Tag: Michael Kenneth Williams

2022 Sundance Film Festival: Riley Stearns, Nikyatu Jusu, Mariama Diallo, Cooper Raiff & Bradley Rust Gray in the U.S. Dramatic Comp Section

In 2022, ten lucky titles/filmmakers will be vying for the big daddy prize of them all in the Sundance Film Festival's Grand Jury Prize...

Arkansas | Review

Deal of Fortune: Duke Attempts Neo-noir in Passionless Debut Drug running is generally an unromantic career choice, at least up until the inevitable thrills to...

The Gambler | Review

Kens and Dolls: Wyatt Revamps Toback Prose for the Plastic Age Working steadfastly against the success of Rupert Wyatt’s up-do of The Gambler, which was...

2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Tim Blake Nelson’s Anesthesia

While TIFF has become film premiere terrain for his last director outings (the horribly timed post 9/11 released The Grey Zone and 2009's Leaves...

Kill the Messenger | Review

Crack is Whack: Cuesta Revisits Contras Affair as Political Thriller Though he has several films under his belt, director Michael Cuesta has probably made more...

Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2013: #15. Steve McQueen’s Twelve Years a Slave

Twelve Years a Slave Director: Steve McQueen Writer(s): McQueen & John Ridley Producer(s): Anthony Katagas, Brad Pitt U.S. Distributor: Rights Available Cast: Benedict Cumberbatch, Brad Pitt, Michael Fassbender, Paul...

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La petite dernière (The Little Sister) | Review

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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.