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2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Dev Patel’s Monkey Man

Netflix will indeed have a presence at Sundance this year and could showcase a good trio of films and one item that could break...

Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #84. Nash Edgerton’s Gringo

Gringo He might have a background in back breaking stunt man work (more than two decades worth), but in our books, this Aussie's true vocation...

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...

Chappie | Review

iRobot: Blomkamp’s Latest Sentimentally Inclined Sci-Fi is Pleasantly Familiar Sentient technological constructs and expanding the definition of what constitutes the essence of consciousness as it...

Top 25 Most Anticipated Studio Films of 2015: #2. Neill Blomkamp’s Chappie

Chappie Director: Neill Blomkamp // Writers: Neill Blomkamp, Terri Tatchell After the unprecedented success of his debut, District 9 (2009), South African director Neill Blomkamp thankfully...

2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: John Krasinski’s The Hollars

About a half-dozen years have passed since John Krasinski broke out behind the camera with his 80-minuter raining men oddity. The adaptation of David Foster Wallace's...

Open Grave | Review

Don’t Fear the Reaper: Lopez-Gallego and the Search for Substance In 2011, some may recall a found footage moon expedition thriller called Apollo 18, the...

Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2013: #96. Spike Lee’s Oldboy

Oldboy Director: Spike Lee Writer(s): Mark Protosevich (first credit was The Cell) Producer(s): Quandrant Pictures' Doug Davison, Primal Pictures' Roy Lee U.S. Distributor: Film District Cast: Samuel L. Jackson,...

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La petite dernière (The Little Sister) | Review

The Lost Daughter: Herzi Passes Up Potency in Standard...

Interview: Marjane Satrapi & Vincent Paronnaud – Persepolis

The thrill of meeting Marjane Satrapi reminded me of being 6 years old at Disney Land when I met the living, breathing Cinderella. Except Cinderella was an actress with a blond wig and Marjane is the real woman behind her autobiographical graphic novel, turned movie, “Persepolis”. The distinctive mole on her nose and her dark sultry eyes rose off the page and appeared in front of me, smoking and speaking with a French accent.

Interview: Eivind Landsvik – Low Expectations | 2026 Cannes Film Festival

Exploring themes of mental health, emotional recovery, companionship, and...