Tag: Riva Marker
For Better or Worse: Tessa Thompson Gets Hitched with Jonas Carpignano’s ‘A Separation’
For those who might not have caught wind of the news this past Monday, we finally have a new film project by auteur American...
Joe Bell | Review
Walking & Talking: Green Dons Didactic in Heartfelt, Sentimental Social Issue Drama
Representation of thought processes and progressive epiphanies are the necessary conjunction with diversity,...
The Devil All the Time | Review
Devil May Care: Campos Composes Heady Southern Gothic
For his fourth feature film The Devil All the Time, based on the 2011 novel by Donald...
Relic | Review
Dementia Seed: James Concocts Brooding Debut of Intergenerational Horror
A growing influx of low-fi genre films, many directed by women, have steadily redefined broad categorizations...
2020 Sundance Film Festival: Justin Simien’s Bad Hair, David Bruckner’s The Night House & Bill Benz’s The Nowhere Inn in Midnight Section
Last year's Midnight section gave us Greener Grass, The Lodge and Sweetheart. In 2020, it appears that the section is more "worldly" with four...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Independent Films of 2019: #5. Antonio Campos’ The Devil All The Time
The Devil All The Time
Among the top film news items spilling out of the frenzied Toronto Intl. Film Festival was the significant packaging to...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #85. Paul Dano’s Wildlife
Wildlife
We've been charting his perfs well before the likes of Reichardt and PTA brought him in as a supporting character, Paul Dano who has...
2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Paul Dano’s Wildlife
Once all the "dust" settled from the Venice and TIFF program announcements, the 2017 film festival calendar hourglass pretty much confirmed that Paul Dano's...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Cary Fukunaga’s Beasts of No Nation
The main title theme song for "True Detective" now comes to mind when I think of the unfairly talented Cary Fukunaga. A scheduled autumn...
2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Susanna Fogel’s Life Partners (Exclusive First Look!)
It's got the Sundance folk/system stacked in its corner. The Institute selected Life Partners for the January Screenwriters Lab ('12), gave it's producer a nudge...
