Tag: Jake Gyllenhaal
Ambulance | Review
Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop: Bays Busts the Panic Button in Rambunctious Heist Remake
For a director who cut his teeth in music videos, Michael...
Joe Bell | Review
Walking & Talking: Green Dons Didactic in Heartfelt, Sentimental Social Issue Drama
Representation of thought processes and progressive epiphanies are the necessary conjunction with diversity,...
The Devil All the Time | Review
Devil May Care: Campos Composes Heady Southern Gothic
For his fourth feature film The Devil All the Time, based on the 2011 novel by Donald...
Relic | Review
Dementia Seed: James Concocts Brooding Debut of Intergenerational Horror
A growing influx of low-fi genre films, many directed by women, have steadily redefined broad categorizations...
2020 Sundance Film Festival: Justin Simien’s Bad Hair, David Bruckner’s The Night House & Bill Benz’s The Nowhere Inn in Midnight Section
Last year's Midnight section gave us Greener Grass, The Lodge and Sweetheart. In 2020, it appears that the section is more "worldly" with four...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Independent Films of 2019: #5. Antonio Campos’ The Devil All The Time
The Devil All The Time
Among the top film news items spilling out of the frenzied Toronto Intl. Film Festival was the significant packaging to...
Top 50 Most Anticipated American Independent Films of 2019: #44. Dan Gilroy’s Velvet Buzzsaw
Velvet Buzzsaw
We weren't fans of his overwrought clunker sophomore film Roman J. Israel, Esq., so we're hopeful that a reunion with Jake Gyllenhaal might...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #59. Untitled Dan Gilroy Project
Over-reaching, sloppy and dull, Roman J. Israel, Esq. came as a surprise to us --- frankly it was one of the worst films to...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #85. Paul Dano’s Wildlife
Wildlife
We've been charting his perfs well before the likes of Reichardt and PTA brought him in as a supporting character, Paul Dano who has...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2018: #24. Jacques Audiard’s The Sisters Brothers
The Sisters Brothers
One of 2018’s most highly anticipated items is Jacques Audiard’s English language debut The Sisters Brothers, his first project since winning the...
Sundance ’18: Morano, Silva, Akhavan & Boots Riley Among U.S. Dramatic Comp Selections
Last year's section of sixteen included such gems as Beach Rats (Directing Award), Brigsby Bear, Ingrid Goes West (Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award), Golden Exits...
2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Paul Dano’s Wildlife
Once all the "dust" settled from the Venice and TIFF program announcements, the 2017 film festival calendar hourglass pretty much confirmed that Paul Dano's...
Life | Blu-ray Review
Daniel Espinosa’s blatant Alien carbon copy Life may have received overwhelmingly mixed reviews, but the sixty million budget endeavor ended up taking in just...
Life | Review
In Space No One Can See You Steal: Espinosa Imitates another Celluloid Form
The vastness of space and the limitlessness of the universe are abstract,...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2017: #6. Bong Joon-ho’s Okja
Okja
Director: Bong Joon-ho
Writer: Bong Joon-ho, Jon Ronson
Fans of South Korean auteur Bong Joon-Ho’s 2013 English language debut Snowpiercer will most likely be excited to...
Through the Looking-Glass…Top 200 Most Anticipated Films of 2017: #7. Bong Joon-Ho’s Okja
Okja
Director: Bong Joon-Ho
Writer: Bong Joon-Ho
Fans of South Korean auteur Bong Joon-Ho’s 2013 English language debut Snowpiercer will most likely be excited to learn he’s...
Southpaw | Review
My Left Fist: Fuqua’s Sports Drama a Familiar, Emotionally Charged Comeback
After another recent dalliance in action genre schlock, director Antoine Fuqua returns with the...
Nightcrawler | Review
While the City Sleeps: Gyllenhaal Gets His Money Shot in Gilroy’s Debut
You’ll be hard pressed to find a more enjoyably witty criticism of modern...
Enemy | Review
Identical/Identity: Villeneuve's Doppelganger Thriller a Kafkaesque Dead Ringer
You can forget the pulpy throes of the dark hearted Prisoners, the recently released collaboration of Jake...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Films for 2014: #162. Dan Gilroy’s Nightcrawler
Nightcrawler
Director: Dan Gilroy
Writer: Dan Gilroy
Producers: Michel Litvak, David Lancaster, Jake Gyllenhaal, Jennifer Fox, Tony Gilroy
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available
Cast: Jake Gyllenhaal, Rene Russo, Bill Paxton,...
