Tag: Oliver Platt
2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Pamela Adlon’s Babes
Demonstrating our ability to achieve new levels of greatness in our "later" years, it would be fun to see sharp-witted Pamela Adlon hit Park...
Professor Marston and the Wonder Women | Review
Women Wanted: Robinson Explores the Fascinating Origins of Wonder Woman in Solid Biopic
Truth may often be stranger than fiction, but it’s not always as...
Rules Don’t Apply | Review
The Showgirl and the Driver: Beatty’s Romantic Reconstruction of Eccentric Entrepreneur’s Latter Days
Considering his iconic contributions and sterling reputation in cinema, breaking out over...
The 9th Life of Louis Drax | Review
One Life to Live: Aja’s Childhood Abuse Drama a Soapy Misstep
Once at the forefront of the French horror wave of the early to mid-2000s...
One More Time | Review
Begin Again: Edwards’ Satisfying Sophomore Film Utilizes Walken
Thanks to the overwhelming trend of quirk, cliché, or contrivance evident in most American indie offerings (whether...
2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Ido Fluk’s The Ticket
We got no qualms with being flat out wrong with our predictions set, but we're thinking we might sort of still be in the...
Bessie | Review
Lady Sings the Hues: Rees Returns to Resurrect the Star of Blues Singer
Many may not be immediately familiar with the name Bessie Smith, an...
Cut Bank | Review
The Postman Always Dies Twice: Shakman’s Noir Infused Debut Underwhelms
Seasoned television director Matt Shakman (“It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia”) makes his narrative feature debut...
Working Girl | Blu-ray Review
Arriving for the first time on Blu-ray is the 1988 classic gender politics rom-com Working Girl. Famous for giving us Melanie Griffith her most...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Ido Fluk’s The Ticket
With a small body of work including his low-budgeted directorial debut (Never Too Late) which orbited around the Fribourg and Edinburgh Film Festivals and garnered some...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Bobby Miller’s The Master Cleanse
After more than a decade of working in the short form (this includes the 2010 Sundance hit TUB - see below), Bobby Miller landed...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Dee Rees’ Bessie
While HBO Films have yet to date the TV movie (according to a recent interview they'd be aiming for early '15) they'd definitely use some...
A Merry Friggin’ Christmas | Review
Blight Christmas: Shapeero’s Debut is Not the Most Wonderful Time of the Year
There’s a reason why Tristram Shapeero’s film debut A Merry Friggin’ Christmas...
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...
Chef | Review
Mostly Favreau: Actor/Director’s Return to Indie Scene a Pleasant Surprise
A thinly veiled allegory for Jon Favreau’s own career, whether he consciously means it to...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Films for 2014: #100. Michael Cuesta’s Kill the Messenger
Kill the Messenger
Director: Michael Cuesta
Writer: Peter Landesman
Producers: Pamela Abdy, Naomi Despres, Jeremy Renner, Scott Stuber
U.S. Distributor: Focus Features
Cast: Jeremy Renner, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Michael...
