Tag: Saoirse Ronan
Face the Music: Saoirse Ronan & Austin Butler Join Sean Durkin’s “Deep Cuts”
The A24 folks are getting into the Sean Durkin business once again. After backing his third feature film in The Iron Claw, they've also...
Blitz | Review
London Has Fallen: McQueen Explores Life During Wartime
Following his extensively researched 2023 documentary Occupied City, which details WWII atrocities waged against the Dutch during...
2024 Gothams: Sean Baker’s Anora Lands Four Noms; Payal Kapadia & RaMell Ross in the Mix
The notoriously unpredictable and always confusing Gotham Awards revealed their nominations for the upcoming 34th gala, with Sean Baker’s Anora leading the pack. Anora...
2024 Sundance: A Different Man, The Outrun, Winner & Sasquatch Sunset Among Premieres
Sundance Film Festival's Premiere section (a mix of fiction and docs) will have some biggie titles to contend with the likes of Aaron Schimberg's...
2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Nora Fingscheidt’s The Outrun
Park City has been a fruitful ground for the films on addiction and the next stint in rehab could be Nora Fingscheidt’s fifth feature...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #85. Garth Davis’ Foe
Foe
Lion (2016) and Mary Magdalene (2018) filmmaker Garth Davis moved into an ambitious sci-fi thriller third feature in January of 2022. Starring Saoirse Ronan,...
2022 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Tom George’s See How They Run
Depending how Searchlight plays its hand for the 2022 slate, we could easily see See How They Run set up for Sundance or play...
The French Dispatch | Review
Repetition Commission: Anderson Flatlines with Twee Aesthetic
Since cinema requires a semblance of participation by the audience, a passive relationship of sorts, the latest curio...
Ammonite | Review
The Shell Seekers: Lee Recuperates a Scientist’s Legacy in Languid Love Story
As its title suggests, Ammonite, the sophomore feature from burgeoning director Francis Lee,...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #37. Ammonite – Francis Lee
Ammonite
British director Francis Lee will deliver the high profile drama Ammonite in 2020, which stars Kate Winslet and Saoirse Ronan as a pair of...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Independent Films of 2019: #3. Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch
The French Dispatch
More croissant than cronut, Wes Anderson returns to the red, white and blue but of the Hotel Chevalier and Jacques Cousteau sort...
Mary Queen of Scots | Review
Two Queens Stand Before Me: Rourke’s Reticent Recapitulation of a Doomed Queen
Not since Charles Jarrott’s 1971 mounting of the infamous demise of Mary Stuart,...
On Chesil Beach | Review
On the Waterfront: Cooke’s Tender Adaptation of Sexual Aversion in 1960s England
A couple of newly weds hit an irresolvable and unpleasant barrier during their...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #67. Michael Mayer’s The Seagull
The Seagull
He appeared on the film scene with A Home at the End of the World (2004) and Flicka (2006) and then....disappeared. A full...
2018 Indie Spirit Noms: Guadagnino’s “Call Me by Your Name” Leads Pack with 6, Benny Safdie Lands 3
It's the head-scratching nominations process where Greta Gerwig's Lady Bird is good enough for the Best Feature category and picks up four nominations in...
2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Michael Mayer’s The Seagull
We were quite surprised that The Seagull didn't drop sometime in 2017, after all, production did take place in 2015. The good news is...
Lady Bird | Review
Call Her by Her Name: Gerwig Shifts Shrewdly in Director’s Seat
Actress Greta Gerwig, alum of the American film movement known as Mumblecore and ingenious...
Guess Who’s Coming to the Awards Dinner? Jordan Peele’s “Get Out” Leads 2017 Gotham Award Noms
Today's Gotham Awards nominees announcement proves that the film's themselves have their own against all odds narratives. With the five noms for the Best...
Loving Vincent | Review
What is Love? Kobiela & Welchman Paint a Vivid Van Gogh
His expressive brush at capturing the world around him still affects worldwide art and...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Michael Mayer’s The Seagull
A premium title for the acquisitions side of Sundance, Michael Mayer has been absent from feature films since
his first pair A Home at the...
Brooklyn | Review
A Brooklyn Baby: Crowley’s Simple Immigration Tale Buoyed by Strong Emotional Core
Director John Crowley returns with Brooklyn, his strongest film in years, based on...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Nikole Beckwith’s Stockholm, Pennsylvania
An actor, musician and a playwright who sort of came swanning into the driver's seat in 2012 stringing the prestigious Academy Nicholl Fellowships in...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Ryan Gosling’s Lost River
Ryan Gosling moved into the director's chair in 2013. Though it was cheered at its reception, Lost River (formerly titled "How to Catch a...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Films for 2014: #32. Wes Anderson’s The Grand Budapest Hotel
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Director: Wes Anderson
Writer(s): Wes Anderson
Producer(s): Wes Anderson, Jeremy Dawson, Steven M. Rales, Scott Rudin
U.S. Distributor: Fox Searchlight
Cast: Ralph Fiennes, Tony Revolori,...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Films for 2014: #95. Ryan Gosling’s How To Catch a Monster
How To Catch a Monster
Director: Ryan Gosling
Writer: Ryan Gosling
Producers: David Lancaster, Michel Litvak, Marc Platt, Adam Siegel, Jeffrey Stott
U.S. Distributor: Warner Bros.
Cast: Saoirse Ronan,...
How I Live Now | Review
There's No Place Like Home; Macdonald Pulled By Too Many Strings
This polished as his docu-work, Kevin Macdonald's fourth fiction feature is a little bit...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2013: #23. Wes Anderson’s The Grand Budapest Hotel
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Director/Writer: Wes Anderson
Producer(s): Anderson, Steven M. Rales and Scott Rudin
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available
Cast: Jude Law, Ralph Fiennes, Edward Norton, Bill Murray,...
