Tag: Nicolas Cage
2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Oz Perkins’ Longlegs
A little bit of an oddball project that the folks at NEON would end up grabbing shortly after the film completed production in February...
Wishful Thinking: Casting Complete on Kristoffer Borgli’s “Dream Scenario”
Striking while the iron is hot helmer Kristoffer Borgli has found his co-lead and supporting players for his English language feature debut which appears...
The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent | Review
The Cage Bird Sings: Gormican Gifts Nic Cage Meta Fan Fiction in Jaunty Caper
Not since Spike Jonze’s send-up of John Malkovich’s pomposity in Being...
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...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Michael Sarnoski’s Pig
In early 2020, Neon purchased the rights to Gunda (the docu film) and Pig which had completed production in late December of 2019. Shot...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #41. Prisoners of the Ghostland – Sion Sono
Prisoners of the Ghostland
Despite being a perennial festival presence, some may be wondering what’s happened to Japanese provocateur Sion Sono, who usually has somewhere...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #6. Siberia – Abel Ferrara
Siberia
We’ve been waiting quite some time for the latest narrative feature from Abel Ferrara, who has been struggling to get financing for his project...
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...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #98. Paul Schrader’s Dark
What the Film Gods giveth and Film Gods taketh away simply doesn't apply here. In the new year, we might have not one, but...
Sundance ’18: Levinson, Cosmatos, Pesce & RKSS Bring Screams & Blood Curdling to the Midnight
Remarkably, this year's Midnight section has this in common: Sam Levinson, Panos Cosmatos, Nicolas Pesce (see pic above) and the team of Francois Simard,...
Criterion Collection: Rumble Fish | Blu-ray Review
The 1980s began roughly for Francis Ford Coppola, one of the most lionized American auteurs ever, whose streak of the 1970s was an unmitigated...
Through the Looking-Glass…Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2018: #7. Abel Ferrara’s Siberia
Siberia
Director: Abel Ferrara
Writer: Abel Ferrara
After a prolific return to form in 2014 with his Willem Dafoe starring Pasolini and one of the best films...
Army of One | Blu-ray Review
As an exercise in the wrong way to formulate satire comes Larry Charles with his latest film, Army of One, a reenactment of media...
Dog Eat Dog | Review
Hot in Cleveland: Schrader Returns with Gritty, Entertaining Crime Drama
The dog days aren’t over, or so it would seem in director Paul Schrader’s glorious...
Pay the Ghost | Review
All Sallow’s Eve: Edel Gets Stuck in the Cage
For those who had a modicum of hope that German director’s Uli Edel's Canadian production of...
Left Behind | Review
Growing Pains: Armstrong’s Re-hash of Christian Agenda Hardly Rapturous
The end of times is here again with Left Behind, heralded by the presence of Nicolas...
Rage | Review
Cage Against the Machine: Cabezas’ English Debut Labors Through Borrowed Themes
Playing like the cheap echo of David Cronenberg’s A History of Violence, director Paco...
