Sabotage Triage: Kusama and Kidman Break the Bank in Riveting Revenge Thriller
Robert Burns’ eternal line “The best laid schemes o’ Mice an’ Men/Gang aft...
Destroyer
She didn't exactly lose her footing, but Karyn Kusama found herself in the dream scenario moving directly from indiewood Sundance accolades to Hollywood misfires...
Kong’s Crib: Vogt-Roberts Strains Weak Characters Through Special Effects Pageant
In the continuing tradition of flinging fledgling indie directors into studio tent pole franchise reboots,...
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...
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....
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...
The East
Director: Zal Batmanglij
Writer(s): Batmanglif and Brit Marling
Producer(s): Marling, Michael Costigan, Jocelyn Hayes, Ridley Scott, Tony Scott
U.S. Distributor: Fox Searchlight
Cast: Ellen Page, Alexander Skarsgård,...
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.