Tag: Russell Ackerman

Seance [Video Review]

The Girlfriend Experience: Barrett Mines B-Movie Tropes in Hybrid Throwback There’s no greater hotbed of dysfunction and perversity than the homosocial staples of either the...

2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Simon Barrett’s Seance

A writer on horror items such as Horrible Way to Die (201), You're Next (2011), three segments in the V/H/S projects and another Adam...

Capone | Review

Gonzo Fonzo: Trank Returns with Tone Poem Portrait of a Monster The figure of Chicago mobster Al Capone has long been a mythical figure resurrected...

2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #27. Josh Trank – Fonzo

It's time to say goodbye to the De Niro Capone touch from The Untouchables. A meatier, bulkier project that would certainly rev up Sundance audiences,...

2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Jeremy Saulnier’s Hold the Dark

A filmmaker we've been keeping tabs on since the late naughts when his Slamdance/SXSW preemed 2007's Murder Party dropped, Jeremy Saulnier played a significant creative role with...

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Interview: Paul Mescal – Hamnet

It overpowered critics in Telluride, slayed Toronto audiences and...