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Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #193. Sally El Hosaini & James Krishna Floyd’s Unicorns

Unicorns For their third creative collaboration, actor James Krishna Floyd shares co-directing duties alongside Sally El Hosaini for what becomes her third directing outing. The...

Infinite Storm | Review

White Woman in a Blizzard: Szumowska Pitts Watts Against the Elements in True Life Trauma Drama Polish director Małgorzata Szumowska unleashes her tenth narrative feature...

2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Amy Koppelman – A Mouthful of Air

For a festival that promotes new voices, how much fun would it be to see this debut break into the line-up? Proving that there...

Driveways | Review

This Small Town: Ahn Aims for the Heart in Soulful Suburban Drama Death acts as impetus in cinema, and in some cases characters must deal...

Human Capital (2020) | Review

It’s Easier for a Camel…: Meyers and Moverman Craft Serviceable, Familiar Remake Although it pulls no punches in its re-working of Paolo Virzi’s 2013 title...

Video: Sara Colangelo’s The Kindergarten Teacher | 2018 Sundance Film Festival

Vaguely familiar in its form, it was a definite case of deja vu as I've assisted at both world premiere screenings for the 2014...

Wildling | Review

The Kids Are Not Alright: Böhm Bares His Fangs In Tepid Feral Frightfest Children are scary enough without them being feral, and that fear is...

Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #35. Sara Colangelo’s The Kindergarten Teacher

The Kindergarten Teacher Conceptually speaking, Sara Colangelo's Little Accidents was raw, tonally sound but perhaps lacked a little finesse. I often think about that film...

2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Fritz Böhm’s Wildling

Sundance’s 2015 breakout starlet Bel Powley stars in a project that is being Let The Right One In and maybe a pinch of The Babadook. Prior...

Let the Teenage Girl In: Bel Powley Toplines Friedrich Böhm’s “Wildling”

Sundance's 2015 breakout starlet Bel Powley (The Diary Of A Teenage Girl) is bringing her star wattage to Wildling, an indie project described as...

Still Alice | Review

Red Queen’s Lost Her Head: Westmoreland & Glatzer’s Poetic Elegy of Familial Tragedy It’s been a busy year for Julianne Moore, in between tent pole...

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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.