Tag: top-stories
Video Interview: Christopher Abbott, Scott “Kid Cudi” Mescudi & Makenzie Leigh (James White)
If you visit Borderline Films' mini catalog of short and feature films you'll notice that they have a genuine knack for discovering and unearthing...
Casa Grande | Review
The Kids Are All Right: Barbosa Explores Brazil’s Class Fissures in Evenhanded Debut
Familiar dramatic conflicts are elevated by strong performances and astute characterizations in...
Shelter | Review
A Hard Knock Life: Bettany’s Naive Debut Exudes Good Intentions
Actor Paul Bettany makes his directorial debut with Shelter, meant to be a glimpse into...
The 33 | 2015 AFI Film Festival Review
Mountains May Depart: Riggen Reenacts Devastating Chilean Mining Collapse
Mexican director Patricia Riggen makes a curious departure with her third feature, The 33, a studio...
Queen of the Desert | AFI Film Festival Review
Hey, Queen: Herzog Can’t Convey Passion in the Desert
Acclaim does not seem to be the fate of Werner Herzog’s latest film, the long gestating...
By the Sea | Review
The Sterile Cuckoo: Jolie’s Handsome Relationship Drama is Long in Tooth
Moving on from last year’s suffocatingly honorable POW reenactment drama Unbroken, Angelina Jolie returns...
Criterion Collection: Code Unknown | Blu-ray Review
Over the past two decades, Austrian auteur Michael Haneke has grown into one of the most formidable cinematic titans currently working today. Winning five...
The Mask (Eyes of Hell) | Review
Circus of the Face: A Delectable Restoration of Obscure Canadian Horror Film
The 1961 horror film The Mask owns several notable distinctions. Not only was...
What’s Up Doc?: Pennebaker/Hegedus & Malick Voyage to the Top in November
It's been a couple months since the last edition of What's Up Doc? placed Michael Moore's surprise world premiere of Where To Invade Next at...
The Hallow | Review
Hollow’s Eve: Hardy’s Creature Feature Debut Has Superficial Roots
It was announced that Irish director Corin Hardy would be heading up The Crow reboot for...
Spectre | Review
The Legacy of Octopussy: Mendes Returns to 007 on Autopilot
A good act is hard to follow, and Spectre, the latest installment in the enduring...
Miss You Already | Review
Sisterhood of the Big C: Hardwicke and Case of the Dramatic Cancer Clause
Those who’ve been yearning for a remake of Garry Marshall’s beloved 1988...
Trumbo | Review
The Brave One: Roach Recapitulates Black List Era Hollywood
Examining the past from the safer perspective of our more enlightened period, Jay Roach’s Trumbo is...
In the Basement | Review
Dungeons, Nazis and Latex Babies: Seidl Puts Modern Cave Dwellers on Display
Paradise trilogy helmer Ulrich Seidl returns to docu form in what could easily...
Brooklyn | Review
A Brooklyn Baby: Crowley’s Simple Immigration Tale Buoyed by Strong Emotional Core
Director John Crowley returns with Brooklyn, his strongest film in years, based on...
Video Interview: Maxim Pozdorovkin & Tony Gerber (The Notorious Mr. Bout)
You may know the co-directors of The Notorious Mr. Bout for their prior individual projects, the likes include Maxim Pozdorovkin's co-directed project HBO alongside...
The Notorious Mr. Bout | Review
Tinker, Tailer, Soldier, Spoof: Gerber & Pozdorovkin Indulge Bout
You probably know him by his wildly exaggerated media coined title, the 'Merchant of Death', or...
Top 3 Critics’ Picks: Rick Alverson, Josh Mond & Todd Haynes this November
IONCINEMA.com’s Top 3 Critics’ Picks offers a curated approach to the usual quandary: what would you recommend I see in theaters this month? This November,...
The Conversation: Finding Foreigners
Though there are many issues regarding the problematic process in deciding the roster of nominees for the annual onslaught known as the Academy Awards,...
Tracking Shot: Walter Hill, Ry Russo-Young & Alexandros Avranas Shooting in November
“Tracking Shot” is a top of month featurette here on IONCINEMA.com that looks at the projects that are moments away from lensing. This November, we’ve got...
Hard Labor (Trabalhar Cansa) | Review
There’s a Ghost in Me: Dutra and Rojas Explore the Reductive State of Capitalism
The changing socioeconomic landscape in Brazil has had a direct impact...
Marshland (La Isla Mínima) | Review
Caught in the Quagmire: Rodriguez’s Satisfying Period Neo-Noir
Having swept the 2014 Goya Awards back home (winning ten of its sixteen nominations, including Best Film),...
Burnt | Review
Chef Boyardee: Wells Fails with Filmmaking Recipe
For his third film outing, director John Wells delves into the catty universe of high-end cuisine with Burnt...
Edgar Allan Poe’s Black Cats: Two Adaptations by Sergio Martino & Lucio Fulci | Blu-ray Review
Throughout the history of cinema there are countless adaptations of Edgar Allan Poe's work, from D. W. Griffith's early take on The Sealed Room...
The Conversation: Top 10 American Indie Filmmakers Missing in Action
No film buff wants to see a promising, or prominent filmmaker pull a disappearing act a la Terrence Malick, (though it seems he isn't keen to...
Love | Review
Scorpio Becomes Electra: Noé's Sex Scenes from a Marriage
The last time we were caught in provocateur Gaspar Noé’s crosshairs it was back in 2009...
The Royal Road | Review
Jenni Olson begins The Royal Road, her latest emotional excavation of Hollywood nostalgia via Benning-esque 16mm landscape portraiture, by self-referentially quoting Michel Chion on...
Julia | Review
Beyond Therapy: Brown’s Illogical Entry of Femme Revenge
For the most part, director Matthew A. Brown presents his directorial debut Julia without the exploitative flourishes...
Tokyo Tribe | Review
Why Don’t You Play in the Streets?: Sono’s Overblown Street War Musical
Many consider Sion Sono to be Takashi Miike’s succeeding enfant terrible, both in...
The Sound and the Fury | Review
But a Walking Shadow: Franco’s Faulkner Redux Merely Serviceable
Continuing to thumb his nose at naysayers, James Franco plunges onward into his own particular directorial...
Jason and Shirley | Review
Holliday Heart: Winter Reimagines the Peripheral Flotsam and Jetsam of Famed Interview
The nagging obscurity of Shirley Clarke’s famed 1967 documentary Portrait of Jason remains...
Rock the Kasbah | Review
Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World: Levinson’s Afghan Exploration Prizes Diversion
After a unique pit stop in found footage horror with 2012’s The Bay...
Suffragette | Review
Female Misbehavior: Gavron’s Noble Depiction of British Women’s Suffrage Movement
There’s much to admire in Sarah Gavron’s sophomore directorial effort, Suffragette, a turn-of-the-century snapshot of...
Bone Tomahawk | Review
Down to the Bone: Zahler’s Debut a Dapper Genre Hybrid
For his directorial debut, screenwriter S. Craig Zahler assembles an illustrious cast in Bone Tomahawk,...
Heart of a Dog | Review
Essay films rarely get as much attention as Laurie Anderson's Heart of a Dog as already attracted. The highly regarded performance artist and musician has long...
Criterion Collection: My Own Private Idaho| Blu-ray Review
Patching together portraits of his beloved Portland streets, bits of Shakespeare's Henry IV via Welles' tumultuous Chimes at Midnight, and vignettes of a narcoleptic vagabond hustler whose motherless anxieties...
The Conversation: 2015 TIFF Top 10 New Faces
Film fests such as the Toronto Int. Film Festival afford us the best of opportunities to get instantly familiar with new faces in the world...
The Russian Woodpecker | Review
Signals Over The Air: First Time Filmmaker Chad Gracia Sees Russian Conspiracy Theory Transform Into Truth
At the dark heart of director Chad Gracia’s messy,...
Meadowland | Review
Downward Slopes: Morano’s Debut of Downtrodden Beats
Cinematographer Reed Morano (The Skeleton Twins; Kill Your Darlings) makes her directorial debut with Meadowland, an increasingly cheerless...
Jane B. par Agnes V. | Varda Retrospective Review
She’s Not There: Varda’s Lovely, Refracted Portrait of Iconic Birkin
The other obscure Agnes Varda title treated to a digital restoration courtesy of Cinelicious Pics...
Kung Fu Master! (Le petit amour) | Varda Retrospective Review
Oedipus at the Arcade: Varda’s Empathetic Exploration of Taboo
Invariably, most conversations concerning Agnes Varda, the sole female auteur amongst the prized clutch of men...
AFI Fest 2015: Mediterranea, James White & Krisha Among New Auteurs and American Independents Films Lineup
A pair of sections that we've been covering almost since its inception, the American Film Institute (AFI) announced their selections for the New Auteurs...
Crimson Peak | Review
The Fall of the House of Cushing: Del Toro’s Haunted House Thriller Strangled by Frills
There’s much to admire within the crumbling facades of Guillermo...
Under Electric Clouds | Review
Syndromes and a Century: German Jr.’s Existentialist State of Things
Aleksey German Jr., son of famed Russian auteur Aleksey German, comes into his own prominence...
Bridge of Spies | Review
A Bridge Too Far: Spielberg Gets Chilly with Cold War Curiosity
We’re used to seeing Steven Spielberg’s penchant for WWII recuperations, whether it be via...
The Conversation: 2015 TIFF Top 10 New Voices
Though it’s a harder film festival to regulate and therefore tabulate a comprehensively genuine list reflecting the totality of the fest’s offering per any...
Room | Review
Of One’s Own: Abrahamson Delivers Emotionally Potent Adaptation
Irish director Lenny Abrahamson continues his trajectory of unpredictable cinematic platforms with his latest film, Room, an...
Experimenter | Review
Experiment This: Almereyda Revisits Classic Social Psych Progenitor
American filmmaker Michael Almereyda brings to the screen a pseudo-biopic on one of the more famous social...
The Devils (1971) | 2015 Beyond Film Festival Review
Sympathy for The Devils: The Suppression of Ken Russell’s Delirious, Incomparable Masterpiece
Despite the pronounced pedigree of its origins, Ken Russell’s glorious 1971 film The...
The Final Girls | Review
Spoofaway Camp: Strauss-Schulson’s Playful Mash-up Takes a Tumble On You
Director Todd Strauss-Schulson, whose last feature was A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas (2011)...
