Tag: Michael Smiley
The Silent Twins | Review
Sistas With(out) Voices: Smoczynska Revisits Case Study of Antisocial Twins
Poland’s Agnieszka Smoczynska makes her English language debut with third feature The Silent Twins, based...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2021: #94. Prano Bailey-Bond’s Censor
Censor
Welsh director Prano Bailey-Bond returns to genre for her directorial debut Censor, featuring Niamh Algar, Nicholas Burns, Vincent Franklin, Sophia La Porta, Adrian Schiller,...
Come to Daddy | Review
Father of Mine: Timpson Paints Pastiche with Peculiar Debut
While he assembles all the requisite elements for what promises to be a throwback to the...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2017: # 80. Emanuel Hoss-Desmarais’ Birthmarked
Birthmarked
Director: Emanuel Hoss-Desmarais
Writer: Marc Tulin
Quebecois anglo helmer Emanuel Hoss-Desmarais won Best New Narrative Director at the 2013 Tribeca Film Festival for his debut Whitewash starring...
Free Fire | 2016 BFI London Film Festival Review
Gunfight at Boston, MA: Wheatley’s Portrait of a Vicious Shootout
Massachusetts, 1970s. More precisely, the docks of Boston, where plans for a weapons trade at...
The Lobster | Review
Animal Farm: Lanthimos’ Dystopic Dip into RomCom
Greek auteur Yorgos Lanthimos makes an admirable English language debut with The Lobster, set within an original dystopic...
The Hallow | Blu-ray Review
Preceding its premiere in the Midnight program at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival was incredibly positive buzz surrounding Corin Hardy’s Ireland set horror film,...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2016: #39. Ben Wheatley’s Free Fire
Free Fire
Director: Ben Wheatley
Writers: Ben Wheatley, Amy Jump
British director Ben Wheatley returns with his sixth feature, Free Fire, after amassing a wildly popular following...
The Hallow | Review
Hollow’s Eve: Hardy’s Creature Feature Debut Has Superficial Roots
It was announced that Irish director Corin Hardy would be heading up The Crow reboot for...
2015 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 3: The Lobster Boils Over into Bunuelian Aura
Its much to early to crown him as the godfather of the Greek new wave, but there'll be mounds of further essays written on the tsunami-breaking...
For Those in Peril | Review
Fish Out of Water: Wright’s Debut a Visually Arresting, Moody Allegory
The mythological significance of the sea inflects and infects Paul Wright’s somber directorial debut,...
Get Him to the Greek; John C. Reilly Completes Lanthimos’ “The Lobster” Ensemble
Supporting players in John C. Reilly, Ashley Jensen, Michael Smiley and Jessica Barden are joining the already cast, diverse set of Colin Farrell, Rachel...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2013: #65. Ben Wheatley’s A Field in England
A Field in England
Director: Ben Wheatley
Writer(s): Wheatley & Amy Jump
Producer(s): Claire Jones, Andrew Starke
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available
Cast: Julian Barratt, Reece Shearsmith, Michael Smiley
In three...
