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2022 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Richard Linklater’s Apollo 10½

We thought this might be ready on time for last year's fest (it's an animated film folks - always tough to predict) but Netflix...

2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Richard Linklater’s Apollo 10 1/2: A Space Age Adventure

Netflix decided to completely forgo the film festival circuit around the midway mark this year and so the big mystery question at this point...

I Used to Go Here | Review

Going, Going, Gone: Rey Finds Solace in Regression with Idle Dramedy As a framing device, nostalgia has the slant of a moral lesson gleaned from...

Greyhound | Review

Showboating: Schneider Sinks Ships with WWII Historical Action Cinema is littered with war-time submarine action epics, a claustrophobic setting which taps into universal anxieties and...

Best of Fest: Sundance 2014′s Top 10 New Faces

They range in age, amount of screen time, supporting or principle characters, and have previous (television work, stage and or bit parts in Hollywood/Indiewood...

Sundance 2014: Cutter Hodierne, Damien Chazelle, Kat Candler & Mona Fastvold Among Lucky 16 U.S. Dramatic Comp Selections

As I had predicted here, names such as Cutter Hodierne, Kat Candler, Maya Forbes, Mona Fastvold and Damien Chazelle would be among the invited...

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The Devils (1971) | Review

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Ken Russell’s The Devils – 2010 Fantasia International Film Festival

Iconic director Ken Russell was in town to receive a lifetime achievement award from Fantasia for his 50-plus years in the business, a career that has spawned many genre classics including Altered States, Gothic, and The Lair of the White Worm. But it was the little-seen and hard to find The Devils from 1971 that proved to be Russell's most controversial work, and Fantasia managed to snag a copy to be screened on Russell's big night. In the video, Russell discusses the true story behind the film and receives his award with the grace befitting one of the great filmmakers of all time.