Tag: James Badge Dale
2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Jeremy Saulnier’s Rebel Ridge
After Murder Party (2007), the Cannes Film Festival selected Blue Ruin (2013) and Green Room (2015) and TIFF selected Hold the Dark (2018), Jeremy...
Mickey and the Bear | Review
A Bear to Care: Attanasio Scores Modest, Sincere Debut
Although lacking in originality and narrative energy, director Annabelle Attanasio more often than not makes up...
Interview: Annabelle Attanasio – Mickey and the Bear
How does free will exist when moral responsibility, opportunity and happenstance constantly impede on an individual's further actions? Blending themes of attachment, addiction and...
The Kitchen | Review
The Kitchen, God’s Wife: Berloff Doesn’t Bring the Heat in Halting Melodrama
Hell may as yet have no fury like a woman scorned, but the...
Interview: Nia Dacosta – Little Woods
A New York-native, first time writer/director Nia DaCosta premiered her poignant family drama, Little Woods, on home turf at Tribeca 2018. Set in the...
Interview: Nia DaCosta – Little Woods | 2015 January Screenwriters Lab
Selected for the US Narrative Competition at the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival, we've been tracking Nia DaCosta's feature debut project since sitting down with...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #11. Tim Sutton’s Donnybrook
Donnybrook
With a film budget that likely surpassed the total coin amount of his first three films combined, Tim Sutton (a featured IONCINEPHILE alumn) moves into...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #14. Jeremy Saulnier’s Hold the Dark
Hold the Dark
Prior to launching into Season 3 of True Detective, it appeared that we would have had had the chance to see Jeremy...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #88. Nia DaCosta’s Little Woods
Little Woods
With POTUS45 somewhat peeved with it's neighbor to the north, Canada nonetheless remains a sanctuary and is more friend than foe especially when...
2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Nia DaCosta’s Little Woods
Possibly belonging to a Frozen River and Sin Nombre type of harrowing universe where there are no real alternatives, Nia DaCosta's directorial debut will...
2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Jeremy Saulnier’s Hold the Dark
A filmmaker we've been keeping tabs on since the late naughts when his Slamdance/SXSW preemed 2007's Murder Party dropped, Jeremy Saulnier played a significant creative role with...
The Walk | Review
Large Spectacle: Hollywood’s Answer to Petit’s Infamous Le Coup
A singular man with an impossible goal dealing with the ultimate stakes of life or death....
Miss Meadows | Review
A Spoonful of Violence: Hopkins’ Unbalanced Sophomore Effort
Actress turned screenwriter turned director Karen Leigh Hopkins unleashes her sophomore feature Miss Meadows after its premiere...
Stretch | Review
To Live and Drive in LA: Carnahan’s Trip into Hollyweird
In an unprecedented and surprisingly brusque move, Universal chose to dump Joe Carnahan’s latest film,...
