Tag: Christina Hendricks
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #47. Marianna Palka’s Egg
Egg
While you were sleeping, Marianna Palka was busy creating. We'll never be able to forget the transparency of the shared experience that is Lucy...
Bad Santa 2 | Blu-ray Review
The second time was not the charm for Bad Santa 2, the late staged sequel to the 2003 R-rated cult comedy directed by Terry...
Bad Santa 2 | Review
Regifted Goods: Waters Takes the Reigns for Unnecessary Sequel
There’s an art to vulgar comedy, requiring a sly talent for successfully presenting off color humor...
The Neon Demon | Blu-ray Review
After premiering to divisive responses at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival where it played in competition (jeers were mixed with waves of derisive laughter...
The Neon Demon | Review
Death Walks on High Heels: Refn Delves Daftly into the Los Angeles Fashion Demimonde
To reference John Waters’ definition of beauty, “a face should jolt,...
2016 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 10: Refn Takes Fashionable Approach to “The Neon Demon”
Prior to hitting the Cannes comp with his Best Director prize winning Drive (2011) and the much disliked Only God Forgives (2013), this Danish-American...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2016: #16. Nicolas Winding Refn’s The Neon Demon
The Neon Demon
Director: Nicolas Winding Refn
Writers: Mary Laws, Nicolas Winding Refn
Danish auteur Nicolas Winding Refn, who has since attained cult status thanks to the...
Dark Places | Review
Grim Girl: Pacquet-Brenner’s Adaptation Brandishes Relentlessly Contrived Twists
“I have a meanness in me,” warns the omniscient narrator of Dark Places, as voiced by a...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Ryan Gosling’s Lost River
Ryan Gosling moved into the director's chair in 2013. Though it was cheered at its reception, Lost River (formerly titled "How to Catch a...
God’s Pocket | Review
Pocket Full of Sunshine: Slattery’s Debut Weak in the Knees
The devil’s not in all the details he should be of God’s Pocket, the directorial...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Films for 2014: #95. Ryan Gosling’s How To Catch a Monster
How To Catch a Monster
Director: Ryan Gosling
Writer: Ryan Gosling
Producers: David Lancaster, Michel Litvak, Marc Platt, Adam Siegel, Jeffrey Stott
U.S. Distributor: Warner Bros.
Cast: Saoirse Ronan,...
Sundance 2014: Cutter Hodierne, Damien Chazelle, Kat Candler & Mona Fastvold Among Lucky 16 U.S. Dramatic Comp Selections
As I had predicted here, names such as Cutter Hodierne, Kat Candler, Maya Forbes, Mona Fastvold and Damien Chazelle would be among the invited...
2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: John Slattery’s God’s Pocket
He traded on-set education on Mad Men and then cornered this project almost a decade earlier when he picked it up as a...