Tag: Elizabeth Banks
2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Christine Jeffs’ A Mistake
Having completed production in the summer of the previous year, Christine Jeffs is now well-prepared to polish off her highly anticipated fourth feature film,...
The Beanie Bubble [Video Review]
Producers: Brian Grazer, Ron Howard, Karen Lunder
Executive Producers: Zach Galifianakis, Douglas S. Jones
Directors: Kristin Gore and Damian Kulash, Jr.
Writer: Kristin Gore.
Director of Photography: Steven...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #113. Christine Jeffs’ A Mistake
A Mistake
Despite being involved in a handful of projects (including an early departure from '21's Every Breath You Take 2021), it'll have been a...
2023 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Peterson, Barthes, Poe, Parmet, Harari
And with less than 72 hours to go before the 2023 Sundance Film Festival line-up is dropped, here is our chunk of titles we...
Call Jane | Review
It Could Happen To You: Nagy Recuperates the Resiliency of Women in Sophisticated Melodrama
Camille Paglia, with her signature dramatic panache, might be among those...
2022 Sundance Film Festival: Phyllis Nagy, Lena Dunham, Jesse Eisenberg, John Patton Ford & Hazanavicius Fill Premieres Section
In the Premieres section you'll usually find a mix of studio unveilings and high profile acquisitions titles and in the almost equal split between...
2022 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Phyllis Nagy’s Call Jane
Finishing just a tad too late for entry into the 2021 autumn film fest schedule, Protagonist Pictures will gift Call Jane at some major...
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2 | Review
To Kill a Mockingjay: Lawrence Brings YA Franchise to Inevitable Denouement
The last tony gasp of Suzanne Collins’ celebrated Hunger Games franchise is steered, at...
Magic Mike: XXL | Review
Live Hard, Sell Hard: Jacobs’ Fluffer Sequel Has One Track Mind
Considering the interest and financial success of 2012’s Magic Mike, it’s no surprise to...
Every Secret Thing | Review
Baby Blues: Berg’s Troubled and Troubling Feature Debut
Treated to a chilly reception following its premiere at the 2014 Tribeca Film Festival last spring, the...
Little Accidents | Review
Casualties of Class War: Colangelo’s Well Performed, Soporific Debut
The directorial debut of Sara Colangelo, Little Accidents, finds a filmmaker afforded the possibility to expand...
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 | Review
The Games They Play: Collins’ YA Dystopia Trudges On and On
As is now customary in the designed business model of franchise movie making,...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Films for 2014: #93. Amy Berg’s Every Secret Thing
Every Secret Thing
Director: Amy Berg
Writer: Nicole Holofcener
Producers: Likely Story’s Anthony Bregman, Frances McDormand
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available
Cast: Dakota Fanning, Elizabeth Banks, Diane Lane
Based on the...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Films for 2014: #153. Bill Pohlad’s Love and Mercy
Love and Mercy
Director: Bill Pohlad
Writer: Oren Moverman
Producers: Bill Pohlad, Claire Rudnick Polstein, John Wells, Brian Wilson
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available
Cast: Elizabeth Banks, Paul Dano, John...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Films for 2014: #170. Sara Colangelo’s Little Accidents
Little Accidents
Director: Sara Colangelo
Writer: Sara Colangelo
Producer: Archer Gray Prod’s Anne Carey, TideRock Media’s Jason Michael Berman and Thomas B. Fore, Summer Shelton
U.S. Distributor:...
Sundance 2014: Colangelo, Shelton, Corbijn, Winterbottom, Araki & Gareth Evans Among 16 V.I.Ps
The Sundance Film Festival made their final feature film line-ups with the Premieres category announcements. Sixteen films with huge name talent, returnee filmmakers and...
2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Sara Colangelo’s Little Accidents (First Look!)
My crystal ball says this might be 2014's answer to Winter's Bone, where tragedy, economics and backdrop are just as strong a character set...
2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Amy Berg’s Every Secret Thing
Once programming announcements were complete for TIFF, my thinking was that all arrows pointed to Sundance programmers gobbling up Amy Berg's new direction in...
Coal Miner’s Daughters & Sons; Sevigny, Josh Lucas & Lofland Complete Cast for Sara Colangelo’s Little Accidents
Indie starlet Chloë Sevigny, veteran Josh Lucas and Mud discovery Jacob Lofland have joined the already mentioned Elizabeth Banks and Boyd Holbrook in Sara...
