Tag: Scott Haze
Jurassic World Dominion | Review
This World Is Not Enough: Trevorrow Goes Through the Motions in Extinction Level Event
It’s neither the first nor the last time a toxic commingling...
Antlers | Review
The Killing of a Sacred Deer: Cooper Wanders Unevenly into Indigenous Lore
Director Scott Cooper moves beyond the comfort of his melodramatic roots with Antlers,...
Old Henry | Review
The Kid Stays in the Picture: Ponciroli Goes Old Fashioned with Fan Fiction Western
At a certain point, revisionism strays so far into its own...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Lyle Mitchell Corbine Jr.’s Wild Indian
His short film Shinaab was featured at the 2017 edition of Sundance (he also received some TLC from TIFF not once, but twice) and...
Midnight Special | Review
The Power of One: Nichols’ Sci-Fi Studio Film a Wispy Homage
Indie director Jeff Nichols makes his first crossover to studio fare with Midnight Special,...
2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: James Franco’s In Dubious Battle
The unpredictability with this filmmaker-actor is that he has got plenty of projects stoking the fire and we never know which item might push...
2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Rafael Palacio Illingworth’s The Force
Shot in June in Los Angeles, The Force features Olivia Thirlby and Ben Feldman in the pole position as newly married urbanites with a...
The Sound and the Fury | Review
But a Walking Shadow: Franco’s Faulkner Redux Merely Serviceable
Continuing to thumb his nose at naysayers, James Franco plunges onward into his own particular directorial...
Child of God | Review
Requiem for a Cave Man: Franco’s McCarthy Adaptation Displays Growth
On a similar directorial trajectory as, let’s say, Joe Swanberg, where quality vs. quantity tends...
