Tag: Nate Bolotin
2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Flying Lotus’ Ash
The headlines for when his debut film dropped in Park City were the numerous walkouts (less than 1 percent of the audience to be...
BlackBerry | Review
Hold the Phone: Johnson Delivers the Ballad of the BlackBerry
Exposing the accidental alchemy which generated the titular BlackBerry, the world’s first Smartphone (and as...
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...
Stowaway [Video Review]
Every Breath You Take: Penna Ponders Morality in Jittery Space Odyssey
“In space, no one can hear you scream,” a foreboding tagline of another sci-fi...
Prisoners of the Ghostland | 2021 Sundance Film Festival Review
Alas, Poor Yorick: Sono’s English Language Debut a Fallow, Gonzo Spectacle
What happens when a cult actor meets a cult filmmaker? Well, sometimes they just...
Synchronic [Video Review]
E.M.Time Machine: Benson & Moorhead Do the Time Warp Again
Designer drugs prove to be a mystical gateway to the past in Synchronic, the fourth...
Cut Throat City | Review
Yolo in NOLA: RZA Battles Corruption Post-Katrina in Stifled Neo-Noir
The multi-faceted artist RZA returns to the director’s seat for the third time with Cut...
You Don’t Nomi | Review
Eyes Without Versace: McHale Explores the Cult of Camp with Doc Debut
What constitutes camp and how it can be created has long been an...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #81. Panos Cosmatos’ Mandy
Mandy
Canadian helmer Panos Cosmatos found a lot of fanfare stateside for his debut film in 2010’s Beyond the Black Rainbow, so naturally the XYZ...
2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Panos Cosmatos’ Mandy
Assuredly becoming a hot ticket director with the launch of 2010's Beyond the Black Rainbow - a debut film we called "a nightmarish world...
2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Gareth Evans’ Apostle
A bromance between the festival and this Welsh started back when The Raid: Redemption received it U.S. premiere during the 2012 edition. Sundance has...
2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Gareth Evans’ The Raid 2
It's a major vote of confidence when a festival, such as Sundance, happens to be filled almost exclusively by world premieres and then allows...
