Tag: Scarlett Johansson
Asteroid City | Review
The Lost City of Twee: Anderson Continues Quest of Counterfeit Sentiments
Somewhere along the way, over the past twenty years, Wes Anderson’s style completely...
Wes Anderson’s Asteroid City – 2023 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 7
Technically speaking the great American filmmaker Wes Anderson has now appeared in the Cannes competition with three titles - opening the '12 edition with...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Independent Films of 2019: #14. Untitled Noah Baumbach project
A film that Netflix could have easily placed in the 2018 calendar, Noah Baumbach's still untitled project might just follow in the footsteps of...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Independent Films of 2019: #18. Taika Waititi’s Jojo Rabbit
Jojo Rabbit
Based on a 2012 Black List screenplay, Taika Waititi's sixth feature film went into production in May/June of 2018 in the Czech Republic...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #92. Untitled Noah Baumbach Comedy
While Netflix held off at showing the pic during the fall season, there is no reason to think that they won't premiere in early...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #41. Taika Waititi – Jojo Rabbit
A longstanding friend of the festival (I think I've walked by him three dozen times at the HQ in Park City), Taika Waititi might...
Isle of Dogs | Review
A Dog’s Tale: Anderson Returns to Animation with Scruffy, Eclectic Fantasy
We’ve come to expect a certain technical formality from Wes Anderson, even across a...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #5. Wes Anderson’s Isle of Dogs
Isle of Dogs
Embarking on his ninth feature film, second stop-animated project, and third straight collab with Production Designer Adam Stockhausen (2012's Moonrise Kingdom, 2014's...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #22. Untitled Noah Baumbach Project
In what will be another one-two creative punch as when he recently unveiled Frances Ha and While We're Young with only season apart, while...
Criterion Collection: Ghost World | Blu-ray Review
Although most widely recognized for his 2003 black comedy Bad Santa, director Terry Zwigoff’s particular idiosyncrasies are perhaps best captured in his 2001 narrative...
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...
Hail, Caesar! | Blu-ray Review
Premiering stateside just prior to opening the 2016 Berlin International Film Festival,Hail, Caesar! the Coen Bros. parody of studio era Hollywood, took home around...
Hail, Caesar! | Review
Sign of the Cross: The Coen Bros. Revisit the Backlot Desires of Hollywood’s Golden Era
The Coen Bros., back with their first title since 2013’s...
Avengers: Age of Ultron | Review
The Wrath of Bland: Whedon’s Poo Poo Platter Continues
Mainstream event cinema continues to shackle box office glory and narrative familiarity to a creative deathbed...
Birds & the Bees…Boyhood Leads 24th Gotham Independent Film Award Noms
Deemed as his career best, Richard Linklater's Boyhood leads all nominations for the 24th Gotham Independent Film Awards with winks in the Best Feature,...
Lucy | Review
In the Sky With Diamonds: Besson’s Latest a Crock of Crack-pot Sci-Fi
It’s rather a shame to report that Luc Besson’s latest directorial effort, Lucy,...
Chef | Review
Mostly Favreau: Actor/Director’s Return to Indie Scene a Pleasant Surprise
A thinly veiled allegory for Jon Favreau’s own career, whether he consciously means it to...
Under the Skin | Review
Female Perversion: Glazer’s Latest a Strange, Hypnotic Exploration of the Body Feminine
It’s been over a decade now since Jonathan Glazer’s exciting and strange sophomore...
Her | Review
High Tech Affairs: Jonze Unites Poets & Processors
In Her, Spike Jonze’s brainy and big hearted exploration of near future human relationships with techno-intelligence, Joaquin...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2013: # 78. Jonathan Glazer’s Under the Skin
Under the Skin
Director: Jonathan Glazer
Writer(s): Walter Campbell
Producer(s): Nick Wechsler and James Wilson
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available
Cast: Scarlett Johansson
Re-shoots delayed this from being a 2012 release,...