Tag: Sigourney Weaver
Master Gardener | Review
That Shall He Also Reap: Schrader Sows the Seeds of Fate with Metaphorical Blossoms
The seeds of hate are sown the same as seeds of...
Call Jane | Review
It Could Happen To You: Nagy Recuperates the Resiliency of Women in Sophisticated Melodrama
Camille Paglia, with her signature dramatic panache, might be among those...
The Good House | Review
Days of Wine & Mortgage: Weaver Soars in Drama on Denial & Redemption
“It always begins with denial,” Hildy Good announces in the opening frames...
2022 Sundance Film Festival: Phyllis Nagy, Lena Dunham, Jesse Eisenberg, John Patton Ford & Hazanavicius Fill Premieres Section
In the Premieres section you'll usually find a mix of studio unveilings and high profile acquisitions titles and in the almost equal split between...
2022 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Phyllis Nagy’s Call Jane
Finishing just a tad too late for entry into the 2021 autumn film fest schedule, Protagonist Pictures will gift Call Jane at some major...
My Salinger Year | Review
Raise High the Roofbeams, Cinema: Falardeau’s Warm Homage Clangs Carpe Diem
“I think that one of these days…you’re going to find out where you want...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #33. My Salinger Year – Philippe Falardeau
My Salinger Year
Quebec’s Philippe Falardeau will unleash his highest profile project to date next year with My Salinger Year, an adaptation of Joanna Rakoff’s...
The Assignment | Blu-ray Review
It’s been an arduous journey for action auteur Walter Hill’s latest film The Assignment, a B-grade schlocky piece of grindhouse pulp which has been...
The Assignment | Review
A Dish Best Served Bold: Hill’s Revenge-Thriller a Sleazy Mix of Action and Body Horror
Grindhouse groupies will have something to celebrate with the latest...
A Monster Calls | Review
Cover Up Love’s Alibi: Bayona Delivers Sensitively Portrait of Childhood Grief
Rounding out a loosely themed trilogy on traumatic motherhood, director J.A. Bayona, once protégé...
Ghostbusters | Review
Dose of a Ghost: Feig Delivers Funny, Feminized Franchise Entry
Overshadowed by the ill will of an alarmingly misogynist fanboy culture since its initial inception,...
Through the Looking-Glass…Top 200 Most Anticipated Films of 2017: #6. Walter Hill’s Tomboy, A Revenger’s Tale
Tomboy, A Revenger’s Tale
Director: Walter Hill
Writers: Walter Hill, Denis Hamill
Following a remarkable year in cinematic transgender representation with films like Sean Baker’s Tangerine, Tom...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2016: #7. Juan Antonio Bayona’s A Monster Calls
A Monster Calls
Director: J.A. Bayona
Writer: Patrick Ness
Spanish director Juan Antonio Bayona adapts Patrick Ness' celebrated children's book A Monster Calls for his third feature....
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...
Through the Looking-Glass…Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2016: #1. Juan Antonio Bayona’s A Monster Calls
A Monster Calls
Director: Juan Antonio Bayona // Writer: Patrick Ness
Spanish filmmaker Juan Antonio Bayona began as one of the talents supported by Guillermo Del...
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...
Working Girl | Blu-ray Review
Arriving for the first time on Blu-ray is the 1988 classic gender politics rom-com Working Girl. Famous for giving us Melanie Griffith her most...
Exodus: Gods and Kings | Review
Death on the Nile: Scott’s Biblical Epic Unworthy of the Gods
Arriving just in time for ritual slaughter is Ridley Scott’s update on the Moses...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Films for 2014: #14. Ridley Scott’s Exodus
Exodus
Director: Ridley Scott
Writers: Bill Collage, Adam Cooper, Steve Zaillian
Producers: Peter Chernin, Mark Huffam, Michael Schaefer, Ridley Scott
U.S. Distributor: 20th Century Fox
Cast: Aaron Paul,...
Body Language: Alfama Films Set to Produce Luca Guadagnino’s Body Art
It seems David Cronenberg hasn’t had enough of Don DeLillo, with Variety reporting that the director is set to go in front of the...
