Tag: Richard McConnell
Needle in a Timestack | Review
Stye of the Needle: Ridley Can’t Thread Conceptual Sci-Fi
Time travel is tricky, especially when trying to effectively demonstrate its parameters and ramifications in narrative...
Those Who Wish Me Dead [Video Review]
The Fire This Time: Sheridan’s Neo-Western Arrives Lifeless, Overbaked
Casting is an important part of the filmmaking process, and sometimes the highest profile celebrity...
Monster [Video Review]
Fait Accompli: Mandler Mines the Gray Zone of Truth and Consequences
While more of an interesting conversation piece than the accomplished melodrama it deserves to...
Interview: Jeffrey Wright & A$AP Rocky – Anthony Mandler’s Monster
Acting mainstay Jeffrey Wright jumps between mainstream and indie productions like it’s his job. In fact, it is: Wright’s résumé includes Broadway (Angels in...
Interview: Kelvin Harrison Jr. – Anthony Mandler’s Monster
Kelvin Harrison Jr. first came to Sundance with Birth of a Nation in 2016, then Oscar-nominated Mudbound in 2017. This past year, he was...
Interview: Producers Tonya Lewis Lee, Nikki Silver, Mike Jackson, Daniel Crown & Yoni Liebling – Anthony Mandler’s Monster
Sundance ’18 crowd-favorite Monster tells the agonizing tale of a 17-year-old honors student in a racially-charged legal battle. Adapted from Walter Dean Meyers’ award-winning...
Pieces of a Woman | Review
Brink of Life: Mundruczó Hunts for the Grace in Grief with English Language Debut
One of Hungary’s most prolific arthouse auteurs of the last decade...
Greyhound | Review
Showboating: Schneider Sinks Ships with WWII Historical Action
Cinema is littered with war-time submarine action epics, a claustrophobic setting which taps into universal anxieties and...
2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Anthony Mandler’s Monster
A heavyweight music video helmer for close to two decades, Anthony Mandler's list of creds reads like Jack Kerouac's Famous 'On the Road' scroll....
