Tag: Sam Mendes
Interview: Chloé Zhao & Jessie Buckley – Hamnet
In one of 2025’s most searing dramatic screen performances, Jessie Buckley embodies Agnes (the wife of William Shakespeare) with such fierce passion and unguarded...
Interview: Paul Mescal – Hamnet
It overpowered critics in Telluride, slayed Toronto audiences and has been on a rampage ever since winning audience film festival awards and catapulting itself...
2025 Gothams: Studio-Backed ‘One Battle After Another’ Takes on True Indies; Lands Six Noms
In a cinematic landscape increasingly dominated by gargantuan, risk-averse budgets, the upcoming Gotham Awards have set the stage for a compelling David vs. Goliath...
2022 TIFF: Peter Farrelly, Hong Sang-soo & Tobias Lindholm to World Premiere in Toronto
The fun part about dissecting TIFF's Gala and Special Presentations unveiling are what titles are skipping TIFF, which titles are moving directly from Venice...
2022 Toronto Intl. Film Festival: 100 Predictions (Part I) Berger, Wilde, Mendes & Nattiv
As we enthusiastically await the make-up of the major fall film festivals there is one theory that is being advanced: the "Festival of Festivals"...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #66. Sam Mendes’ Empire of Light
Empire of Light
Slightly "downgrading" in budget and no necessarily "scope," Sam Mendes' tenth outing (backed by Searchlight) will employ Olivia Colman, Michael Ward, Colin...
The Conversation: Time for TIFF 2019 – Predictions!
The Toronto International Film Festival is set to unspool its latest monolithic program. A major cue to set Oscar season into motion, the line-up...
Top 25 Most Anticipated Studio Films of 2019
And between the remakes, prequels, sequels, reboots and rehashes pouring out of the Hollywood studio system, we sift through the detritus of continual superhero...
Spectre | Review
The Legacy of Octopussy: Mendes Returns to 007 on Autopilot
A good act is hard to follow, and Spectre, the latest installment in the enduring...
Jordan M. Smith’s Top Ten Films of 2012: (Picks 5 to 1) Paul Thomas Anderson’s The Master is #1
5. Jeff, Who Lives At Home
Another film that took me a while to see, this is the Duplass brothers' going a little lighter this...
Skyfall | Review
Bond's 50th Birthday Bonanza His Best Yet?
What a celebration. The Bond series turns 50 this year, and Skyfall is nearly the perfect film to...
