Tag: Michael Bloom
Club Kid | 2026 London BFI Film Festival Review
Sex, Drugs & Unexpected Parenting: Firstman’s Debut Creates an Entirely New Space for the Coming-of-Age Genre
First influencer, then actor, now filmmaker—the pipeline is well...
The Debut | 2026 Toronto Intl. Film Festival Review
A Star Is Reborn: Julianne Moore Powers Jesse Eisenberg’s Latest With Peanuts & Monkey Blood
Dreams of stardom can strike like lightning at any time....
Infinity Pool | Review
The Dualists: Cronenberg Doubles Down on Class Cliches
“Sorrow is concealed in gilded places, and there’s no escaping it,” wrote Fyodor Dostoevsky in his...
Video Interview: Adam Leon – Italian Studies
NYC-based auteur Adam Leon brings high-profile talent and understated storytelling to Tribeca FF 2021 with Italian Studies, his third feature film. The indelible Vanessa...
Italian Studies | Review
Pieces of a Woman: Leon’s Latest Gets Lost in Own Identity Crisis
Somewhere along the various perambulations of its conflicted protagonist, Adam Leon’s Italian Studies...
All Cooped Up: Haley Bennett Reteams with Producer Mollye Asher on Jackie Polzin’s “Brood”
Some folks get into getting a dog bricklaying practice the idea of family before making kids and painting fences. But what if chickens became...
2022 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Nikyata Jusu’s Nanny
If you bump into Leonean-American filmmaker Nikyata Jusu make sure to ask for lottery numbers. The filmmaker has been riding on a wave of...
The Climb [Video Review]
Such Great Heights: Covino & Marvin Mine the Nexus of Toxic Friendships
Friendships between heterosexual men are already an anomaly in cinema, and representations are...
2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Tim Travers Hawkins’ XY Chelsea
We have screen treatments of Frank Serpico, Mark Felt, and Karen Silkwood, and in early 2018 we could have another (anti)hero on the silver...
2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Debra Granik’s My Abandonment
We likened her to Kelly Reichardt with a cinema that should sprout internationally and so we were genuinely surprised when she didn't drop into...
