Tag: Judy Greer

Halloween Kills | Review

Boogeyman Nights: Green Overextends Himself in the Myers Saga There is truth in having too much of a good thing, or, rather, adhering to the...

Valley Girl | Review

A Boho in Noho: Goldenberg Slathers a Classic in Nostalgic Reminisces Feeling nostalgic is akin to wearing rose-color glasses, distorting our tender reminiscing of bygone...

2020 Sundance Film Festival: Miranda July, Julie Taymor, Dee Rees & Sean Durkin in the Premieres Section

The most acquisitions and distributor launch-pad friendly section of the festival, the Premieres category had some big ticket items in Nisha Ganatra's Late Night,...

2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #97. & #98. Richard Linklater – Where’d You Go, Bernadette & Untitled Moon Landing Project

In an almost film per eighteen months pace, Richard Linklater might have not one, but two features released in 2019....and perhaps the filmmaker will...

Halloween | Review

To Grandmother’s House We Go: Green Succeeds with Obedient Resurrection of the Carpenter Classic The original tagline for John Carpenter’s 1978 horror classic Halloween, which...

The 15:17 to Paris | Review

Terror Train: Eastwood Monotonously Mulls an Act of Heroism in Failed Experiment For evidence of why narrative filmmaking is generally assisted by the designation of...

Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #30. Richard Linklater’s Where’d You Go, Bernadette

Where’d You Go, Bernadette About to enter his third decade in filmmaking and currently on a 3-for-3 streak with Everybody Wants Some!! (2016) and Last...

Interview: Janicza Bravo & Brett Gelman (Lemon)

I've been a fan of her work since being exposed to her gleefully sardonic award-winning short film Gregory Go Boom at Sundance back in 2014....

Video: Janicza Bravo’s Lemon – 2017 Sundance Film Fest Post Screening Q&A

“We wrote it together and we ....share a bed.” – Janicza Bravo Creative partners in crime and the most fashionable "it" couple I ran into...

2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Craig Johnson’s Wilson

Now pegged with a March 24th date via Fox Searchlight, despite it not being an acquisitions title, Craig Johnson's Wilson could still land in...

2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Janicza Bravo’s Lemon

She's been a botany of flourishingly unique pieces of art (we discovered her with her award-winning short) and the Sundance have been the lucky...

2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Craig Johnson’s Wilson

The work of Daniel Clowes already has a lineage with the Sundance Film Festival as it once served as the launchpad for the last "Clowes" graphic...

Addicted to Fresno | Review

But I’m a Sex Addict: Babbitt Returns to Dark Comedy with Mixed Results Though the film rests rather comfortably on the shoulders of its talented...

Grandma | Review

Citizen Lily: Weitz’s Character Study Homage to Iconic Lead Since beginning his directorial career with 1999’s American Pie, Paul Weitz has hovered in an in-between...

Ant-Man | Review

Can’t-Man: Reed’s Marvel Entry Positions Rudd as Dubious Franchise Tangent Evidence of Marvel’s continuing imperviousness to even the most promising of fashionable script doctors is...

Jurassic World | Review

Nice Splice: Narrative Hasn’t Evolved in Trevorrow’s Dino Reboot If there’s one aspect depicting the fickle nature of the human consumer the latest chapter in...

Men, Women & Children | Review

I Tumblr For You; The Kids Aren't Alright in Reitman's Latest Parents and their burgeoning teenagers battle their insecurities and repressed sexuality amidst ever present technology...

Interview: Carter Smith – Jamie Marks is Dead

At the 2014 Sundance Film Festival, we sat down with director Carter Smith to discuss his new film, Jamie Marks is Dead, which played...

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes | Review

Monkey Trouble: Reeves Get a Crack at Famed Cinematic Simian Franchise It’s kind of wild to think how much cinematic mileage (now eight films and...

Top 200 Most Anticipated Films for 2014: #78. Carter Smith’s Jamie Marks Is Dead

Jamie Marks Is Dead Director: Carter Smith Writer: Carter Smith Producers: Alex Orlovsky, Hunter Gray, Jacob Jaffke, Omri Bezalel, Carter Smith U.S. Distributor: Rights Available Cast: Cameron Monaghan, Noah...

Top 200 Most Anticipated Films for 2014: #159. Jason Reitman’s Men, Women & Children

Men, Women & Children Director: Jason Reitman Writer(s): Jason Reitman, Erin Cressida Wilson Producers: Right of Way Films' Helen Estabrook & Reitman U.S. Distributor: Paramount Pictures Cast: Adam Sandler,...

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...

2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Carter Smith’s Jamie Marks Is Dead

While The Ruins, his feature debut, didn't open up the opportunities for this all-in-one talent pool, the best item to come out of Sundance...

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