Tag: Simon McBurney

Nosferatu (2024) | Review

Basic Instincts: Eggers Taps Into the Bloodlust with Vampy Remake It would seem there’s no one more fitting than Robert Eggers to mount a remake...

2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Duke Johnson’s The Actor

This is one of those titles that could fit a bit anywhere in terms of major film festival premiere -- it all depends on...

The Pale Blue Eye | Review

Poe Boy: Cooper Fails to Find the Exquisite Beauty in Eerie, Dreary Period Mystery You’ll certainly be reduced to the mindset of the weak and...

Wolfwalkers | Review

The Call of the Wild: Moore Crafts Exceptional Animated Odyssey in Third Outing Another example of how rich cultural subtexts can be reformatted for profound...

The Theory of Everything | Review

Scenes From a Marriage: Marsh’s Distilled Look at Physicist Stephen Hawking Spanning twenty five years in their lives together and based on the memoir Travelling...

Magic in the Moonlight | Review

Hocus Pocus: Allen’s Latest a Re-hash of All-Too-Familiar Themes Returning once more to the world of psychics and magicians to inform his breezy comedic styling,...

Top 200 Most Anticipated Films for 2014: #105. Woody Allen’s Magic in Moonlight

Magic in Moonlight Director: Woody Allen Writer: Woody Allen Producers: Letty Aronson, Helen Robin, Stephen Tenenbaum U.S. Distributor: Sony Pictures Classics Cast: Emma Stone, Colin Firth, Marcia Gay Harden,...

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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...

Interview: Sandra Wollner – Everytime | 2026 Cannes Film Festival

One of the discoveries of this year's Cannes Film...