Review
French Canadian auteur Denis Villeneuve scores another box office hit with critically acclaimed Sicario. The rare genre item to have had a successful premiere as a...
Sicario | Review
The Company of Wolves: Villeneuve’s Superb Packaging Enhances Customary Cartel Themes
There’s much to be excited about with Sicario, the latest film from Quebecois director...
Escobar: Paradise Lost | Review
Drug War Diaries: Di Stefano’s Peripheral Take on Famed Drug Lord’s Activities
For those wishing to learn much of anything about famed Colombian drug lord...
2015 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 7: Villeneuve Takes Back Cannes with Sicario
In the beginning stages of his career (with the exception of Maelstrom showing in Berlin), Denis Villeneuve was an habitual of the Cannes Film...
Inherent Vice | Blu-ray Review
Receiving a mixture of raves, polite applause, and a handful of outright naysayers, Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest concoction Inherent Vice comes to Blu-ray for...
Video Interview: Denis Villeneuve (Sicario)
While some filmmakers only find out the night before, Cannes Film Festival's Thierry Frémaux informed Denis Villeneuve that he'd be part of the Main Comp...
Inherent Vice | Review
The Vice is Right: Anderson’s Inherently Incoherent Pynchon Trip
For his seventh film, auteur Paul Thomas Anderson stakes a claim as the first filmmaker to...
Guardians of the Galaxy | Review
Rocket Fuelled; Gunn Pleasures Summer PG-Spot
It's the end of the world as we know it. Or so the popcorn films of the summer thus...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Films for 2014: #17. Paul Thomas Anderson’s Inherent Vice
Inherent Vice
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
Writer: Paul Thomas Anderson
Producers: Paul Thomas Anderson, Daniel Lupi, JoAnne Sellar
U.S. Distributor: Warner Bros.
Cast: Sasha Pieterse, Jena Malone, Joaquin Phoenix,...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Films for 2014: #81. Terrence Malick’s Untitled Romantic Drama
Lawless
Director: Terrence Malick
Writer: Terrence Malick
Producers: Nicolas Gonda, Sarah Green, Ken Kao
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available
Cast: Christian Bale, Natalie Portman, Ryan Gosling, Michael Fassbender, Cate Blanchett,...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Films for 2014: #199. Andrea Di Stefano’s Paradise Lost
Paradise Lost
Director: Andrea Di Stefano
Writer: Andrea Di Stefano
Producer: Dimitri Rassam
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available
Cast: Benicio Del Toro, Josh Hutcherson, Carlos Bardem, Brady Corbet, Ana Girardot,...
2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Andrea Di Stefano’s Paradise Lost: The Untold Story of Pablo Escobar’s Treasure
There will digital blood in the streets of '14. The first to get their portrait of Pablo Escobar out first, might "win" the battle...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2013: #2. Arnaud Desplechin’s Jimmy Picard
Jimmy Picard
Director: Arnaud Desplechin
Writer(s): Arnaud Desplechin
Producer(s): Why Not Productions' Pascal Caucheteux
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available
Cast: Benicio Del Toro, Mathieu Amalric, Elya Baskin (Spider-Man...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2013: #18. Untitled Terrence Malick project (formerly titled Lawless)
Director/Writer: Terrence Malick
Producer(s): Nicolas Gonda, Sarah Green, Ken Kao
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available
Cast: Christian Bale, Ryan Gosling, Natalie Portman, Cate Blanchett, Michael Fassbender, Rooney Mara,...