Tag: Michael Abels

Hope | 2026 Cannes Film Festival Review

Monster Squad: Hong-jin Goes Full-Blown Extraterrestrial For his fourth feature, South Korean director Na Hong-jin goes for breakneck, relentless mayhem in the curiously titled Hope....

Nope | Review

Goodbye, Horses: Peele Elevates Creature Feature in Nostalgia Tinged Horror Jordan Peele continues his distinctive mixture of mainstream aesthetics and unconventional tangential elements with his...

Bad Education | Review

A Touch of Class: Finley Explores Famed Embezzlement Scandal Director Cory Finley revisits one of the education system’s most notorious scandals in Bad Education, an...

Us | Review

Seeing Double: Peele Turns his Camera on Us In the best possible way, Us feels like a Jordan Peele movie -- his sophomore feature offers...

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Interview: Marjane Satrapi & Vincent Paronnaud – Persepolis

The thrill of meeting Marjane Satrapi reminded me of being 6 years old at Disney Land when I met the living, breathing Cinderella. Except Cinderella was an actress with a blond wig and Marjane is the real woman behind her autobiographical graphic novel, turned movie, “Persepolis”. The distinctive mole on her nose and her dark sultry eyes rose off the page and appeared in front of me, smoking and speaking with a French accent.

Interview: Eivind Landsvik – Low Expectations | 2026 Cannes Film Festival

Exploring themes of mental health, emotional recovery, companionship, and...

Interview: Sandra Wollner – Everytime | 2026 Cannes Film Festival

One of the discoveries of this year's Cannes Film...