Tag: Megan Ellison
Nightbitch | Review
All About My Mother: Amy Adams Goes to the Dogs In Marielle Heller’s Barking Mad Dramedy
“Motherhood is fucking brutal,” Amy Adams’ unnamed Mother seethes...
2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Marielle Heller’s Nightbitch
Marielle Heller broke out big at Sundance back in 2015 with coming-of-ager The Diary of a Teenage Girl - the pic received a lot...
House of Gucci [Video Review]
One of rare breed of studio directors who effectively captures pageantry and opulence no matter the epoque the narrative is set in, social...
Kajillionaire | Review
Money Monsters: July Returns with Poignant Puzzle of Curious Criminals
Con artists come in all shapes and sizes, but nowhere are they as decidedly low...
Babak Anvari’s Wounds | 2019 Sundance Film Festival
Celebrated debut film Under the Shadow set in the war-torn Tehran of the 1980s has a lot of things going for it beyond the...
Where’d You Go, Bernadette? | Review
Fox and Her Friends: Linklater Falters on the Architecture of Blanchett in Bizarre, Uneven Dramedy
The boldest move made by Richard Linklater in his latest...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Independent Films of 2019: #7. Untitled Miranda July Project
Director, screenwriter, singer, actress, author, complete artist, app creator and probably a cat-sitter Miranda July hadn't made a feature since 2011's The Future, but I'd...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Independent Films of 2019: #25. Babak Anvari’s Wounds
Wounds
Babak Anvari's Sundance break out debut in 2016's Under the Shadow solidified his standing within the genre, and so it was no surprise that...
If Beale Street Could Talk | Review
I Can Feel the Beale: Jenkins Does Justice to Classic Baldwin Novel
Following his history making Best Picture winner Moonlight, stakes are set high for...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #91. Untitled Miranda July Crime Drama
We're not sure if the Madeline's Madeline experience put Miranda July into the let's make a movie spirit, but shortly after premiering last January...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #85. Babak Anvari – Transgression
Another Sundance alumni who broke out big at the fest with Under the Shadow, Babak Anvari quickly lined up a pair of projects with...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #14. Olivia Wilde – Booksmart
After more than a decade in front of the camera, actress Olivia Wilde turned music video directing gigs of Red Hot Chili Peppers and...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #3. Barry Jenkins’ If Beale Street Could Talk
If Beale Street Could Talk
Film historians will likely do a poor job in describing the resounding support, everyone onboard and all-aboard of the Moonlight...
2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Todd Solondz’s Wiener-Dog
Of the seven feature films in his just under two decade filmography, Todd Solondz has landed in Park City twice with 1996's Welcome to...
2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Ana Lily Amirpour’s The Bad Batch
She became an instant rockstar when A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (a film that we'll affectionally look back at in two decades from...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Films for 2014: #44. Bennett Miller’s Foxcatcher
Foxcatcher
Director: Bennett Miller
Writers: Dan Futterman and E. Max Frye
Producers: Miller, Likely Story’s Anthony Bregman, Annapurna Pictures’ Megan Ellison, Jon Kilik
U.S. Distributor: Sony Pictures Classics
Cast:...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2013: #24. Bennett Miller’s Foxcatcher
Foxcatcher
Director: Bennett Miller
Writer(s): Dan Futterman and E. Max Frye
Producer(s): Miller, Likely Story's Anthony Bregman, Annapurna Pictures' Megan Ellison, Jon Kilik
U.S. Distributor: Columbia Pictures
Cast: Channing...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2013: #25. Spike Jonze’s Her
Her
Director/Writer: Spike Jonze
Producer(s): Annapurna Pictures' Megan Ellison, Vincent Landay
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available
Cast: Amy Adams, Olivia Wilde, Rooney Mara, Joaquin Phoenix, Samantha Morton, Sam Jaeger,...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2013: #47. David O. Russell’s American Bullshit
Director: David O. Russell
Writer(s): Eric Singer
Producer(s): Megan Ellison, Charles Roven, Richard Suckle
U.S. Distributor: Columbia Pictures
Cast: Christian Bale, Jeremy Renner, Amy Adams, Bradley Cooper
Eric Singer's...
