Tag: Jillian Longnecker

Kajillionaire | Review

Money Monsters: July Returns with Poignant Puzzle of Curious Criminals Con artists come in all shapes and sizes, but nowhere are they as decidedly low...

Babak Anvari’s Wounds | 2019 Sundance Film Festival

Celebrated debut film Under the Shadow set in the war-torn Tehran of the 1980s has a lot of things going for it beyond the...

Where’d You Go, Bernadette? | Review

Fox and Her Friends: Linklater Falters on the Architecture of Blanchett in Bizarre, Uneven Dramedy The boldest move made by Richard Linklater in his latest...

Top 100 Most Anticipated American Independent Films of 2019: #25. Babak Anvari’s Wounds

Wounds Babak Anvari's Sundance break out debut in 2016's Under the Shadow solidified his standing within the genre, and so it was no surprise that...

If Beale Street Could Talk | Review

I Can Feel the Beale: Jenkins Does Justice to Classic Baldwin Novel Following his history making Best Picture winner Moonlight, stakes are set high for...

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La petite dernière (The Little Sister) | Review

The Lost Daughter: Herzi Passes Up Potency in Standard...

Interview: Marjane Satrapi & Vincent Paronnaud – Persepolis

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.

Interview: Eivind Landsvik – Low Expectations | 2026 Cannes Film Festival

Exploring themes of mental health, emotional recovery, companionship, and...