Tag: Jordan Vogt-Roberts

Kong: Skull Island | Review

Kong’s Crib: Vogt-Roberts Strains Weak Characters Through Special Effects Pageant In the continuing tradition of flinging fledgling indie directors into studio tent pole franchise reboots,...

Through the Looking-Glass…Top 200 Most Anticipated Films of 2017: An Introduction

As we were putting together our projections for most anticipated films due in 2017, we noticed there were too many notable titles to be...

Sundance 2014: Colangelo, Shelton, Corbijn, Winterbottom, Araki & Gareth Evans Among 16 V.I.Ps

The Sundance Film Festival made their final feature film line-ups with the Premieres category announcements. Sixteen films with huge name talent, returnee filmmakers and...

The Kings of Summer | Review

Stand By Me: Vogt-Roberts Recalls the Boys of Summer with Enjoyable Debut Creator and director of the Comedy Central series Mash-Up, Jordan Vogt-Roberts manages to...

Best of Fest: Sundance 2013’s Top 20 New Voices

Yesterday, Jordan M. Smith, Nicholas Bell and I highlighted our Top 10 New Faces (strictly in the acting domain) of 2013's Sundance Film Festival...

2013 Sundance Film Fest: David Lowery, Ryan Coogler, Dosunmu, Ponsoldt and Carruth Part of U.S. Dramatic Comp

2013's Sundance Film Fest sees a mix of returnees in Cherien Dabis, Lynn Shelton, Andrew Dosunmu, Shane Carruth (see Upstream Color pic below) and James Ponsoldt, a...

2013 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Jordan Vogt-Roberts’ Toy’s House

Jordan Vogt-Roberts' almost half-hour Successful Alcoholics (watch here) was among the crowd-pleasing short film hits of the 2010 edition of Sundance. Flash-forward to this...

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Interview: Xiaoxuan Jiang – To Kill a Mongolian Horse (Red Sea Intl. Film Festival)

Across the Mongolian steppe, a herdsman confronts climate change,...

Kraven the Hunter | Review

Snack Attack: Kraven The Hunter Is More Empty Calorie...

Interview: Mahdi Fleifel – To a Land Unknown (Red Sea Intl. Film Festival)

There is a lesson in determination to be found...

2025 Sundance: Hailey Gates, Katarina Zhu & Eva Victor in U.S. Dramatic Comp

Among the batch of ten 2025 U.S. Dramatic Competition...