Tag: Ridley Scott

2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Michael Pearce’s Echo Valley

Although his breakthrough work was showcased in the Platform section at TIFF, the tension-filled whodunit Beast starring Jessie Buckley and Johnny Flynn actually managed...

Boston Strangler | Review

Thank You for Choking: Ruskin Explores the Sordid Politics Behind Infamous Serial Killing Case The tribulations of femininity in the fourth estate anchors Boston Strangler,...

House of Gucci [Video Review]

One of rare breed of studio directors who effectively captures pageantry and opulence no matter the epoque the narrative is set in, social...

2021 Venice Film Festival: Blonde is MIA, Franco’s Sundown, Vasyanovych’s Reflection, Frammartino’s The Hole, Larrain’s Spencer in COMP

While Netflix is present Andrew Dominik's Blonde and Claire Denis' Fire is nowhere to be found, the official selection for the 2021 edition of...

2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Ridley Scott & Kevin Macdonald’s Life In A Day 2020

And for our final item on our predictions list we have a documentary that is technically made a whole bunch of people. It's a...

Jungleland [Video Review]

In Like a Lion: Winkler Traces Boxer on the Struggle Bus in Familiar Melodrama If you’re going to San Francisco, there might not be anymore...

Scott Steers Through Stormy Weather in Tepid Family Action Film “White Squall” (1996) | Blu-ray Review

The 1990s were a troubling period for Ridley Scott. After starting off on a high note with the iconic melodrama Thelma & Louise (1991),...

IONCINEPHILE of the Month: Nia DaCosta – Ten Influential Films List

Have you ever wondered what are the films that inspire the next generation of visionary filmmakers? As part of our monthly IONCINEPHILE profile, Nia...

Top 50 Most Anticipated American Independent Films of 2019: #41. Wash Westmoreland’s The Earthquake Bird

The Earthquake Bird A book to film project that was assembled late in 2016 and that takes place in on the cusp of the 1990's...

All the Money in the World | Review

A Buck or a Pound: Greed is Good Cinema in Scott’s Perverse Portrait of Capitalist Dysfunction Perhaps it was ABBA, Sweden’s 1970s pop sensation,...

2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Drake Doremus’ Zoe

We've now arrived to our 75 prediction destination with this final item. A Sundance personality who over time, has developed his own cult following in...

Alien: Covenant | Review

This Time It’s More: Scott Repeats the Beats of Initial Sci-Fi Classic for Sequel Prequel There comes a time when too much tinkering with one...

The Conversation: One Never Cannes Tell (2017 Edition)

It’s hard to believe, but we’re about five weeks away from the unveiling of the 2017 Cannes Film Festival lineup. After several months of...

Through the Looking-Glass…Top 200 Most Anticipated Films of 2017: An Introduction

As we were putting together our projections for most anticipated films due in 2017, we noticed there were too many notable titles to be...

The Martian| Review

Stranger in a Bland Land: Scott’s Toilsome Return to Space Ridley Scott, who is on the same annual cinematic trajectory as Woody Allen when it...

Exodus: Gods and Kings | Review

Death on the Nile: Scott’s Biblical Epic Unworthy of the Gods Arriving just in time for ritual slaughter is Ridley Scott’s update on the Moses...

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...

Top 200 Most Anticipated Films for 2014: #14. Ridley Scott’s Exodus

Exodus Director: Ridley Scott Writers: Bill Collage, Adam Cooper, Steve Zaillian Producers: Peter Chernin, Mark Huffam, Michael Schaefer, Ridley Scott U.S. Distributor: 20th Century Fox Cast: Aaron Paul,...

Tracking Shot June: Steve McQueen, Jean-Pierre Jeunet and John Carney Filming New Projects

“Tracking Shot” is a monthly featurette here on IONCINEMA.com that looks at a dozen or so projects that are moments away from lensing and...

The Counselor | Review

Court Appointed: Scott’s Grand Mal Misfire Arriving with an unceremonious thud, Ridley Scott’s latest effort, The Counselor, a much anticipated adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s debut...

Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2013: #52. Zal Batmanglij’s The East

The East Director: Zal Batmanglij Writer(s): Batmanglif and Brit Marling Producer(s): Marling, Michael Costigan, Jocelyn Hayes, Ridley Scott, Tony Scott U.S. Distributor: Fox Searchlight Cast: Ellen Page, Alexander Skarsgård,...

Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2013: #90. Scott Cooper’s Out of the Furnace

Out of the Furnace Director: Scott Cooper Writer(s): Cooper and Brad Ingelsby Producer(s): Michael Costigan, Leonardo DiCaprio, Ryan Kavanaugh, Jennifer Davisson Killoran, Ridley Scott, Tony Scott, Brooklyn...

Top 200 Most Anticipated Films of 2013: Picks 200-101

Because, looking forward, 2013 promises to be such a fruitful cornucopia of cinema, we were excited to be able to easily list an additional...

Jordan M. Smith’s Top Ten Films of 2012: First-timer Helmers Rodney Ascher & Benh Zeitlin Crack Top 10 (Picks 10 to 6)

10. Beasts of the Southern Wild Another film I sorely missed in Park City, but finally caught during its theatrical release, Benh Zeitlin's full length...

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