Tag: Mackenzie Davis
Swimming Home | 2024 International Film Festival Rotterdam Review
Marriage Story: Justin Anderson Serves Up An Enigmatic Challenge Is His Feature Debut
A marriage in crisis cooks under the summer sun in filmmaker Justin...
2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Justin Anderson’s Swimming Home
Our most anticipated feature debut films for this year is indeed ready but it'll be dropping in 2024 instead. Perhaps a fest that is...
2023 TIFF: Mackenzie Davis, Yann Demange, Ana Cristina Barragán & Cannes Winners Fill Short Cuts Programme
With only the Contemporary World Cinema and Wavelengths left on the scorecard, TIFF has now dropped the Short Cuts programme and we've got plenty...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #52. Justin Anderson’s Swimming Home
Swimming Home
In a surprising field of many first-time works on our list, this year's most anticipated directorial debut goes to commercials director Justin Anderson...
Happiest Season [Video Review]
Harper’s Bizarre: DuVall Reinvents the Queerness of Holiday Traditions
Across a wide variety of genres and narratives, going home for the holidays, and the intended...
Irresistible | Review
Elephant Walk: Stewart Dulls the Sting of Political Campaigning Hypocrisy with Broad Satire
The trick of a successful satire is to highlight stupidity or hypocrisy...
Tuesday Blus: Intermezzo, Blade Runner: 2049 & Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House
This week’s edition of Tuesday Blus includes the following titles:
Intermezzo (1939)
Film Review: ★★★/☆☆☆☆☆
Disc Review: ★★★/☆☆☆☆☆
It’s a tale as old as time, more vintage than...
Blade Runner 2049 | Review
A Time to Brood: Villeneuve Delivers Sleek, Stylized Mood Noir with Sci-Fi Sequel
Do androids dream of electric sheep? It’s a question never completely answered,...
Always Shine | Review
All About Actresses: Takal’s Flavorful Psychodrama Treads Familiar Territory
As she conveyed in her 2011 debut feature Green, Sophia Takal has a particular interest in...
The Martian| Review
Stranger in a Bland Land: Scott’s Toilsome Return to Space
Ridley Scott, who is on the same annual cinematic trajectory as Woody Allen when it...
What If | Review
The C Word: Dowse’s Latest a Joy Despite Censor Scramble
Don’t let the marketing snafu and the hopelessly generic title fool you into thinking...
Best of Fest: Sundance 2013’s Top 10 New Faces
It was a longer process than we had anticipated, but post Sundance, Jordan M. Smith, Nicholas Bell and I weighed in on the best...