Tag: Kevin Turen
MaXXXine | Review
A Touch of Minx: West Concludes Ersatz ‘Trilogy’ with a Moan
It’s an impressive endeavor to unleash three consecutive, thematically related films within the span...
2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Untitled Trey Edward Shults Film with The Weeknd
After Krisha (2015), It Comes at Night (2017) and Waves (2019), American indie filmmaker Trey Edward Shults might actually be shooting from both sides...
2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Ti West’s MaXXXine
Sundance and SXSW programmers might be duking it out for the final part in Ti West's trilogy. Critically acclaimed horror films X (2022 -...
The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent | Review
The Cage Bird Sings: Gormican Gifts Nic Cage Meta Fan Fiction in Jaunty Caper
Not since Spike Jonze’s send-up of John Malkovich’s pomposity in Being...
X | Review
The Pornographer Always Shoots Twice: West Taps into Grindhouse Sleaze with Backwoods Romp
It was Foucault, proponent of classifying the orgasm as a ‘little death,’...
2022 Sundance Film Festival: Phyllis Nagy, Lena Dunham, Jesse Eisenberg, John Patton Ford & Hazanavicius Fill Premieres Section
In the Premieres section you'll usually find a mix of studio unveilings and high profile acquisitions titles and in the almost equal split between...
2022 Sundance Film Festival: Riley Stearns, Nikyatu Jusu, Mariama Diallo, Cooper Raiff & Bradley Rust Gray in the U.S. Dramatic Comp Section
In 2022, ten lucky titles/filmmakers will be vying for the big daddy prize of them all in the Sundance Film Festival's Grand Jury Prize...
2022 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Ti West’s X
A filmmaker more synonymous with the horror genre (he did however try out Western), and a regular on the film festival circuit mostly South...
2022 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Lena Dunham’s Sharp Stick
Lena Dunham is sure making up for her lack of feature film output with not one, but two films in post production. She has...
Antlers | Review
The Killing of a Sacred Deer: Cooper Wanders Unevenly into Indigenous Lore
Director Scott Cooper moves beyond the comfort of his melodramatic roots with Antlers,...
Those Who Wish Me Dead [Video Review]
The Fire This Time: Sheridan’s Neo-Western Arrives Lifeless, Overbaked
Casting is an important part of the filmmaking process, and sometimes the highest profile celebrity...
Malcolm & Marie | Review
Charge of the Gaslight Brigade: Levinson Gilds the Surface of Solipsism in Schizophrenic Drama
There’s really nothing black and white about the revolving histrionics between...
Pieces of a Woman | Review
Brink of Life: Mundruczó Hunts for the Grace in Grief with English Language Debut
One of Hungary’s most prolific arthouse auteurs of the last decade...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Sam Levinson’s Malcolm & Marie
With the switch in Academy Award dates for 2021, many were suggesting that February was the "new" December and that a fest like Sundance...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #57. Pieces of a Woman – Kornél Mundruczó
Pieces of a Woman
Hungarian auteur Kornél Mundruczó will make his English language debut in 2020 with the Canadian production Pieces of a Woman, which...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Independent Films of 2019: #31. Trey Edward Shults’ Waves
Waves
Rapidly transitioning from sophomore film club and into production with his third oeuvre, Trey Edward Shults was the talk of the town with his award...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #95. Trey Edward Shults – Waves
Trey Edward Shults blasted onto the scene with his award winning SXSW, Cannes debut Krisha (2015) which was followed up with It Comes at...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #76. Sam Levinson’s Assassination Nation
Assassination Nation
Sam Levinson offered us one of the best films of 2011 with his directorial debut --- we called it “a bitter, nasty, angry film about...
2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Sam Levinson’s Assassination Nation
It's been a long seven years between features for Sam Levinson. Having started his film career with one of the best films from 2011...
99 Homes | Review
Housing Complex: Bahrani Extends Capitalism Criticism to Housing Market
Though his 2012 farming melodrama At Any Price found director Ramin Bahrani gaining wider visibility with...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Andrew Renzi’s Franny
Moving from producer hat-wearing days (Afterschool, Two Gates of Sleep) to firmly stippling Park City with a metaphysical, deeply humane and serene portraits The Fort (2012) and Karaoke! (2013),...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Films for 2014: #85. Andrew Renzi’s Franny
Franny
Director: Andrew Renzi
Writer: Andrew Renzi
Producers: Treehouse Pictures’ Justin Nappi and Kevin Turen, TideRock Media’s Thomas B Fore and Jason Michael Berman, Big Shoes Media’s...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Films for 2014: #87. Ramin Bahrani’s 99 Homes
99 Homes
Director: Ramin Bahrani
Writers: Ramin Bahrani, Amir Naderi, Bahareh Azimi‐Khoie
Producer(s): Ashok Amritraj (see pic above), Ramin Bahrani, Andrew Garfield, Justin Nappi, Kevin Turen
U.S. Distributor:...
