Tag: Chris Columbus

Interview: Hasan Hidi – The President’s Cake

Earlier this year, first-time filmmaker Hasan Hadi arrived in Cannes, conquered the Croisette landing the coveted Caméra d'Or prize and the newly minted Directors'...

Nosferatu (2024) | Review

Basic Instincts: Eggers Taps Into the Bloodlust with Vampy Remake It would seem there’s no one more fitting than Robert Eggers to mount a remake...

Yes, God, Yes | Review

Obvious Teen: Maine Finds Nostalgia in a Hopeless Place Of the many aspects particular to the late 1990s and early 2000s, where cell phones were...

Video: Geremy Jasper’s Patti Cake$ – 2017 Sundance Film Fest Post Screening Q&A

"Patti is my alter-ego". - Geremy Jasper A project that was nurtured via the various Sundance labs, Patti Cake$ played like gangbusters during its world premiere...

2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Sian Heder’s Tallulah

They say write...what you know, and perhaps in this case, writing what is unknown. It's the sort of the artistic philosophy that filmmaker Sian Heder might...

Pixels | Review

The King of Kong: Columbus Peddles Dopey Sandler Comedy Hailing from some parallel universe where Never Never Land must be the capital is Pixels, a...

Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2015: #88. Jonas Carpignano’s Mediterranea

Mediterranea Director: Jonas Carpignano // Writer: Jonas Carpignano Formerly going by A Chjàna, the same title as the short film (see pic above) on which this...

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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...