Tag: Ellen Page
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Tali Shalom-Ezer’s Mercy
The chances of seeing Israeli filmmaker Tali Shalom Ezer's Mercy premiere at Sundance are next to nil and that's not because it wouldn't be...
Freeheld | Blu-ray Review
Released two weeks after premiering at the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival, Peter Sollet’s awards-baiting LGBT drama Freeheld failed to command an Oscar campaign....
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...
Freeheld | Review
The Equality in Dying: Sollett’s Topical Gay Rights Issue Explores Yesterday’s Nightmares
Had a film like Freeheld been released in the late 2000s, shortly after...
The East | Review
Activism Unchained: Batmanglij Thrills With Eco-Terror
Seemingly a perfect union, the writing duo of director Zal Batmanglij and his hypnotic on screen muse, Brit Marling,...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2013: #52. Zal Batmanglij’s The East
The East
Director: Zal Batmanglij
Writer(s): Batmanglif and Brit Marling
Producer(s): Marling, Michael Costigan, Jocelyn Hayes, Ridley Scott, Tony Scott
U.S. Distributor: Fox Searchlight
Cast: Ellen Page, Alexander Skarsgård,...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2013: #69. Lynn Shelton’s Touchy Feely
Touchy Feely
Director/Writer: Lynn Shelton
Producer: Steven Schardt
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available
Cast: Ellen Page, Rosemarie DeWitt, Allison Janney, Scoot McNairy, Ron Livingston, Josh Pais
If the perfectly titled...