Tag: Shailene Woodley
Ferrari | Review
I Got a Fast Car: Mann Gets Glossy with Longstanding Labor of Love
For his first theatrical release in eight years and his second biopic...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #195. Damián Szifron’s Misanthrope
Misanthrope
While we're not expecting this fourth feature to land with the same ripple effects as what occurred when Damián Szifron's Wild Tales competed for...
2022 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Ant Hines & Casper Christensen’s Robots
A project that might be too close to the wire to be a part of the Sundance line-up, but with two heads are better...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Augustine Frizzell’s The Last Letter From Your Lover
Filmmaker/actress Augustine Frizzell's sophomore feature could have perhaps preemed in 2020, but it looks like 2021 was perhaps a better bet. A Netflix project...
Endings, Beginnings | Review
Some Other Beginning’s End: Doremus Continues on the Battlefield of Love
Love is hardly a many splendored thing in the filmography of Drake Doremus, who...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #111. Last Letter from Your Lover – Augustine Frizzell
Last Letter from Your Lover
Director Augustine Frizzell commenced a London-set Canadian production of Last Letter from Your Lover for her sophomore feature not much...
The Divergent Series: Allegiant – Part 1| Review
Once More With(out) Feeling: Schwentke Barrels Along with Malingering Franchise
If we’ve reached uncomfortable saturation levels with super hero tent poles, the same conversations should...
Insurgent | Review
Rebel Heart: Schwentke Usurps Plebeian YA Franchise
In many ways, Insurgent is an easier film to watch than its 2014 predecessor, Divergent, in which we...
White Bird in a Blizzard | Review
Skin Deep: Araki Weathers a 4th Decade in Filmmaking
Gregg Araki’s latest ode to youthful alienation, White Bird in a Blizzard, is his most restrained...
Interview: Gregg Araki – White Bird in a Blizzard
We sat down with director Gregg Araki at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival after the premiere of his new film, White Bird in a...
The Fault in Our Stars | Review
Never Having to Say You’re Sorry: Boone’s Adaptation Jerks Your Tears
Director Josh Boone adapts John Green’s popular 2012 novel The Fault in Our Stars...
Divergent | Review
Dissatisfaction: Burger Launches the Next YA Dystopia to Unwieldy Lengths
Director Neil Burger joins genre courting/sci-fi alum Andrew Niccol’s dip into the abscessed pool of...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Films for 2014: #150. Gregg Araki’s White Bird in a Blizzard
White Bird in a Blizzard
Director: Gregg Araki
Writer: Gregg Araki
Producer: Gregg Araki, Why Not Productions’ Pascal Caucheteux and Sebastien Lemercier, Pavlina Hatoupis
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available
Cast:...
Sundance 2014: Colangelo, Shelton, Corbijn, Winterbottom, Araki & Gareth Evans Among 16 V.I.Ps
The Sundance Film Festival made their final feature film line-ups with the Premieres category announcements. Sixteen films with huge name talent, returnee filmmakers and...
2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Gregg Araki’s White Bird in a Blizzard
The Living End (1992). Totally F***ed Up (1993). The Doom Generation (1995). Nowhere (1997). Splendor (1999). Mysterious Skin (2005). Smiley Face (2007). Kaboom (2011)....
Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2013: #76. James Ponsoldt’s The Spectacular Now
The Spectacular Now
Director: James Ponsoldt
Writer(s): Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber
Producer(s): Michelle Krumm, Andrew Lauren, Shawn Levy, Tom McNulty
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available
Cast: Mary Elizabeth...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2013: #80. Gregg Araki’s White Bird in a Blizzard
White Bird in a Blizzard
Director/Writer: Gregg Araki
Producer(s): Why Not Productions' Pascal Caucheteux and Sebastien Lemercier
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available
Cast: Eva Green, Shailene Woodley, Christopher Meloni,...