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2015 Sundance Trading Card Series: #30. Nick Case (Take Me to the River)
Eric Lavallee: Name me three of your favorite “2014 discoveries” ...
Nick Case: 1.) Favorite Musician: Keegan DeWitt. Keegan is the lead singer for the...
2015 Sundance Trading Card Series: #29. Marcus Cox (Tangerine)
Eric Lavallee: Name me three of your favorite “2014 discoveries”...
Marcus Cox: Discovered; Autobiography of a Yogi, by Yogananda and I love it. Discovered a...
2015 Sundance Trading Card Series: #28. Karrie Cox (Tangerine)
Eric Lavallee: Name me three of your favorite “2014 discoveries” ...
Karrie Cox: 1. Red House Painters, “Cruiser”. 2. Andrew Wyeth, “Christina’s World” @ MOMA...
2015 Sundance Trading Card Series: #27. Peter Gilbert (Unexpected/Digging for Fire)
Eric Lavallee: Name me three of your favorite “2014 discoveries”...
Peter Gilbert: Musician: Ben and Leo Sidran. Movie: Ida. Book: Short Nights of The Shadow...
Pervert Park | 2015 Sundance Film Festival Review
Sex Offender Stigma: Barkfors Take Taboo Tour
It’s not an easy subject to broach let alone discuss. The scarlet letter burns bright as sex offenders...
City of Gold | 2015 Sundance Film Festival Review
Eating One's Way To Enlightenment: Gabbert Follows Gold Down A Rabbit-Hole Of Crucial Cultural Cuisine
Everyone in Los Angeles knows that Jonathan Gold is the...
2015 Sundance Trading Card Series: #26. Andrea Roa (Unexpected)
Eric Lavallee: Name me three of your favorite “2014 discoveries” ...
Andrea Roa: Tranparent, The Babadook, Fun Home.
Lavallee: With regards to the casting choice of...
2015 Sundance Trading Card Series: #25. Naomi Scott (The Overnight)
Eric Lavallee: Name me three of your favorite “2014 discoveries”...
Naomi Scott: Force Majeure. Artist Aaron Morse. Natasha Lyonne's Instagram account: @nlyonne
Lavallee: How did Patrick Brice’s The Overnight land on...
2015 Sundance Trading Card Series: #23. Sean Durkin (James White)
Eric Lavallee: Name me three of your favorite “2014 discoveries”...
Sean Durkin: Jesse Marchant's self titled album was my favorite of the year. I read...
2015 Sundance Trading Card Series: #22. Antonio Campos (James White)
Eric Lavallee: Name me three of your favorite “2014 discoveries” ...
Antonio Campos: Black Mirror (TV series). People Who Eat Darkness (Book). Nilsson Schmilsson by...
2015 Sundance Trading Card Series: #21. Ryan Zacarias (Entertainment)
Eric Lavallee: Name me three of your favorite “2014 discoveries”...
Ryan Zacarias: 1. Thomas Dinger's Fur Mich (album), Manabu Yamanaka (photographer), Ricardo Silva's Navajazo (film).
Lavallee:...
2015 Sundance Trading Card Series: #19. Megan Mercier (Unexpected)
Eric Lavallee: Name me three of your favorite “2014 discoveries”...
Megan Mercier: Kishi Bashi (music), Mike White (writer/actor/director), Black Mirror (TV show).
Lavallee: Not unlike the...
2015 Sundance Trading Card Series: #18. Chris Bergoch (Tangerine)
Eric Lavallee: Name me three of your favorite “2014 discoveries”...
Chris Bergoch: I really enjoyed the pre-Broadway run of The Hunchback of Notre Dame at...
2015 Sundance Trading Card Series: #17. Gregg Turkington (Entertainment)
Eric Lavallee: Name me three of your favorite “2014 discoveries”...
Gregg Turkington: 1. The Skies Belong To Us, Brendan Koerner's book on the "golden age"...
2015 Sundance Trading Card Series: #16. Craig Zobel (Z for Zachariah)
Eric Lavallee: Name me three of your favorite “2014 discoveries”...
Craig Zobel: "The Wall," 2012, Julian Pölsler (on Netflix!), Music - the back catalog of The...
2015 Sundance Trading Card Series: #15. Kris Swanberg (Unexpected)
Eric Lavallee: Name me three of your favorite “2014 discoveries” ...
Kris Swanberg: I got really in to goats milk yogurt, Taylor Swift, classic sports films,...
2015 Sundance Trading Card Series: #14. Patrick Brice (The Overnight)
Eric Lavallee: Name me three of your favorite “2014 discoveries”...
Patrick Brice: It Follows by David Robert Mitchell was one of the best cinematic experiences...
2015 Sundance Trading Card Series: #13. Adam Salky (I Smile Back)
Eric Lavallee: Name me three of your favorite “2014 discoveries”...
Salky: Book: Devil in The White City. Gripping. App: Cpro Craigslist Client. It’s the reason...
2015 Sundance Trading Card Series: #10. Sean Baker (Tangerine)
Eric Lavallee: Name me three of your favorite “2014 discoveries”...
Sean Baker: 1) Ruben Östlund - After being blown away by Force Majeure, I made...
2015 Sundance Trading Card Series: #9. Matt Sobel (Take Me to the River)
Lavallee: Name me three of your favorite “2014 discoveries”...
Matt Sobel: The Windup Bird Chronicle, Borges, Picnic at Hanging Rock, and Robyn
Lavallee: They say “write...
2015 Sundance Trading Card Series: #8. Kenny Riches (The Strongest Man)
Eric Lavallee: Name me three of your favorite “2014 discoveries”...
Kenny Riches: The album Grand America by Magic Mint. The album Apple Juice and Whiskey...
Killers | Review
The Killers Inside Me: The Mo Bros’ International Serial Spree
Directing duo Kimo Stamboel and Timo Tjahjanto, better known as the Mo Brothers, team for the slice...
Song One | Review
Title Track: Barker-Froyland’s Cloying Debut Plays Familiar Tune
“Sad song at night, hipster’s delight” should be the opening line in Kate Barker-Froyland’s mournful, musically inclined...
2015 Sundance Trading Card Series: #3. Michael J. Larnell (Cronies)
Eric Lavallee: Name me three of your favorite “2014 discoveries”...
Michael Larnell: Paris, France, Sundance Film Festival, Ferguson Protesters (The Activists)
Lavallee: What was the genesis for...
Cake | Review
Let Them Have It: Barnz Banks on Adept Aniston
Grief is a prickly emotion to convey within the confines of the indie American melodrama, a...
2015 Sundance Trading Card Series: #2. Charles Poekel (Christmas, Again)
Eric Lavallee: Name me three of your favorite “2014 discoveries”...
Charles Poekel: Moodymann - Moodymann. Kentucker Jones. First World War Poems from the Front. Festival...
2015 Sundance Trading Card Series: #1. Diego Ongaro (Bob and the Trees)
Eric Lavallee: Name me three of your favorite “2014 discoveries”... Diego Ongaro: French singer Bertrand Belin, the town of Terlingua, Texas on the edge of...
2015 Sundance Trading Card Series: #20. Rob Cristiano (Bob and the Trees)
Eric Lavallee: Name me three of your favorite “2014 discoveries”...
Rob Cristiano: 1. I'm new to the work of Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu, so when I...
The Duke of Burgundy | Review
The Body and the Whip: Strickland’s Sublime Homage to Erotic Cinema
Beginning like something that should have been called Exploits of a Chambermaid, replete with...
Black Sea | Review
Lower Depths: MacDonald’s Latest a Tense Deep Sea Treasure Hunt
While it’s being treated to a December release in his native UK, director Kevin MacDonald’s...
The Humbling | Review
Or The Unexpected Convenience of Sexism: Levinson's Perplexing but Deviously Funny Stab at Roth
Decades passed between initial adaptations of novelist Philip Roth’s novels (1969’s...
R100 | Review
Joy Pain Club: Matsumoto’s Latest Insistent Weirdness Uneven
After his delightful if belabored 2007 debut Big Man Japan put him on the map, director Hitoshi...
Criterion Collection: My Winnipeg | Blu-ray Review
You certainly can and probably should go home again, at least according to the faux approximation of himself in the 2007 pseudo-documentary/experimental homage My...
Through the Looking-Glass…Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2016: #1. Juan Antonio Bayona’s A Monster Calls
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...
Through the Looking-Glass…Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2016: #2. Jennifer Kent’s The Nightingale
The Nightingale
Director: Jennifer Kent // Writer: Jennifer Kent
As she basks in the positive fall out of her incredibly well received directorial debut, The Babadook,...
Through the Looking-Glass…Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2016: #3. Fabrice du Welz’s Message From the King
Message From the King
Director: Fabrice du Welz // Writers: Oliver Butcher, Stephen Cornwell
Belgian director Fabrice du Welz announced himself with a memorable debut over...
Through the Looking-Glass…Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2016: #4. Ulrich Seidl’s Herr Grasl
Herr Grasl
Director: Ulrich Seidl // Writer: Ulrich Seidl
After premiering his monolithic Paradise trilogy across 2012 and 2013, along with the long gestating documentary project...
Through the Looking-Glass…Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2016: #5. Mia Hansen-Love’s The Future
The Future
Director: Mia Hansen-Løve // Writer: Mia Hansen-Løve
Actress turned director Mia Hansen-Løve (married to auteur Olivier Assayas) has quickly become one of the most notable contemporary French...
Through the Looking-Glass…Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2016: Picks 100 to 6
While DC and Marvel might already have a lock on several future release dates past the 2015 campaign with the Coen Bros. circling February...
Exclusive Sundance Clip: No Left-Over Trees in Charles Poekel’s Christmas, Again
Yesterday we featured an exclusive clip for the <=> section confrère Kenny Riches' The Strongest Man, today we have another look at one of the...
Little Accidents | Review
Casualties of Class War: Colangelo’s Well Performed, Soporific Debut
The directorial debut of Sara Colangelo, Little Accidents, finds a filmmaker afforded the possibility to expand...
Blackhat | Review
Black in the Saddle: Mann’s Cyber Thriller Forgets Thrills
Though clearly uninterested in providing conventional thrills with his first theatrical release in six years, director...
Black November | Review
Sweet, Oily November: Amata’s Agonizingly Clunky Issue Film
Nigerian filmmaker Jeta Amata’s fourth feature Black November sports a slew of notable American faces in this...
Exclusive Sundance Clip: No Beating Around the Bush in Kenny Riches’ The Strongest Man
The likes of Alex Ross Perry, Ana Lily Amirpour, Gillian Robespierre and Michael Tully populated the eleven-set selection last year, and it's become such...
Top 25 Most Anticipated Studio Films of 2015: #1. Jeff Nichols’ Midnight Special
Midnight Special
Director: Jeff Nichols // Writer: Jeff Nichols
Jeff Nichols has been a steadily rising director since his excellent 2007 debut, Shotgun Stories, which first...
Top 25 Most Anticipated Studio Films of 2015: #2. Neill Blomkamp’s Chappie
Chappie
Director: Neill Blomkamp // Writers: Neill Blomkamp, Terri Tatchell
After the unprecedented success of his debut, District 9 (2009), South African director Neill Blomkamp thankfully...
Top 25 Most Anticipated Studio Films of 2015: #3. Derek Cianfrance’s The Light Between Oceans
The Light Between Oceans
Director Derek Cianfrance // Writers: Derek Cianfrance, M.L. Stedman
Derek Cianfrance surfaced to the forefront of the best new American directors with...
Top 25 Most Anticipated Studio Films of 2015: #4. Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight
The Hateful Eight
Director: Quentin Tarantino // Writer: Quentin Tarantino
The film that almost wasn’t due to a draft of the script being leaked in early...
Top 25 Most Anticipated Studio Films of 2015: #5. Alejandro González Iñárritu’s The Revenant
All things documentary, foreign and American independent film are what the staff unabashedly bleeds for here at IONCINEMA.com. Film snobbery aside, we've identified twenty-five studio film offerings...
Son of a Gun | Review
Gunsmoke: Avery’s Able-bodied Debut Dulled by Familiar Tropes
The less familiar you are with the dramatic crime genre, perhaps the more engaged you’ll be with...
