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Kinds of Kindness | Review

Bounds of Boundaries: Lanthimos Entertains Himself with Bizarre Triptych It’s safe to say Yorgos Lanthimos has undoubtedly entered the oblivious, self-indulgent era of his career...

Poor Things | Review

The Story of O: Lanthimos Mesmerizes with Fiercely Compelling Frankenstein Tale “Men have constructed female sexuality and in so doing have annihilated the chance for...

2024 Sundance: Jesse Eisenberg, Sean Wang, Laura Chinn, India Donaldson & Zucheros in U.S. Dramatic Comp

The big surprise for the U.S. Dramatic Competition this year is they shaved off two titles making a dozen into a ten piece. We...

2024 Sundance: Schoenbrun’s “I Saw the TV Glow” & Rose Glass’ “Love Lies Bleeding” Among Midnight Selections

The Midnight section offering eight items and floating to the top on pretty much everyone's list we find some highly anticipated sophomore features in...

2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Jane Schoenbrun’s I Saw the TV Glow

Her feature debut We’re All Going to the World’s Fair (2021) was an official Sundance selection (pandemic edition) but everything indicates that Jane Schoenbrun...

2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Jesse Eisenberg’s A Real Pain

After launching When You Finish Saving the World (which we called "while neither revolutionary nor rudimentary, it’s a surprisingly sober and mature portrait on...

When You Finish Saving the World | Review

A Tube with a View: Eisenberg Debuts Gentle Narrative on Misplaced Intentions ‘Familiarity breeds contempt,’ could have been the tagline for Jesse Eisenberg’s lovely, low-key...

Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #11. Yorgos Lanthimos’ AND

AND A year-end item that squeezed itself at the top of our list is Greek helmer Yorgos Lanthimos’ latest project which sees him reteam with...

Channel Surfing: Production Begins on Jane Schoenbrun’s “I Saw the TV Glow”

After delivering one of the more remarkable micro-indie items of 2021 in We're All Going to the World's Fair, Jane Schoenbrun is (via the...

Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #8. Yorgos Lanthimos’ Poor Things

Poor Things Produced by Yorgos Lanthimos, Element Pictures' Ed Guiney, Andrew Lowe. Directed by Yorgos Lanthimos Written by Tony McNamara Starring: Emma Stone, Margaret Qualley, Willem Dafoe, Mark...

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: Jesse Eisenberg’s When You Finish Saving the World

Everyone knows the actor, but we might have to think of him differently in the year ahead. Jesse Eisenberg's When You Finish Saving the...

Cruella [Video Review]

Cruella Intentions: Gillespie Recuperates Another Villainess in Perky Origin Story Those familiar with a particular period of pseudo-morbid live-action Disney productions from the 1970s and...

The Favourite | Review

Courtship at Court: Lanthimos Delights with 18th-century Royal Love Triangle At Her Majesty Queen Anne’s palace, its a disheveled state of affairs. There’s an ongoing...

Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2018: #33. Yorgos Lanthimos’ The Favourite

The Favourite Fox Searchlight Pictures already owns the distribution rights for Yorgos Lanthimos’ next feature, The Favourite, which is described as a bawdy tale of...

Irrational Man | Review

Tepid Contemplation: The Unraveling of a Mild Murder Plot For his 46th feature film, Irrational Man calls upon Woody Allen’s fascination, or at least tendency to create a...

Birdman | Blu-Ray Review

Taking home four Oscars out of its nine nominations, including Best Picture, Director, Original Screenplay and Cinematography, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu’s Birdman was the big...

The Conversation: 2015 Oscar Predix: Wild at Heart… Arquette Leads Dern & Co. for Best Supporting Actress Win

The Nominations: Best Supporting Actress Patricia Arquette in “Boyhood” Laura Dern in “Wild” Keira Knightley in “The Imitation Game” Emma Stone in “Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of...

Birdman | Review

Bullets Over Broadway: Inarritu’s Vibrant, Exuberant Portrait Of Celebrity, Relevance, and Creative Passion Not only is Birdman (or The Virtue of Ignorance) arguably the best...

Magic in the Moonlight | Review

Hocus Pocus: Allen’s Latest a Re-hash of All-Too-Familiar Themes Returning once more to the world of psychics and magicians to inform his breezy comedic styling,...

Top 200 Most Anticipated Films for 2014: #40. Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Birdman

Birdman Director: Alejandro González Iñárritu Writers: Alejandro González Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris, Armando Bo Producers: Alejandro González Iñárritu, John Lesher, Arnon Milchan, James W. Skotchdopole U.S. Distributor:...

Top 200 Most Anticipated Films for 2014: #165. Cameron Crowe’s Deep Tiki

Deep Tiki Director: Cameron Crowe Writer: Cameron Crowe Producers: Scott Rudin and Crowe U.S. Distributor: Columbia Pictures Cast: Bradley Cooper, Rachel McAdams, Emma Stone, Alec Baldwin, Danny McBride Excluding his...

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