Tag: Joel Edgerton
2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: David Michôd’s Wizards!
Could David Michôd be returning to the fest where he launched Animal Kingdom back in 2010? Now that 2023 has come and gone, it's...
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...
Master Gardener | Review
That Shall He Also Reap: Schrader Sows the Seeds of Fate with Metaphorical Blossoms
The seeds of hate are sown the same as seeds of...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: David Lowery’s The Green Knight
Due to have been released just after it's launch at the SXSW film festival, A24 haven't been fleeing their fate with The Green Knight...
2018 TIFF: Saulnier, Lelio, Keshavarz, Sam Taylor-Johnson Plus Debuts From Minghella & Jonah Hill Stack SP & Galas
Wrapping up the selections for glitzy Galas and Special Presentations programmes (the break down is: 44 World Premieres, 9 International Premieres, 12 North American...
Red Sparrow | Review
Bird of Prey: Lawrence Tries a Red Scare with Gritty Espionage Thriller
Like the Marquis de Sade outfitted for a contemporaneous tangent of the...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #69. Joel Edgerton’s Boy Erased
Boy Erased
While we give the advantage Nash (Gringo is sitting in our #84 spot) in terms of who between the two has a better...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #84. Nash Edgerton’s Gringo
Gringo
He might have a background in back breaking stunt man work (more than two decades worth), but in our books, this Aussie's true vocation...
It Comes at Night | Review
Night of Your Life: Shults Plumbs Fear and Fear Itself in Arch Sophomore Effort
As a pure exercise in the powers of suggestion, It Comes...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Trey Edward Shults’ It Comes at Night
While luck and talent go hand in hand, you might want to ask Trey Edward Shults to pick out lottery numbers for all the...
Loving | Review
United States of Love: Nichols Falters with Hokey Prestige Picture
In 1967, the United States Supreme Court made a landmark civil rights decision with Loving...
Father Figure: Joel Edgerton is Patriarch in Trey Edwards Shults’ “It Comes At Night”
Deadline reports that recent Jeff Nichols' muse Joel Edgerton will topline Trey Edwards Shults' It Comes At Night, the psychological horror thriller that the A24...
2016 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 6: Jeff Nichols Has No Fear with “Loving”
We've been in full admiration of this American indie filmmaker ever since he broke out with Shotgun Stories (Berlin Film Fest) in 2007, and confirmed his...
Midnight Special | Review
The Power of One: Nichols’ Sci-Fi Studio Film a Wispy Homage
Indie director Jeff Nichols makes his first crossover to studio fare with Midnight Special,...
Life | DVD Review
A troubling hush seems to follow Anton Corbijn's fourth and least enthusiastically received Life, a snapshot on the short but intensely felt celebrity of...
Life | Review
Or Something Like It: Corbijn Resurrects Dean Without a Cause
Following his 2014 John Le Carre adaptation A Man Most Wanted, director Anton Corbijn delves...
2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Jeff Nichols’ Midnight Special
Sundance missed out on the opportunity to present Shotgun Stories (2007) to the world (Berlin landed the film instead) but made up for it...
The Gift | Blu-ray Review
One of the best surprises of 2015 thus far has been Joel Edgerton’s directorial debut, The Gift. The increasingly prolific actor somehow managed to...
The Gift | Review
Keep on Giving: Edgerton’s Debut a Surprisingly Adept Thriller
Actor Joel Edgerton makes his feature directorial debut with The Gift, an intelligent, enjoyably entertaining thriller...
Top 25 Most Anticipated Studio Films of 2015: #1. Jeff Nichols’ Midnight Special
Midnight Special
Director: Jeff Nichols // Writer: Jeff Nichols
Jeff Nichols has been a steadily rising director since his excellent 2007 debut, Shotgun Stories, which first...
Exodus: Gods and Kings | Review
Death on the Nile: Scott’s Biblical Epic Unworthy of the Gods
Arriving just in time for ritual slaughter is Ridley Scott’s update on the Moses...
Felony | Review
Patch of Blue: Saville’s Sophomore Film Lost in Endless Ellipses
For his first film since his 2007 feature debut Noise, Australian director Matthew Saville returns...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Films for 2014: #14. Ridley Scott’s Exodus
Exodus
Director: Ridley Scott
Writers: Bill Collage, Adam Cooper, Steve Zaillian
Producers: Peter Chernin, Mark Huffam, Michael Schaefer, Ridley Scott
U.S. Distributor: 20th Century Fox
Cast: Aaron Paul,...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Films for 2014: #30. Jeff Nichols’ Midnight Special
Midnight Special
Director: Jeff Nichols
Writer: Jeff Nichols
Producers: Sarah Green, Brian Kavanaugh-Jones
U.S. Distributor: Warner Bros.
Cast: Adam Driver, Kirsten Dunst, Joel Edgerton, Michael Shannon
Just as his filmmaker...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Films for 2014: #126. Gavin O’Connor’s Jane Got a Gun
Jane Got a Gun
Director: Gavin O'Connor
Writers: Brian Duffield, Anthony Tambakis
Producer: Chris Coen, Terry Dougas, Aleen Keshishian, Scott LaStaiti, Mary Regency Boies, Natalie Portman, Zack...
