Tag: Hayley Squires
Hoard | Review
M is for the Many Things You Gave Me: Grief Becomes the Remedy in Carmoon’s Debut
“Time heals all old pain, while it creates new...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #140. Luna Carmoon’s Hoard
Hoard
Most filmmakers on our list received formal training but this British filmmaker is our DIY queen. A Stars of Tomorrow 2022 personality, Luna Carmoon...
Storage Units: Luna Carmoon Collects Hayley Squires, Leon & Quinn for “Hoard”
Screen Daily reports that Brit writer-director Luna Carmoon has begun production on her directorial debut and has enlisted the likes of Laura Lightfoot Leon,...
In the Earth | Review
Middling Earth: Wheatley Explores Favored Motifs in Pensive Pandemic Exercise
If we’ve gleaned anything about circumventing Mother Nature, perhaps those 1970s Chiffon margarine commercials featuring...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2021: #83. Ben Wheatley’s In the Earth
In the Earth
Ben Wheatley, like Neill Blomkamp, quietly directed a genre film in the throes of the pandemic. In the Earth, produced and financed...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Will Sharpe’s Louis Wain
A relatively new talent both in front and behind the camera, Will Sharpe starred in Netflix drama Giri/Haji, directed quirky British comedy Flowers, is...
Video Interview: Peter Strickland – In Fabric
We sat with filmmaker Peter Strickland following the premiere of his latest film In Fabric at the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival. Strickland shares...
In Fabric | Review
Dress to Kill: Strickland Strikes Again in Luscious Homage to 70s Cinema
“Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the...
Happy New Year, Colin Burstead | 2018 Intl. Film Festival & Awards Macao Review
New Year’s Evil: Wheatley Finds Humanity Amid Caustic Bickering
Shapeshifting his way along a varied filmography, Ben Wheatley is back after the tongue-in-cheek gunplay bonanza...
Video Interview: Ben Wheatley – Happy New Year, Colin Burstead. | 2018 Intl. Film Festival & Awards Macao
Very much an eclectic, but at the same time cultivating a recognizable brand of cinema, Ben Wheatley is keeping busy these days with his...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2018: #10. Peter Strickland’s In Fabric
In Fabric
British director Peter Strickland is responsible for three formidably distinct genre tinged recuperations of the past decade---and remains frustratingly underrated. Arriving with 2009’s...
I, Daniel Blake | Review
Brexit of Champions: Loach’s Unadorned Blue Collar Melodrama Rages against the Machine
As he has been doing since he became an auteur of note...
The Conversation: 2016 Cannes Film Fest Halfway Point Pulse
Eric Lavallee: Hello Nicholas. Yesterday we completed week one and we're close to the midway point. We've been anticipating Maren Ade's Toni Erdmann for...
2016 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 3: Ken Loach Cares About the Welfare of “I, Daniel Blake”
He has promoted, and as of late, defended the inclusion of this filmmaker, and with I, Daniel Blake - Thierry Frémaux proves that he has...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2016: #87. Ken Loach’s I, Daniel Blake
I, Daniel Blake
Director: Ken Loach
Writer: Paul Laverty
Many assumed British auteur Ken Loach's 2014 film Jimmy's Hall would be his last, mostly because Loach himself...
