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Interview: Mel Eslyn – Biosphere

The symbiotic relationship between Mel Eslyn and Mark Duplass is akin to the dynamic between Mario and Luigi – each vital to the other's...

God’s Creatures | Review

Come On, Aileen: Holmer & Davis Craft Old-Fashioned, Straightforward Thriller Parents lying to protect their children’s potentially heinous crimes is a popular motif in arthouse...

2022 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Mel Eslyn’s Biosphere

A veteran film producer on the American indie scene for more than a decade now (plus a generous helping on television series in the...

The White Tiger [Video Review]

Caste Him If You Can: Bahrani Returns with Genre-Tinged Social Issue Saga American filmmaker Ramin Bahrani remains an unpredictable cinematic master, a signature of his...

The Devil All the Time | Review

Devil May Care: Campos Composes Heady Southern Gothic For his fourth feature film The Devil All the Time, based on the 2011 novel by Donald...

The Rental | Review

This Property is Condemned: Franco Mines Interesting Ideas in Faulty Debut Egregiously annoying characters can be either a blessing or a curse to a...

Interview: Alistair Banks Griffin – The Wolf Hour

For his sophomore feature, Alistair Banks Griffin proposes a phobia friendly transgressive and forbidding drama that makes strange bedfellows out of the process of...

The Wolf Hour | Review

Watts the Matter with Naomi?: Griffin Mines Madness in All-Consuming Character Study Director Alistair Banks Griffin revisits one helluva hot summer in the city with...

Alistair Banks Griffin’s The Wolf Hour | 2019 Sundance Film Festival

Once again placing his player(s) through the ringer, Alistair Banks Griffin moves from outdoorsy existentialism and moral quicksand in (2011's Two Gates of Sleep)...

Top 100 Most Anticipated American Independent Films of 2019: #23. Alistair Banks Griffin’s The Wolf Hour

The Wolf Hour The highest ranked Sundance Film Festival selected item on our list belongs to Alistair Banks Griffin and his long awaited second feature...

IONCINEPHILE of the Month: Lance Edmands (Bluebird)

IONCINEMA.com’s IONCINEPHILE of the Month feature focuses on an emerging filmmaker from the world of cinema. Prior to the film's TriBeCa Film Festival world...

2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Kimberly Levin’s Cantuckee

Before it was known as Cantuckee, Kimberly Levin's Land of Tomorrow successfully found some coin via Kickstarter and then had stints at the IFP...

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