Tag: Jessica Chastain
Dreams | 2025 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
Magnificent Obsession: Franco Finds Love is a Hopeless Place
Michel Franco lassos Jessica Chastain into his continued class conflict examinations in Dreams, an intimate portrait...
Cheating Death: Michel Franco’s ‘Dreams’ Set for 2025 Major Film Fest Premiere
Despite having gone into production in the summer of 2023 (in Mexico City and San Francisco), Dreams was not a film that Michel Franco...
Memory | Review
Remembrance of Things Past: Franco Bargains for Benevolence in Purgative Love Story
“Memory is something so complex that no list of all its attributes could...
Interview: Michel Franco – Memory
Unwaveringly dedicated to a cinema of provocation, even if it may appear excessive to more sensitive viewers, auds at the Venice (and Toronto) Film...
2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Benoît Delhomme’s Mother’s Instinct
Another one of those titles that felt more than ready for a 2023 drop, that could be plopped a bit anywhere next year --...
2023 Marrakech Intl. Film Festival: Joanna Hogg, Dee Rees & Alexander Skarsgård Among Jury Duty Members
The Marrakech International Film Festival head juror Jessica Chastain will be joined by fellow thesps in actress Camille Cottin and actor Alexander Skarsgård, filmmaker-actress...
NYC Staycation: Jessica Chastain & Peter Sarsgaard in New Michel Franco Film
We learned that Cannes and Venice winning filmmaker Michel Franco was possibly circling the country of Poland for his next project. Well, the filmmaker...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2021: #46. John Michael McDonagh’s The Forgiven
The Forgiven
Produced by Elizabeth Eves, Nick Gordon, Trevor Matthews, John Michael McDonagh
Directed by John Michael McDonagh
Written by John Michael McDonagh
Starring: Jessica Chastain, Ralph Fiennes,...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Michael Showalter’s The Eyes of Tammy Faye
A Fox Searchlight project that has been fermenting for some time now and that got a firm greenlight October 2019 in Charlotte, North Carolina...
Salome (2013) & Wilde Salome (2011) | Review
Love’s Labours Found: Pacino’s Wilde Meditations at Long Last Find Life
Oscar Wilde’s 1891 tragedy Salome (originally written in French) has generated countless resurrections since...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2018: #69. Xavier Dolan’s The Death and Life of John F. Donovan
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...
Video: Aaron Sorkin’s Molly’s Game – 2017 TIFF Presentation
After Social Network, Moneyball, and Steve Jobs in the tens, Aaron Sorkin finally moves to the front of the camera with his directorial debut...
Video: Palme d’Or Jury – 2017 Cannes Film Festival
The final day of the Cannes Film Festival is one of trepidation and tremendous release - and I'd argue, that this applies to the...
The Zookeeper’s Wife | Blu-ray Review
Jessica Chastain and her furry co-stars are the only the real reason to experience Niki Caro’s high-profile adaptation of Diane Ackerman’s The Zookeeper’s Wife,...
The Zookeeper’s Wife | Review
My Antonina: Chastain Saves the Day in Glossy Holocaust Drama
As a byproduct of commodifying historical based cinema, we’ve become numb and desensitized to depictions...
Rachel Getting Unmarried: Patrick Brice Makes Cecily Strong a “Plus One”
A project that has surely and steadily building steam, now filled key the wing-girl role and has landed its director. Originally set up with...
The Huntsman: Winter’s War | Review
Sister, My Sister: Love is a Much Belabored Thing in Fairy Tale Pre/Sequel
While it certainly doesn’t reinvent the wheel (or, for that matter, capture...
Crimson Peak | Blu-ray Review
Unfortunately, Guillermo Del Toro’s original Gothic romance Crimson Peak didn’t translate to box office gold, netting thirty one million at the domestic box office...
Crimson Peak | Review
The Fall of the House of Cushing: Del Toro’s Haunted House Thriller Strangled by Frills
There’s much to admire within the crumbling facades of Guillermo...
The Martian| Review
Stranger in a Bland Land: Scott’s Toilsome Return to Space
Ridley Scott, who is on the same annual cinematic trajectory as Woody Allen when it...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2015: #15. Xavier Dolan’s The Death and Life of John F. Donovan
The Death and Life of John F. Donovan
Director: Xavier Dolan // Writer: Xavier Dolan
2014 marked an important year for the burgeoning auteur Xavier Dolan,...
A Most Violent Year | Review
Year of Living Stressfully: Chandor Returns with Slow-Boil Scald
Baby, it may be cold outside, but the climate’s sure changing in J.C. Chandor’s flashback to...
Miss Julie | Review
Touch of Class: Ullmann’s Update of Classic Text Ultimately Lifeless
There are a scant few equals to the texts of playwright August Strindberg’s, his 1888...
Interstellar | Review
Don’t Let’s Ask For the Moon: Nolan’s Space Opera for the Ages
At last divorcing himself from the omnipotent shadows of Batman, director Christopher Nolan’s...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Films for 2014: #112. J.C. Chandor’s A Most Violent Year
A Most Violent Year
Director: J.C. Chandor
Writer: J.C. Chandor
Producers: Before The Doors’ Neal Dodson, Washington Square Films’ Anna Gerb, J.C. Chandor
U.S. Distributor: A24
Cast: Jessica Chastain,...
Inside Cannes 2012 Day 4: Five Quotes from the Lawless Press Conference
1. "I actually play Scrabble". - Tom Hardy
What Tom Hardy does in between takes to prepare in order to be badass in his current...
