Tag: top-stories
What’s Up Doc?: Sheffield & AFI Docs Signal the Summer Fest Drought
Well folks, after a rather long and brutal winter (at least for me here in Buffalo), we are finally heading into the wonderful warmth...
Tu dors Nicole | Review
Sleep, Perchance to Dream: Lafleur’s Eccentric Portrait of One Hazy Summer
Quebecois filmmaker Stephane Lafleur’s third film, Tu dors Nicole (“You’re Sleeping Nicole) unfolds over...
Nightingale | Review
On Yon Bloomy Spray: Oyelowo Dominates Lester’s One Set Drama
Director Elliott Lester, best known for his 2011 Jason Statham offering, Blitz, adapts firstime screenwriter...
Güeros | Review
Like it’s 1999: Ruizpalacios’ Sprightly Directorial Debut
There’s something in the air of Alonso Ruizpalacios’ directorial debut, Güeros, a beautifully shot period piece examining a...
2015 Cannes Film Festival: Our Coverage
IONCINEMA.com's 2015 Cannes Film Festival coverage.
Standing Tall - Nicholas Bell
Tale of Tales - Blake Williams
Our Little Sister - Nicholas Bell
One Floor Review - Blake...
Heaven Knows What | Review
Living Through Oblivion: Safdie Bros. Lens Devastating Tale of Desperation and Depravity on the Streets of NYC
The story of how the directorial brothers Benny...
I Believe In Unicorns | Review
Oh Them Silly Unicorns: Meyerhoff’s Coming of Age Debut Prizes Style Over Substance
Director Leah Meyerhoff most effectively conveys the nature of her debut film,...
2015 Cannes Critics Panel Predictions: “Carol” Leads “Son of Saul” & “The Assassin” for Palme d’Or
According to our jury Cannes Critics Panel, László Nemes' Son of Saul and Hou Hsiao-Hsien's The Assassin have an outside chance of walking out of...
2015 Cannes Critics Panel: Todd Haynes’ “Carol” is Our Top Graded Film
The Price of Salt is at a market high according to our critics. While Le Film Francais have Mia Madre in the pole position and...
2015 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 11: Kurzel’s “Macbeth” Avoids Tragic Fate
It was last year's most snap worthy Cannes Market one sheet image and it pretty much secured an In Comp entry the moment Marion...
2015 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 10: Takes Two to Limbo in Nicloux’s “Valley Of Love”
A Croisette anomaly of sorts and still a relative unknown despite his three decade and dozen film span, Guillaume Nicloux's only previous Cannes showing...
Love at First Fight | Review
Once Bitten: Cailley’s Unique Exploration of Summer Lovin’
Since premiering at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival, where it picked up the FIPRESCI Prize in the...
2015 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 10: Pulling the Plug on Michel Franco’s “Chronic”
It's a Tim Roth lead Un Certain Regard jury that awarded Michel Franco with the highest honor of the section. Michel Franco has moved...
Chronic | 2015 Cannes Film Festival Review
Prognosis Negative: Franco’s English Language Dance with Death
After winning the Un Certain Regard Award for his 2012 sophomore feature After Lucia, Mexican director Michel...
2015 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 9: Does Hou Hsiao-hsien’s Killer Instinct Found in “The Assassin”
Taking a page from WKW, Taiwanese master filmmaker Hou Hsiao-hsien took a full eight years working on martial arts film, The Assassin. He first...
2015 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 9: Audiard Goes Off Deep-end with “Dheepan”
We'll be better able to assess whether this Jacques Audiard's seventh feature film was triumphant, faltered or flatlined when more results trickle in, but...
2015 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 8 & 9: Between a Rock & a Hard R Place for Noé’s “Love”
It's only his fourth feature film, but his eighth trip to Cannes, Gaspar Noé hasn't let go of the short or long format. He...
2015 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 8: Zhangke’s “Mountains May Depart” Sees “The World” as Capitalist
Almost splitting his time equally between the Lido and the Croisette, with almost a dozen features in (a mix of fiction and docus), Jia...
2015 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 8: No Love Lost on Sorrentino’s “Youth”
The last of the three competing Italian films for the Palme d'Or, unlike 2008 where Garrone's Gomorrah edged out Sorrentino's Il Divo, here, solely...
2015 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 7: Donzelli’s “Marguerite & Julien” is “Small Change”
I've been there before. One week into the strenuous daily grind that is Cannes and the tired journalist/critic might think twice about a project featuring...
Cemetery of Splendour | 2015 Cannes Film Festival Review
Syndromes And A Cemetery: Thai Joe Returns With A Familiar Stunner
An elementary school-cum-hospital built atop a "cemetery of kings," ancient spaces reactivated the present,...
2015 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 7: Villeneuve Takes Back Cannes with Sicario
In the beginning stages of his career (with the exception of Maelstrom showing in Berlin), Denis Villeneuve was an habitual of the Cannes Film...
2015 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 6: Flash Mob Sides with Trier’s “Louder than Bombs”
There are a swarm of cinephiles out there who became instant, cult-like fans of his first work (2006's Reprise) and his sophomore film in...
2015 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 6: Brizé “Le loi du marche” Should Lead to Future Employment for Lindon
Six features in, French filmmaker Stéphane Brizé hasn't had a long history with the Cannes Film Festival. In fact, the one time Camera d'Or...
Video Interview: Marah Strauch & Eric Bruggemann (Sunshine Superman)
Director Marah Strauch and producer Eric Bruggemann's first feature collaboration tells the exhilarating story of Carl Boenish, the father of the BASE jumping movement whose...
2015 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 4: Rousing, Tender, Homo…geneous Response to Haynes’ “Carol”
Long tipped for a Main Comp berth, the Croisette's Todd Haynes drought appears to be over with a dam busting gush of a love...
2015 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 4: Maiwenn Breaks a Leg with “Mon Roi”
It was with her multi-angled, social dramedy where the actress, slowly turning into filmmaker (2006's Pardonnez-moi and 2009's Le bal des actrices) made her...
2015 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 4: Sea of Trees “Gerry”manders Critics
A film that explores the suicide theme might have become the first Croisette casualty, hara-kiri style. He has had a lengthy, healthy career moving...
2015 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 4: Margherita with All the Toppings for Moretti’s “Mia Madre”
A two time juror, winner of Best Director for Dear Diary (1993) and Palme d'Or winner for The Son’s Room in 2001, this is...
In the Shadow of Women | 2015 Cannes Film Festival Review
Masculine/Feminine: Garrel Offers Yet Another Take On A Romantic Rift
As we see with many so-called auteurs, Philippe Garrel has been making the same film...
2015 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 3: Son of Saul Puts Focus on One Individual
It's a next to nil chance that a first time filmmaker will have the opportunity to walk the red carpet steps of the Main...
2015 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 3: The Lobster Boils Over into Bunuelian Aura
Its much to early to crown him as the godfather of the Greek new wave, but there'll be mounds of further essays written on the tsunami-breaking...
2015 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 2: Lots to Munch on in “Tale of Tales”
Marking another strong year for Italian cinema vying for the Palme d'Or, Matteo Garrone is the first out of the gates for the green,...
One Floor Below | 2015 Cannes Film Festival Review
Radu Muntean Updates Rear Window to the Modern Age
Radu Muntean's One Floor Below, the latest entry in the Romanian New Wave, has a bone...
2015 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 2: Kore-eda Needs No Introductions with “Our Little Sister”
The race for the Palme d'Or officially begins today. It's day 2 at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival which means the press core and as per...
Bessie | Review
Lady Sings the Hues: Rees Returns to Resurrect the Star of Blues Singer
Many may not be immediately familiar with the name Bessie Smith, an...
Every Secret Thing | Review
Baby Blues: Berg’s Troubled and Troubling Feature Debut
Treated to a chilly reception following its premiere at the 2014 Tribeca Film Festival last spring, the...
Slow West | Review
Western Dreams: Maclean’s Accomplished, Stylized Debut
Scottish musician John Maclean makes a handsome directorial debut with Slow West, a period western set mainly in 19th century Colorado....
I’ll See You in My Dreams | Review
Dream a Little Dream of Me: Haley’s Superb Showcase for Blythe Danner
Long a supporting fixture in a variety of film projects going on five...
Above and Below | 2015 Hot Docs Review
Both the title and premise of Swiss director Nicolas Steiner’s latest documentary mildly echoes the recently released and quickly disregarded found footage horror schlock...
Good Kill | Review
Fatal Irony: Is There Anything Good About This Kill?
Nearly two decades after collaborating on the shrewd and subtly realized sci-fi allegory, Gattaca, Ethan Hawke...
Hot Pursuit | Review
When Hot is Cold: Fletcher’s Tone Deaf Comedy a Frivolous Altercation
For those familiar with director Anne Fletcher’s studio track record, including the rom-com platitudes...
Maggie | Review
The Big Z: Hobson’s Maudlin Debut Splices Tone Unevenly
Pulled mysteriously from the Toronto Film Festival lineup last fall after it was picked up for...
Hunting Elephants | Review
Beasts of Burden: Levi’s Slapstick Heist Film Runs Amuck
For his sophomore film, Israeli director Reshef Levi inserts Patrick Stewart alongside the likes of Sasson...
Bravetown | Review
Home of the Brave: Duran’s Debut a Neutered Examination of Grief During Wartime
There’s a war going on, though not one specifically referenced, mentioned or...
Saint Laurent | Review
Once again, Make it the Same Only New
With this biopic on the great French fashion icon Yves Saint Laurent, Bertrand Bonello streamlines for himself...
Preggoland | Review
Maternity Syndrome: Tierney’s Undefined Comedy Explores Notions of Motherhood
What begins as a concept full of pleasurably subversive possibilities quickly turns into yet another diluted...
I Am Big Bird: The Caroll Spinney Story | Review
8 Feet Tall and Light as a Feather: Walker and LaMattina Chronicle the Life and Love of a Puppeteering Legend
You’d be hard pressed to...
The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared | Review
Shot in the Dark: Herngren’s Tiring Road Comedy Overplays Gimmick
Before you can even wrap your mind around its cumbersome title, you’ll be immediately comparing...
Hyena | Review
Scavenger’s Song: Johnson’s Chilling, Stylized Sophomore Feature
Opening with a brooding, atmospheric ambience as we drift through a throbbing drug bust set to an...
