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Firebrand | Review

One Survived: Ainouz Attempts to Give a Queen Her Due The Tudor era has maintained public fascination for the past five hundred years, a linchpin...

Karim Aïnouz’s Firebrand – 2023 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 5

A mainstay in the Un Certain Regard section (with a whopping four films as director/writer) and has sprinkled his films in Venice and Berlinale...

Rebecca | Review

De Winter of Our Discontent: Wheatley Wavers with Empty Remake of Du Maurier Classic Remaking a property which was previously adapted by none other than...

Radioactive | Review

Particle Decay: Satrapi Explores Curie in Elliptical, Stunted Biopic The persona of Marie Curie is a no-brainer as far as cinematic importance and appeal goes,...

Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #31. Rebecca – Ben Wheatley

Rebecca A decade into feature filmmaking and Ben Wheatley has taken it upon himself to remake Alfred Hitchcock’s 1940 classic Rebecca, which won the Best...

Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #107. Radioactive – Marjane Satrapi

Radioactive Marjane Satrapi continues to work in the English language with fifth feature, Radioactive, a UK production financed through Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner of...

Happy New Year, Colin Burstead | 2018 Intl. Film Festival & Awards Macao Review

New Year’s Evil: Wheatley Finds Humanity Amid Caustic Bickering Shapeshifting his way along a varied filmography, Ben Wheatley is back after the tongue-in-cheek gunplay bonanza...

Video Interview: Ben Wheatley – Happy New Year, Colin Burstead. | 2018 Intl. Film Festival & Awards Macao

Very much an eclectic, but at the same time cultivating a recognizable brand of cinema, Ben Wheatley is keeping busy these days with his...

Ghost in the Shell | Review

Dispirited Away: Sanders Succeeds with Somber Live-Action Remake of Cult Manga The essence of Masamune Shirow’s 1989 cult manga Ghost in the Shell automatically lends...

Free Fire | 2016 BFI London Film Festival Review

Gunfight at Boston, MA: Wheatley’s Portrait of a Vicious Shootout Massachusetts, 1970s. More precisely, the docks of Boston, where plans for a weapons trade at...

Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2016: #39. Ben Wheatley’s Free Fire

Free Fire Director: Ben Wheatley Writers: Ben Wheatley, Amy Jump British director Ben Wheatley returns with his sixth feature, Free Fire, after amassing a wildly popular following...

The Dark Valley | DVD Review

Arriving on DVD without having experienced a US theatrical release, The Dark Valley toured several smaller film festivals after premiering a year ago at...

The Dark Valley | Review

Sympathy For Mr. Vengeance: Prochaska’s Grimly Pleasing Revenge Yarn Selected as Austria’s entry for this year’s Foreign Language Oscar submission, The Dark Valley is perhaps...

Film Movement Moves into the Dark; Prochaska’s Western Saddling Up for 2015 Release

A film genre that appears to have been perfected by the Aussies, judging by the tepid response (reviews from Variety, THR, IW) at it's...

Inside Cannes 2012 Day 8: Five Quotes from the On the Road Press Conference

1. "I got to live more in those four weeks than typical, for me in my normal life" - Kristen Stewart The film began shooting...

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