No Rest for the Wicked: Flanagan Shines with Sprawling King Sequel
Director Mike Flanagan achieves the impossible with Doctor Sleep, a cohesive and effective sequel...
The Death and Life of John F. Donovan
Established Canadian auteur Xavier Dolan embarks on his most ambitious endeavor yet with his long gestating seventh...
Directly following its premiere at the 2015 Telluride Film Festival, Lenny Abrahamson’s Room won the People’s Choice Award at the Toronto International Film Festival,...
Of One’s Own: Abrahamson Delivers Emotionally Potent Adaptation
Irish director Lenny Abrahamson continues his trajectory of unpredictable cinematic platforms with his latest film, Room, an...
The thrill of meeting Marjane Satrapi reminded me of being 6 years old at Disney Land when I met the living, breathing Cinderella. Except Cinderella was an actress with a blond wig and Marjane is the real woman behind her autobiographical graphic novel, turned movie, “Persepolis”. The distinctive mole on her nose and her dark sultry eyes rose off the page and appeared in front of me, smoking and speaking with a French accent.