Tag: Olivia Wilde
Colonial Tensions: Olivia Wilde & Gael García Bernal Are Oblivious in Sarah Adina Smith’s ‘Monkey Hill’
Ever since breaking out twice with micro-indie The Midnight Swim and then with Buster's Mal Heart, filmmaker Sarah Adina Smith has been mixing it...
Babylon [Video Review]
Something to Talkie About: Chazelle Swings Hard with Homage to Hollywood’s Unruly Infancy
If there’s a film deserving of the Leone-esque moniker Once Upon a...
Don’t Worry Darling | Review
Die, Die, My Darling: Wilde Makes Utopia a Dirty Word in Sinister Thriller
“There’s beauty in control” affirms a suave Svengali at the center...
2022 Venice Film Festival: Alice Diop, Poitras, Panahi & Iñárritu Among Front-Runners for the Golden Lion!
With only one title left to be unveiled (for the time being, let's call it the August 30th pre-opener as it will be actually...
2022 Toronto Intl. Film Festival: 100 Predictions (Part I) Berger, Wilde, Mendes & Nattiv
As we enthusiastically await the make-up of the major fall film festivals there is one theory that is being advanced: the "Festival of Festivals"...
Richard Jewell | Video Review
The Secret in Their Lies: Eastwood Explores Media Martyrdom in Shallow Expose
To be certain, Richard Jewell, the latest offering from Clint Eastwood in his...
Top 3 Critics’ Picks in Theaters this May: The Souvenir, Too Late to Die Young & Booksmart
IONCINEMA.com’s Top 3 Critics’ Picks offers a curated approach to the usual quandary: what would you recommend I see in theaters this month? While...
2019 SXSW Film Fest Recap: Us, The Peanut Butter Falcon & Booksmart Lead Dylan Kai Dempsey’s Top 8
SXSW’s 2019 competition was dominated by talented women. Happily, this best-of-fest list contains several of their narrative achievements—plus two highly recommended out-of-competition docs. One...
Top 50 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2019: A Prelude
At the beginning of the year, we gave our readers an overview of the most anticipated foreign films for the new year (Top 150...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #14. Olivia Wilde – Booksmart
After more than a decade in front of the camera, actress Olivia Wilde turned music video directing gigs of Red Hot Chili Peppers and...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #57. Sarah Daggar-Nickson’s A Vigilante
A Vigilante
With a previous output of shorts in Dead Hands (2010) and The Light in the Night (2011), New York City based Sarah Daggar-Nickson's...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #74. Dan Fogelman’s Life Itself
Life Itself
With all the intersecting ensemble threads promised for his sophomore film, hopefully Dan Fogelman will better manage the puzzles pieces as we weren't...
2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Sarah Daggar-Nickson’s A Vigilante
Unless it's within the horror genre, revenge type films signed by female filmmakers are few and far between. For every Kill Bill, there are...
Meadowland | Review
Downward Slopes: Morano’s Debut of Downtrodden Beats
Cinematographer Reed Morano (The Skeleton Twins; Kill Your Darlings) makes her directorial debut with Meadowland, an increasingly cheerless...
IONCINEPHILE of the Month: Reed Morano (Meadowland)
IONCINEMA.com’s IONCINEPHILE of the Month feature focuses on an emerging filmmaker from the world of cinema....but we would be disingenuous in categorizing this month's...
The Lazarus Effect | Review
Death Becomes Her: Gelb’s B-Grade Horror Haunted By Its Own Ideas
With its absurd title, which recalls an era of enjoyable B-grade Sci-Fi/horror films from...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Reed Morano’s Meadowland
A staple of the Sundance Film Festival since Courtney Hunt's Frozen River in '08, her Park City premiered filmography as a cinematographer was followed by...
The Longest Week | Review
Arrested Development: Glanz’s Debut an Affluent Vacuum
For the most part, it’s an ingenious trick to fabricate an aura of empathy around a pool of...
Tracking Shot: Van Sant, Doremus, Guadagnino & Reed Morano Shooting This August
“Tracking Shot” is a monthly featurette here on IONCINEMA.com that looks at a dozen or so projects that are moments away from lensing (or...
Luke Wilson, Elisabeth Moss & Nathasha Lyonne Begin Healing Process in Morano’s “Meadowland”
Elisabeth Moss and Nathasha Lyonne are joining the already cast Olivia Wilde as the principle female players and Luke Wilson is re-teaming with The...
Third Person | Review
World Crash: Haggis Overextends His Usual Formula
Two’s company, three’s a crowd. Or so the saying goes. Further beating the interrelated/intersecting characters and multiple storyline...
2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: James Franco’s Black Dog, Red Dog
Not unlike Joseph Gordon-Levitt's rapport with the festival, Sundance has become a place where James Franco/RabbitBandini Productions gets to both test-drive and showcase his...
Drinking Buddies | Review
Supersize Me: Swanberg Remains Intimate Despite Bigger Budget
Harkening back to the studio system of the 1930s and 40s, the prolific writer/director Joe Swanberg has...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2013: #25. Spike Jonze’s Her
Her
Director/Writer: Spike Jonze
Producer(s): Annapurna Pictures' Megan Ellison, Vincent Landay
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available
Cast: Amy Adams, Olivia Wilde, Rooney Mara, Joaquin Phoenix, Samantha Morton, Sam Jaeger,...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2013: #56. Joe Swanberg’s Drinking Buddies
Drinking Buddies
Director/Writer: Joe Swanberg
Producer(s): Swanberg, Burn Later Productions’ Paul Bernon and Sam Slater, Andrea Roa (Sunlight Jr.) and Alicia Van Couvering (Nobody Walks)
U.S. Distributor:...
Olivia Wilde and Hailee Steinfeld are ‘Keeping Room’ for Daniel Barber to Direct
Harry Brown helmer Daniel Barber will begin lensing his sophomore feature early next year alongside a female-driven cast comprised of thesps Olivia Wilde, Hailee...
