Tag: Ryan Coogler
Judas and the Black Messiah | Review
Only God Forgives: King Resurrects Fred Hampton in Significant, Unequivocal Portrait of Betrayal and Assassination
On December 4, 1969, Fred Hampton, chairman of the...
Black Panther | Review
Black Cat, Nine Lives: Coogler Clocks a Milestone with Exemplary Marvel
Rare is the opportunity to be surprised by anything studio related in mainstream American...
Top 25 Most Anticipated Studio Films of 2018: DuVernay, McQueen & Scorsese Top the List
Looking forward to the theatrical pleasures of 2018, the Hollywood studio system seems mostly a foregone conclusion save for a handful of items which...
Creed | Review
What’s in a Name?: Coogler’s Impressive Rocky Spinoff
After taking home the top prize at the Sundance Film Festival in 2013 with Fruitvale Station, director...
Ryan Coogler & Shaka King…..”Do The Right Thing”
Fruitvale Station's Ryan Coogler & Newlyweeds' Shaka King helmers are encouraging film fans to Do The Right Thing. As part of a day of...
Most Anticipated Films for 2015: An Overview
Last month, we unveiled our all-encompassing, most anticipated films for the current year in film. Now we peer into a future that is a...
Best of 2013: Jordan M. Smith’s Top 20 Films (Picks 20 to 16)
20. Fruitvale Station - Ryan Coogler
Sundance has left a lasting impression this year. Among the lucky few who attended the world premiere of Ryan...
Best of 2013: Nicholas Bell’s Top 10 Films (Picks 10 to 6)
Please note, the absence of titles like Spring Breakers, Paradise: Faith, Frances Ha, No, and The Place Beyond the Pines is due to the...
The Act of Killing, Fruitvale Station & Inside Llewyn Davis Top 2013 Gotham Awards
While technically this was Forest Whitaker's big night (Actor Tribute plus the weight he threw behind as a producer accolades for a small San...
2013 Gotham Award Noms: McQueen’s 12 Years A Slave Leads with Trio of Noms
Steve McQueen's 12 Years A Slave leads this years Gothams award noms with three, but well-received Sundance items in Blue Caprice, Concussion, Fruitvale Station,...
Indie Cred Leads to “Creed”; Coogler reteams with Michael B. Jordan to Bring Stallone’s Rocky Back into the Ring
Cue Bill Conti's infamous score. For the longest time we were wondering when this Sundance breakout was going to have his name attached to...
Interview: Ryan Coogler – Fruitvale Station
It’s how he presents his flawed characters and how he addresses certain social commentaries in his trio of short films (Locks, Gap, and Fig)...
IONCINEPHILE of the Month: Ryan Coogler (Fruitvale Station)
IONCINEMA.com’s IONCINEPHILE of the Month feature focuses on an emerging filmmaker from the world of cinema. This filmmaker’s feature debut won the Grand Jury...
2013’s Un Certain Regard Includes Plenty of Vets (Claire Denis, Rithy Panh, Rasoulof, Guiraudie, Abu-Assad) & Newbies too (Coogler)
2013's Un Certain Regard section carries a whopping five first time feature filmmakers that'll be measuring themselves up against auteur cinema heavyweights. While we...
2013 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Ryan Coogler’s Fruitvale
#40. Ryan Coogler's Fruitvale
Gist: From the Sundance guide: Oscar Grant was a 22-year-old Bay Area resident who loved his friends, was generous to strangers,...
Best of Fest: Sundance 2013’s Top 20 New Voices
Yesterday, Jordan M. Smith, Nicholas Bell and I highlighted our Top 10 New Faces (strictly in the acting domain) of 2013's Sundance Film Festival...
Best of Fest: Nicholas’ Top Five Films from the 2013 Sundance Film Festival
#5. Stoker
South Korean auteur Park Chan-wook makes his English language debut about a creepy dysfunctional family in a gothic old house from a screenplay...
Best of Fest: Jordan’s Top Five Films from the 2013 Sundance Film Festival
#5. Concussion
I came into this film not knowing writer/director Stacie Passon or her on screen muse Robin Weigert, let's just say they officially have...
Doubling Up: Coogler’s “Fruitvale” and Hoover’s “Blood Brother” are the Toast of Sundance 2013
Ryan Coogler's Fruitvale and Steve Hoover's Blood Brother were the big winners at the 2013 edition of the Sundance Film Festival - both picked...
2013 Sundance Film Fest: David Lowery, Ryan Coogler, Dosunmu, Ponsoldt and Carruth Part of U.S. Dramatic Comp
2013's Sundance Film Fest sees a mix of returnees in Cherien Dabis, Lynn Shelton, Andrew Dosunmu, Shane Carruth (see Upstream Color pic below) and James Ponsoldt, a...
2013 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Ryan Coogler’s Fruitvale
Among Filmmaker Magazine's 25 New Faces of 2012, Ryan Coogler saw his feature debut fast-tracked beginning with this year's Sundance Institute January Screenwriters Lab...
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