Tag: top-stories
What Happened, Miss Simone? | Review
Writing on the Wall: Garbus Offers Compressed Portrait of Soul-Gospel-Jazz Queen
Nina Simone, a prominent musician-turned-civil-rights-activist, left behind a legacy in which the latter part...
Creep | Review
People Are Strange: Brice’s Debut Retools Found Footage for Ordinary Madness
Available on demand at the same time as his Sundance darling sophomore feature The...
The Midnight Swim | Review
Out in the Moonlight, Just Like We Used to Do: Smith’s Throbbing, Eerie Debut
The unnerving quality of Sarah Adina Smith’s directorial debut, The Midnight...
Burying the Ex | Review
Ex to Grind: Dante’s ZomCom Never Finds Its Pulse
Zombies are difficult subject matters for the screen. A staple of a popular subgenre, original...
Infinitely Polar Bear | Review
One Flew Over the Housing Project: Forbes Relates Childhood Memories in Debut
Screenwriter Maya Forbes makes her directorial debut with Infinitely Polar Bear, an exploration...
Manglehorn | Review
Locks of Love: Pacino Engrosses in Slight Narrative from Green
David Gordon Green continues his examination of masculine relationships in Manglehorn, an adaptation from first...
Video Interview: Mia Hansen-Løve – Eden
The morning after the world premiere of Eden at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival, I arrived at a bar not yet open, located just...
Eden | Review
In The Garden Of Garage: Hansen-Løve Recounts Brother's Coming of Age During the Rise of House Music
Thanks to her brother Sven’s involvement in the popularization...
The Wanted 18 | Review
Got Milk? Cowan & Shomali See The Glass Half Full, Celebrating Community Action In Beit Sahour With Stop-Motion
Paul Cowan and Amer Shomali’s partially animated docu-drama,...
Day Out of Days | 2015 Los Angeles Film Festival Review
Days Go By: Cassavetes Returns with Industry Commentary
It’s a tale as old as cinema itself, the dismissive and apathetic attitude towards ageing women in...
The Story of Adèle H. | Blu-ray Review
You no doubt know of a crazy local or two that mills around your town in a daze, occasionally causing disturbances, but otherwise remains...
The Tribe | Review
Get the Picture: Slaboshpitsky’s Excellent, Memorably Pronounced Debut
In a sea of derivative cinematic components, wholly original ideas seem few and far between. In a...
The Wolfpack | Review
Voyeuristic & Bizarre: A Look Into a Litter of Brothers and Their World of Movies
As an exemplar of the term “stranger than fiction”, The Wolfpack’s...
Cinema Italiano: 2015 Venice Film Festival Predictions
Now that we’ve come out of the Cannes ether, we can examine several of the names glaringly absent from the lineup that may potentially...
The 11th Hour | Review
Sweet Child of Mine: Basinger Buoys Bizarre Psycho Drama
Danish director Anders Morgenthaler (Princess, 2006) returns with The 11th Hour, a strange, psychological drama with...
Madame Bovary | Review
Good Time Gal: Barthes’ Sensible Remake of Flaubert’s Classic Novel
Few literary protagonists have reached the heights of notability as the infamous Madame Bovary, from...
Jurassic World | Review
Nice Splice: Narrative Hasn’t Evolved in Trevorrow’s Dino Reboot
If there’s one aspect depicting the fickle nature of the human consumer the latest chapter in...
Set Fire to the Stars | Review
Suffer the First Vision: Goddard’s Debut Anchored in Episode of Literary Distress
Doomed Welsh poet Dylan Thomas gets a contemporary biopic treatment in Set Fire...
Chagall-Malevich | Review
Painter Man: Mitta’s Return to Filmmaking a Lofty, Honeycombed History Lesson
Ungainly and distractingly saccharine, Russian auteur Aleksandr Mitta returns with Chagall-Malevich, a whimsical biopic...
The Stranger | Review
Stranger Danger: Roth & Amoedo Unveil Derivative Inclinations
Director Eli Roth continues his collaboration with the South American crew from Aftershock (2012), by producing writer...
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl | Review
Fault in Our Tastes: Teenage Death Gets Warmed Over in Gomez-Rejon’s Celebrated Sophomore Film
Taking home the Grand Jury and Audience prize following its warmly...
Hungry Hearts | Review
Heart of Glass: Costanzo’s Uncomfortable, Emotional Glance at Madness
Must every cinematic portrait of mental illness be ‘illuminating?’ Your answer to that question may gauge...
We Are Still Here | Review
From its chilly opening sequences and impressive title unveil, Ted Geoghegan’s slim yet sturdy debut We Are Still Here belongs to a contemporary tradition...
Top 3 Critics’ Picks: Andersson, Slaboshpitsky & Patrick Brice Must Sees this June
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? June...
A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence | Review
Familiar Tune: Andersson Completes Trilogy With Enjoyable, Familiar Chapter
Prolific Swedish filmmaker Roy Andersson tends to work infrequently, taking years, if not decades, between film...
Uncertain Terms | Review
Rebounds and Role-play: Silver’s Latest Returns to Uncomfortable Interactions
With his fourth feature film, Uncertain Terms, indie film director Nathan Silver advances the knack he...
Insidious: Chapter 3 | Review
There Be Demons: Whannell Goes Back to Basics with Third Installment
And so we immerse ourselves even further into the vagaries of the Further with...
Spy | Review
Spy Hard: Feig’s Generally Entertaining Espionage Parody
Director Paul Feig does a James Bond send-up for his latest Melissa McCarthy headlined romp, Spy. But for...
Alias Maria | 2015 Cannes Film Festival Review
Guerillas in the Mist: Rugeles Explores the Jungles in Labored Sophomore Effort
An intriguing perspective within a terrifying environment initially makes for a compelling scenario...
Jupiter Ascending | Blu-ray Review
Premiering as the 'secret screening' at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival shortly before its theatrical premiere, the latest sci-fi extravaganza from the Wachowskis opened...
The Conversation: To Cannes and Back
Unfortunately, this year’s main competition line-up at the Cannes Film Festival ended up being something of an easy target for jaded festival goers. An...
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...
