Tag: Melanie Lynskey
Don’t Look Up [Video Review]
When an astroid is on a flight path to annihilate the human species, neither the cooler heads or those in positions in power prevail....
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...
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...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Vincent Grashaw’s And Then I Go
As a producer for Evan Glodell's Bellflower, filmmaker Vincent Grashaw certainly knows what it takes to get into Sundance and perhaps banking on the...
Digging For Fire | Review
Dem Bones: Swanberg’s Mellow Examination of Married Life
A married couple’s weekend apart turns into the sort of mildly enterprising exploration of what happens when...
DuVall, Interrupted: Lynskey, Lyonne, Shawkat & Smulders Join Thesp’s Directorial Debut
While not all that unusual in a country such as France, we can add the name of Clea DuVall to the stream of under 40 actresses...
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: Joe Swanberg’s Happy Christmas
While Baumbach and Payne got conformable shooting in B&W (see Frances Ha, Nebraska), Joe Swanberg convinced swag-collecting thesps Anna Kendrick to reteam with him...
2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Angus MacLachlan’s Goodbye to All That
Technically part of the extended Sundance family when Junebug landed there in 2005, scribe Angus MacLachlan moved from screenwriting to full fledged filmmaker in...
