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Needle in a Timestack | Review

Stye of the Needle: Ridley Can’t Thread Conceptual Sci-Fi Time travel is tricky, especially when trying to effectively demonstrate its parameters and ramifications in narrative...

Monster [Video Review]

Fait Accompli: Mandler Mines the Gray Zone of Truth and Consequences While more of an interesting conversation piece than the accomplished melodrama it deserves to...

Interview: Jeffrey Wright & A$AP Rocky – Anthony Mandler’s Monster

Acting mainstay Jeffrey Wright jumps between mainstream and indie productions like it’s his job. In fact, it is: Wright’s résumé includes Broadway (Angels in...

Interview: Kelvin Harrison Jr. – Anthony Mandler’s Monster

Kelvin Harrison Jr. first came to Sundance with Birth of a Nation in 2016, then Oscar-nominated Mudbound in 2017. This past year, he was...

Interview: Producers Tonya Lewis Lee, Nikki Silver, Mike Jackson, Daniel Crown & Yoni Liebling – Anthony Mandler’s Monster

Sundance ’18 crowd-favorite Monster tells the agonizing tale of a 17-year-old honors student in a racially-charged legal battle. Adapted from Walter Dean Meyers’ award-winning...

2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #61. Jennifer Kent – The Nightingale

Sundance was a major launch pad for Jennifer Kent's The Babadook and it could be the lieu for the US premiere (nabbing one of...

2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Jennifer Kent’s The Nightingale

A filmmaker who needs no introduction, the award-winning The Babadook (among our top 20 for 2014) is among the upper echelon titles that premiered at...

2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Anthony Mandler’s Monster

A heavyweight music video helmer for close to two decades, Anthony Mandler's list of creds reads like Jack Kerouac's Famous 'On the Road' scroll....

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