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2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Charlie Stratton’s Seacole

With some television work and one feature under his belt In Secret (TIFF '13), Charlie Stratton began lensing Seacole back in March of 2019...

Misbehavior | Review

Through Beauty, Equality: Lowthorpe Examines Intersections Through Provocative Period Nexus Sporting material speckled with enough players and perspectives to justify a much longer format, Philippa...

Summerland | Review

Castles in the Sky: Swale Finds Love During Wartime in Likeable Debut Although it’s a somewhat simple and ultimately schmaltzy dose of narrative convenience, Jessica...

Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #149. Misbehavior – Philippa Lowthorpe

Misbehavior Celebrated British television director Philippa Lowthorpe (the first woman to win a BAFTA TV Award for Directing for 2012’s “Call the Midwife,” an award...

2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje’s Farming

It's been a good decade since the project arrived in draft form at both Sundance Labs, so once it premieres we'll be able to...

Beauty and the Beast | Review

The Beast Must Die: Condon’s Expensive Rehash is Fairy Tale Facsimile For a film with a budget of three hundred million claiming to be the...

Through the Looking-Glass…Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2018: #6. Ava Duvernay’s A Wrinkle in Time

A Wrinkle in Time Director: Ava DuVernay Writer: Jennifer Lee Years from now, director Ava DuVernay will continually be referenced for a dizzying amount of incredible firsts...

The Whole Truth | Review

Truth, Be Told: Hunt Returns to Moral Grey Zone with Courtroom Drama The only real anomalistic quality to Courtney Hunt’s long awaited sophomore feature The...

Free State of Jones | Review

The Newton Men: Ross Emancipates History Lesson from Obscurity At a point in time, a dramatic reenactment of a provocative but overlooked American Civil War...

Concussion | Review

Head in the Game: Landesman Continues to Plumb the Headlines Films based on notable or landmark pieces of newsprint tend to face an uphill battle...

Jupiter Ascending | Blu-ray Review

Premiering as the 'secret screening' at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival shortly before its theatrical premiere, the latest sci-fi extravaganza from the Wachowskis opened...

Jupiter Ascending | Review

Space Princess Diaries: Wachowski’s Space Adventure is Intergalactic Hooey Those craving the intelligent sci-fi that graced their early 1999 sci-fi classic The Matrix are sure...

Beyond the Lights | Review

Why you wanna fly, Blackbird?: Mbatha-Raw Vibrantly Imbues Prince-Blythewood’s Showbiz Melodrama A systematically underrated director, Gina Prince-Bythewood returns with her third feature film, Beyond the...

Birds & the Bees…Boyhood Leads 24th Gotham Independent Film Award Noms

Deemed as his career best, Richard Linklater's Boyhood leads all nominations for the 24th Gotham Independent Film Awards with winks in the Best Feature,...

Belle | Review

But Your Picture On My Wall: Asante’s Sophomore Feature Revisits Compelling Historical Episode A decade after her 2004 directorial debut, A Way of Life, director...

Top 200 Most Anticipated Films for 2014: #160. Gina Prince-Bythewood’s Blackbird

Blackbird Director: Gina Prince-Bythewood Writers: Gina Prince-Bythewood Producers: Stephanie Allain, Reggie Rock Bythewood, Ryan Kavanaugh U.S. Distributor: Relativity Media Cast: Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Minnie Driver, Danny Glover, Nate Parker Sharing the...

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