Tag: Margot Robbie
2024 Sundance: A Different Man, The Outrun, Winner & Sasquatch Sunset Among Premieres
Sundance Film Festival's Premiere section (a mix of fiction and docs) will have some biggie titles to contend with the likes of Aaron Schimberg's...
Wes Anderson’s Asteroid City – 2023 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 7
Technically speaking the great American filmmaker Wes Anderson has now appeared in the Cannes competition with three titles - opening the '12 edition with...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #27. Emerald Fennell’s Saltburn
Saltburn
Our take on Promising Young Woman - it was a monumental piece of cinema and was released in the perfect context. Hence Amazon comes...
Babylon [Video Review]
Something to Talkie About: Chazelle Swings Hard with Homage to Hollywood’s Unruly Infancy
If there’s a film deserving of the Leone-esque moniker Once Upon a...
Promising Young Woman [Video Review]
If There Be Scorn: Fennell’s Debut a Stellar Portrait of Rape Trauma’s Rippling Effects
Heretofore, the rape revenge thriller has been something of a problematic...
Interview: Miles Joris-Peyrafitte – Dreamland
At age 23, Miles Joris-Peyrafitte won a Sundance Special Jury Prize for his first feature film, As You Are. Set in his Albany NY...
Bombshell | Review
All the Network Allows: Roach Gets Righteous with Topical Melodrama
They’re mad as hell and they just might not take it anymore. So could...
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,...
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood | Review
California Dreamin’: Tarantino Dons Nostalgic Pastiche of Doomed Decadence
The lurid fascination and mildewed devotion for the transitional glory days of late 1960s Hollywood, informed...
Top 50 Most Anticipated American Independent Films of 2019: #43. Jay Roach’s Fair and Balanced
Fair and Balanced
In a project that will carry a heavier price tag than Trumbo (read review), while we normally don't associate him with American indie,...
Mary Queen of Scots | Review
Two Queens Stand Before Me: Rourke’s Reticent Recapitulation of a Doomed Queen
Not since Charles Jarrott’s 1971 mounting of the infamous demise of Mary Stuart,...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #21. Miles Joris-Peyrafitte – Dreamland
Miles Joris-Peyrafitte could make it 2-for-2 in Park City with his sophomore feature film, Dreamland. Winner of a Special Jury Prize in 2016 when...
2018 Indie Spirit Noms: Guadagnino’s “Call Me by Your Name” Leads Pack with 6, Benny Safdie Lands 3
It's the head-scratching nominations process where Greta Gerwig's Lady Bird is good enough for the Best Feature category and picks up four nominations in...
Guess Who’s Coming to the Awards Dinner? Jordan Peele’s “Get Out” Leads 2017 Gotham Award Noms
Today's Gotham Awards nominees announcement proves that the film's themselves have their own against all odds narratives. With the five noms for the Best...
Suicide Squad | Review
Monsters, Inc.: Ayer’s DC Comic Mashup is All Bark and No Bite
Try as he might, director David Ayer’s valiant efforts to counter the onslaught...
The Legend of Tarzan | Review
Monkey See, Monkey Do: Seditious Subtexts of the White Savior in Latest Tarzan Adaptation
Certain properties are best left alone, allowed to exist in the...
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot | Review
Where They From: Ficarra & Requa and the Privileged Perspective
Cinematic depictions of the ongoing conflict(s) in the Middle East continue to be a touchy...
Z for Zachariah | Review
This is the End: Zobel’s Post-Apocalyptic Love Triangle
Following the success of his galvanizingly uncomfortable 2012 film Compliance, director Craig Zobel teases his way into...
Focus | Review
The Grift of Love: Ficarra & Requa’s Perfunctory Take on the Art of the Con
Those hoping for a scintillating update on the con-artist sub-genre...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Craig Zobel’s Z for Zachariah
We can still feel the heat generated from Craig Zobel's Compliance. His sophomore film, which was made on a dime (his directorial debut Great World...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2013: #45. Martin Scorsese’s The Wolf of Wall Street
The Wolf of Wall Street
Director: Martin Scorsese
Writer(s): Terence Winter
Producer(s): Scorsese, Riza Aziz, Leonardo DiCaprio, Emma Tillinger Koskoff, Joey McFarland
U.S. Distributor: Paramount Pictures
Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio,...
