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Monster [Video Review]

Fait Accompli: Mandler Mines the Gray Zone of Truth and Consequences While more of an interesting conversation piece than the accomplished melodrama it deserves to...

Interview: Jeffrey Wright & A$AP Rocky – Anthony Mandler’s Monster

Acting mainstay Jeffrey Wright jumps between mainstream and indie productions like it’s his job. In fact, it is: Wright’s résumé includes Broadway (Angels in...

Interview: Kelvin Harrison Jr. – Anthony Mandler’s Monster

Kelvin Harrison Jr. first came to Sundance with Birth of a Nation in 2016, then Oscar-nominated Mudbound in 2017. This past year, he was...

Interview: Producers Tonya Lewis Lee, Nikki Silver, Mike Jackson, Daniel Crown & Yoni Liebling – Anthony Mandler’s Monster

Sundance ’18 crowd-favorite Monster tells the agonizing tale of a 17-year-old honors student in a racially-charged legal battle. Adapted from Walter Dean Meyers’ award-winning...

Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #87. Anthony Mandler’s Monster

Monster He might have been itching to direct a project as early as 2013 with the book to screen project of Tokyo Vice with Daniel Radcliffe, but...

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: Anthony Mandler’s Monster

A heavyweight music video helmer for close to two decades, Anthony Mandler's list of creds reads like Jack Kerouac's Famous 'On the Road' scroll....

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Sexual Healing: Spike Lee’s New Joint Aims to Anoint Provocateur Spike Lee continues to fling his ambition into surprising experimental formats and narratives. Following the...

Lullaby | Review

And Goodnight: Levitas’ Debut Works Too Hard for Genuine Catharsis Headlined by one of those casts that seems too good to be true, actor Andrew...

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