Tag: Thomas Benski

Straight Circle | 2025 Venice Film Festival Review

Circle in the Sand: Hudson Blurs the Borders of the Mind “Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on its own dunghill,” wrote English writer Richard...

The Northman | Review

Whisper Tales of Gore: Eggers Burns Trail to Valhalla in Viking Epic In keeping with the time-hoary notion of revenge being a dish best served...

2022 Sundance Film Festival: Monia Chokri, Mimi Cave, Hanna Bergholm & Christian Tafdrup Scare Up Midnight Section

It'll be a truly international Midnight section for 2022 with the half dozen offerings. We got representation from Spain and Carlota Pereda's PIGGY, Denmark...

Interview: Katharine O’Brien – Lost Transmissions

Director Katharine O’Brien makes her feature debut with Lost Transmissions, an LA-set drama about mental illness and its effect on a budding friendship between...

Boyz In The Wood | 2019 SXSW Film Festival Review Ninian Doff

Ninian Doff Goes Brogue While Delinquents Go Scot-Free Scottish music video-director Ninian Doff offers an uneven but hilarious debut with Boyz in the Wood:  a bonkers action-comedy...

2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Tim Travers Hawkins’ XY Chelsea

We have screen treatments of Frank Serpico, Mark Felt, and Karen Silkwood, and in early 2018 we could have another (anti)hero on the silver...

Street Team: Crystal Moselle in Simpatico with The Skate Kitchen

No stranger to profiling NYC based artists and misfits running, subwaying (and in this case, skating) around Manhattan and its boroughs, Deadline confirms that...

Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2015: #51. Andrea Arnold’s American Honey

American Honey Director: Andrea Arnold // Writer: Andrea Arnold Marking Arnold’s fourth title and first to film outside of the UK, she’s been quite since her...

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Sumo: Spirit Weighs Nothing | 2026 London BFI Film Festival Review

A Heavy Toll: Shirai’s Artful Take on the Body...

Interview: Virginie Efira – All of a Sudden

In All of a Sudden (read review), Virginie Efira delivers...

Interview: Nathalia Acevedo – Salón de belleza

Actress-turned-filmmaker Nathalia Acevedo made her feature directorial debut with...

Fjord | Review

Uncanny Valley: Mungiu Explores Liberated Prisons Totalitarian mentality is driven...