Tag: Chiwetel Ejiofor
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...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #65. Sophie Barthes’ The Pod Generation
The Pod Generation
We thought there was an outside chance that this third feature film The Pod Generation from French-American filmmaker Sophie Barthes would premiere...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #56. Sophie Barthes’ The Pod Generation
The Pod Generation
Fatigue, odd food cravings, varicose veins, and stretch marks - while parenthood ain't all it's cracked up to be, what if men...
Locked Down [Video Review]
Tell-Tale Hearts: Liman Conjures a Time Capsule in Curious Cinematic Exercise
As cinematic content continues to unspool through premiering projects completed prior to the start...
The Old Guard | Review
No Man Could Be Their Equal: Prince-Bythewood Ponders Immortality with Graphic Novel Adaptation
Director Gina Prince-Bythewood’s fourth film is a marked departure from her previous...
2019 Sundance Film Festival: Berlinger, Estes, Clermont-Tonnerre, Scott Z. Burns & Wnendt in Premieres section
Last year's Premieres section gave us offerings such as the Zellner Bros.' Damsel, Debra Granik's Leave No Trace and Elizabeth Chomko's What They Had....
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #16. Chiwetel Ejiofor – The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
With a recent Netflix pick-up, the distrib will have to figure out if it'll throw Chiwetel Ejiofor’s directorial debut The Boy Who Harnessed the...
Come Sunday | Review
Preaching to the Choir: Marston Tackles Modern Heresy in Orthodox Glance at Evangelical Hypocrisy
There are numerous epithets various strands of Christianity tend to utilize...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #41. Joshua Marston’s Come Sunday
Come Sunday
Joshua Marston's fourth feature film once again sees him work within a dramatic genre framework, but becomes a first bio-treatment for the helmer...
Sundance ’18: Wash Westmoreland, Debra Granik, Gus Van Sant & Zellner Bros. In Premieres Section
Despite not expecting the Premieres sections to be drop today, several of the narrative items below were on our radar and make for what...
2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Joshua Marston’s Come Sunday
A place that can be avoided by obedience to God and his commandments, the Mormons don't see what all the fuss is about like...
Doctor Strange | Review
Time After Time: More Snark, Less Spark in Derrickson’s Entry into the Marvelverse
Marvel introduces their approximation of the mystical realm with their unleashing of...
Triple 9 | Blu-ray Review
Following the relative disappointment of his 2012 Western Lawless, John Hillcoat scored a pulpy comeback with heist thriller Triple 9, even though it only recouped...
Triple 9 | Review
The Russians Are Coming: Hillcoat Juggles Strands in Sprawling Heist Thriller
About half way into John Hillcoat’s impressively staged heist thriller Triple 9, it becomes...
Secret in Their Eyes | Review
The Eyes Have It: Ray’s Unnecessary Remakes Pales Next to Source
Thanks to mainstream America’s huffy dismissal of subtitles when it comes to cinema, we...
The Martian| Review
Stranger in a Bland Land: Scott’s Toilsome Return to Space
Ridley Scott, who is on the same annual cinematic trajectory as Woody Allen when it...
Z for Zachariah | Review
This is the End: Zobel’s Post-Apocalyptic Love Triangle
Following the success of his galvanizingly uncomfortable 2012 film Compliance, director Craig Zobel teases his way into...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Craig Zobel’s Z for Zachariah
We can still feel the heat generated from Craig Zobel's Compliance. His sophomore film, which was made on a dime (his directorial debut Great World...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Films for 2014: #45. Craig Zobel’s Z for Zachariah
Z for Zachariah
Director: Craig Zobel
Writers: Pall Grimson, Nissar Modi
Producers: Sophia Lin, Tobey Maguire, Skuli Fr. Malmquist, Matthew Plouffe
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available
Cast: Amanda Seyfried, Chris...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Films for 2014: #64. John Hillcoat’s Triple Nine
Triple Nine
Director: John Hillcoat
Writer: Matt Cook
Producers: Anonymous Content's Bard Dorros, Steve Golin and Keith Redmon
U.S. Distributor: Open Road
Cast: Aaron Paul, Michael B. Jordan, Kate...
12 Years a Slave | Review
Reliving Dehumanization: McQueen Lenses Masterpiece of Repressed American History
For Steve McQueen, filmmaking has been a hard edged exercise in emotional archeology, burrowing into the...
Generation Z: 36th Mill Valley FF Features 12 Years A Slave, Effie Gray, Walter Mitty & Costa-Gavras Tribute
The 36th edition of the Mill Valley Film Festival (October 3rd-13th) has your usual mix of award season contenders, talent tribute and spotlights, a...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2013: #15. Steve McQueen’s Twelve Years a Slave
Twelve Years a Slave
Director: Steve McQueen
Writer(s): McQueen & John Ridley
Producer(s): Anthony Katagas, Brad Pitt
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available
Cast: Benedict Cumberbatch, Brad Pitt, Michael Fassbender, Paul...
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