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2022 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Taika Waititi’s Next Goal Wins

2021 came and went and yet New Zealand’s Taika Waititi didn't see his latest hit the fest circuit - perhaps it has to do...

The French Dispatch | Review

Repetition Commission: Anderson Flatlines with Twee Aesthetic Since cinema requires a semblance of participation by the audience, a passive relationship of sorts, the latest curio...

2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Taika Waititi’s Next Goal Wins

You won't find a better Sundance ambassador than New Zealand's Taika Waititi who has unveiled several films from his filmography in Park City. His...

2020 Sundance Film Festival: Janicza Bravo’s Zola, Josephine Decker’s Shirley & Eliza Hittman’s Never Rarely Sometimes Always in U.S. Dramatic Comp

Among the sixteen narrative feature films announced today all vying for Grand Jury Prize Award we have highly anticipated items from Janicza Bravo (Zola),...

The Kitchen | Review

The Kitchen, God’s Wife: Berloff Doesn’t Bring the Heat in Halting Melodrama Hell may as yet have no fury like a woman scorned, but the...

Us | Review

Seeing Double: Peele Turns his Camera on Us In the best possible way, Us feels like a Jordan Peele movie -- his sophomore feature offers...

Top 100 Most Anticipated American Independent Films of 2019: #2. Josephine Decker’s Shirley

Shirley Say we omit Josephine Decker's feature docu items Bi the Way and Flames, it's remarkably only with her third "narrative" feature film that becomes a...

Top 50 Most Anticipated American Independent Films of 2019: #48. Casey Affleck’s Light of My Life

Light of My Life Conceptually it could have added so much to the performance art and art imitating life discourse, unfortunately, Casey Affleck's directorial debut...

2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #75. Josephine Decker – Shirley

Josephine Decker's Madeline's Madeline was next level for the filmmaker and so it was no surprise when she joined a project that was already in...

2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #48. Casey Affleck – Light of My Life

Post Manchester by the Sea, in February of 2017, Casey Affleck began filming Light of My Life in British Columbia’s Okanagan valley. Significantly slowing...

Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #12. David Lowery’s Old Man and the Gun

Old Man and the Gun We were correct with our Sundance prediction stating that David Lowery would be at Sundance this year, but it was...

Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #67. Michael Mayer’s The Seagull

The Seagull He appeared on the film scene with A Home at the End of the World (2004) and Flicka (2006) and then....disappeared. A full...

2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Michael Mayer’s The Seagull

We were quite surprised that The Seagull didn't drop sometime in 2017, after all, production did take place in 2015. The good news is...

2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: David Lowery’s Old Man and the Gun

He was getting ready to hit the editing dock not long after I had the chance to speak to him during the tale end...

Interview: Ruben Östlund (The Square)

This weekend, Magnolia Pictures release Swedish auteur Ruben Östlund's latest film, The Square. Winner of this year's Palme d'Or at the 70th Cannes Film...

The Square | 2017 Cannes Film Festival Review

Attenberg Follies: Ostlund’s Meta Commentary Skewers Social Contrivances Adding to a body of work which comically and obsessively examines the underbelly of human desires and...

Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2017: #19. Ruben Ostlund’s The Square

The Square Director: Ruben Ostlund Writer: Ruben Ostlund While plans are underway for an English language remake of Swedish director Ruben Ostlund’s internationally lauded Force Majeure (2014),...

2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Michael Mayer’s The Seagull

A premium title for the acquisitions side of Sundance, Michael Mayer has been absent from feature films since his first pair A Home at the...

Meadowland | Review

Downward Slopes: Morano’s Debut of Downtrodden Beats Cinematographer Reed Morano (The Skeleton Twins; Kill Your Darlings) makes her directorial debut with Meadowland, an increasingly cheerless...

IONCINEPHILE of the Month: Reed Morano (Meadowland)

IONCINEMA.com’s IONCINEPHILE of the Month feature focuses on an emerging filmmaker from the world of cinema....but we would be disingenuous in categorizing this month's...

High-Rise | 2015 TIFF Review

Closer to the Gods: Cult Author Meets Cult Director in Wheatley’s Latest Dish Destined to be overlooked as a visually impressive but significant creative failure,...

Queen of Earth | Review

Earth Below Us: Perry’s Esoteric Puzzle of Women and Madness What a delight to see director Alex Ross Perry continuing his delightful examinations of unlikeable...

IFC Films Not Afraid of Virginia: Perry’s “Queen of Earth” Finds a Lake Home

IFC Films have got themselves a case of cabin fever. The distributor have landed a title that could easily be programmed on their Midnight...

Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2015: #39. Ben Wheatley’s High Rise

High Rise Director: Ben Wheatley// Writer: Amy Jump The fast moving and increasingly prolific Ben Wheatley commands a significant following after only four incredibly well received...

2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Alex Ross Perry’s Queen of Earth

It has been a remarkable, four-star review type of year for Alex Ross Perry, and 2014 ain't over yet with the the Indie Spirits Awards...

2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Reed Morano’s Meadowland

A staple of the Sundance Film Festival since Courtney Hunt's Frozen River in '08, her Park City premiered filmography as a cinematographer was followed by...