Tag: Richard Jenkins
Nightmare Alley [Video Review]
Guillermo Del Toro's latest might not feel like a major departure from his general reputation as a creature-centric creator type, but there is a...
The Humans [Video Review]
Premiering at the 2021 Toronto Intl. Film Festival, Lebanese-American playwright and screenwriter (The Seagull) Stephen Karam adapted his one act stage play for a...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Stephen Karam’s The Humans
Production on Stephen Karam's move into film directing via his own one-act play of the same name, the A24 folks got behind the project...
Kajillionaire | Review
Money Monsters: July Returns with Poignant Puzzle of Curious Criminals
Con artists come in all shapes and sizes, but nowhere are they as decidedly low...
The Last Shift | Review
Stuck in Neutral: Cohn Cooks Up Sensitive (and Hilarious) Fast Food Tragedy
Andrew Cohn delivers a heart-wrenching ode to the working class, missed connections and...
2020 Sundance Film Festival: Miranda July, Julie Taymor, Dee Rees & Sean Durkin in the Premieres Section
The most acquisitions and distributor launch-pad friendly section of the festival, the Premieres category had some big ticket items in Nisha Ganatra's Late Night,...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Independent Films of 2019: #7. Untitled Miranda July Project
Director, screenwriter, singer, actress, author, complete artist, app creator and probably a cat-sitter Miranda July hadn't made a feature since 2011's The Future, but I'd...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #91. Untitled Miranda July Crime Drama
We're not sure if the Madeline's Madeline experience put Miranda July into the let's make a movie spirit, but shortly after premiering last January...
The Shape of Water | Review
Creature from the Red Lagoon: Del Toro Gets Sentimental in Cold War Monster Drama
Monsters return as metaphors in Guillermo Del Toro’s latest, The Shape...
Bone Tomahawk | Review
Down to the Bone: Zahler’s Debut a Dapper Genre Hybrid
For his directorial debut, screenwriter S. Craig Zahler assembles an illustrious cast in Bone Tomahawk,...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: John Krasinski’s The Hollars
About a half-dozen years have passed since John Krasinski broke out behind the camera with his 80-minuter raining men oddity. The adaptation of David Foster Wallace's...
Lullaby | Review
And Goodnight: Levitas’ Debut Works Too Hard for Genuine Catharsis
Headlined by one of those casts that seems too good to be true, actor Andrew...
God’s Pocket | Review
Pocket Full of Sunshine: Slattery’s Debut Weak in the Knees
The devil’s not in all the details he should be of God’s Pocket, the directorial...
Sundance 2014: Cutter Hodierne, Damien Chazelle, Kat Candler & Mona Fastvold Among Lucky 16 U.S. Dramatic Comp Selections
As I had predicted here, names such as Cutter Hodierne, Kat Candler, Maya Forbes, Mona Fastvold and Damien Chazelle would be among the invited...
2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: John Slattery’s God’s Pocket
He traded on-set education on Mad Men and then cornered this project almost a decade earlier when he picked it up as a...