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IONCINEPHILE of the Month: Andrew Droz Palermo
IONCINEMA.com’s IONCINEPHILE of the Month feature focuses on an emerging filmmaker from the world of cinema. For those keeping tabs on emerging indie talents,...
IONCINEPHILE of the Month: Andrew Droz Palermo’s Top Ten Films of All Time
Have you ever wondered what are the films that inspire the next generation of visionary filmmakers? As part of our monthly IONCINEPHILE profile, we...
Rich Hill | Review
Born of a Small Town: Droz Tragos & Droz Palermo Regard Three Boys Living With Ingrained Poverty and Troubled Pedigree
With increasing frequency, documentary filmmakers...
The Strange Little Cat | Review
In a Word: Pulchritude
Buried in Cannes' most unassuming and roundly ignored sidebar, ACID (an acronym for what translates to "The Association for the Distribution...
Guardians of the Galaxy | Review
Rocket Fuelled; Gunn Pleasures Summer PG-Spot
It's the end of the world as we know it. Or so the popcorn films of the summer thus...
Child of God | Review
Requiem for a Cave Man: Franco’s McCarthy Adaptation Displays Growth
On a similar directorial trajectory as, let’s say, Joe Swanberg, where quality vs. quantity tends...
Interview: Mark Jackson (War Story)
With the constant reminders of the past affixed to the present, the continual struggle with identity and mental toll associated with the warfare of...
The Almost Man | Review
Growing Pains: Lund’s Debut a Gem of Behavioral Regression
The long hard road to growing up and accepting responsibility takes the center stage in Martin...
Calvary | Review
Trials of Faith Without Error; Glesson’s Good Priest Suffers for Sins of the Fathers
Two years after The Guard, the most commercially successful Irish film...
Criterion Collection: Insomnia | Blu-ray Review
Erik Skjoldbjaerg’s 1997 directorial debut, Insomnia is a prescient prototype of what would now be termed Nordic Noir in today’s global film market. At...
Jordan M. Smith’s Top 10 Best Docs of 2014 So Far
Thanks to the increase in access to small scale non-fiction films through the barrage of streaming services viewers now have access to - Netflix,...
2014 Hot Docs Film Festival Interview: Director Jessica Oreck (The Vanquishing of the Witch Baba Yaga)
Meeting up with director Jessica Oreck at this year’s Hot Docs Film Festival in the lobby of a hotel in the museum district of...
Interview: Andrew Rossi (Ivory Tower)
Andrew Rossi's prior film, Page One: Inside the New York Times, delved into the newspaper industry while it began to teeter on the brink of...
Interview: Petra Costa (Elena)
For director Petra Costa, filmmaking is more than just an artistic expression, but an opportunity for intensely personal emotional dissection. With her most recent...
Interview: AJ Schnack and Nathan Truesdell (Caucus and We Always Lie To Strangers)
Director AJ Schnack and his producing partner Nathan Truesdell had an incredibly busy week at the 2013 Hot Docs Film Festival, peddling a pair...
The Kill Team | Review
Kill or Be Killed: Krauss Meticulously Reassesses the Situation
Part courtroom drama, part frontline footage film contextualized by Morris-esque investigative interviews with those on trial...
Very Good Girls | Review
The Boyfriend Experience: Foner’s Directorial Debut a Derivative Shard
Screenwriter Naomi Foner makes her directorial debut with Very Good Girls, though her preceding reputation...
Dressing for the Occasion: Leo Leigh’s Docu Features a Ping Pong Stylin’ Marty Reisman
Not alike the world chess player superstars or the pool cue strutting creation of The Color of Money's Fast Eddie Felson, eccentric legends are...
Lucy | Review
In the Sky With Diamonds: Besson’s Latest a Crock of Crack-pot Sci-Fi
It’s rather a shame to report that Luc Besson’s latest directorial effort, Lucy,...
A Five Star Life | Review
Perks of Using the Star System: Tognazzi’s Tale a Tad Too Familiar
Maria Sole Tognazzi, daughter of famed actor/director Ugo Tognazzi, visits the mid-life crisis...
Nicholas Bell’s Top 10 Best of 2014 So Far…
#10. The Grand Budapest Hotel
Without a doubt, Anderson’s darkest film to date, this also has to be the richest and most complex of his...
Witness For the Prosecution | Blu-ray Review
As far as pulpy vintage courtroom dramas go, Billy Wilder’s 1957 adaptation of Agatha Christie’s famed play, Witness for the Prosecution, is hard to...
Magic in the Moonlight | Review
Hocus Pocus: Allen’s Latest a Re-hash of All-Too-Familiar Themes
Returning once more to the world of psychics and magicians to inform his breezy comedic styling,...
Blake Williams’ Top 10 Best of 2014 So Far…
#10. The Grand Budapest Hotel
Had I not revisited this upon its blu-ray release earlier this summer, it’d have been at #5 on this list....
Le Chef | Review
Chef Mate: Cohen’s Poke at the Restaurant World Written for Fast Food Mentality
Connoisseurs of world food porn will perhaps take keen interest in the...
Wish I Was Here | Review
Anywhere But Here: Braff’s Kickstarter Baby a Painstaking Smog of Forced Emotion
It’s hard to believe a decade has passed since actor Zach Braff’s directorial...
Fanny | Review
Fanny Feast: Auteuil’s Underwhelming Trilogy Continues
The mid-section of his Pagnol tribute, Fanny promises to give us the female perspective in the crossed lover’s situation...
Lyle | 2014 Outfest Los Angeles LGBT Film Festival Review
Devil’s Due: Satan is an Equal Opportunity Baby Snatcher in Thorndike’s Debut
Credited as a ‘sinister ode to Rosemary’s Baby’ (though, there probably is no...
Boyhood | Review
About a Boy: Linklater’s Unique Experiment a Mostly Enjoyable Endeavor
An experience that is as enhanced by the aura of its experimental nature as it...
Interview: Martha Stephens & Aaron Katz (Land Ho!)
Sporting their own traditional Icelandic sweater (known as the lopapeysa), I had the chance to sit down with Land Ho! creative pair Martha Stephens & Aaron Katz...
2014 Sundance Film Festival: Martha Stephens & Aaron Katz’s Land Ho!
Martha Stephens and Aaron Katz might have made a strong case for working in twos: as a tandem in both the directing and screenwriting...
A Long Way Down | Review
Lost in Translation: Chaumeil’s English Language Debut a Wretched Operation
While his 2010 feature debut, Heartbreaker, which starred Vanessa Paradis and Romain Duris, managed to...
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes | Review
Monkey Trouble: Reeves Get a Crack at Famed Cinematic Simian Franchise
It’s kind of wild to think how much cinematic mileage (now eight films and...
Rage | Review
Cage Against the Machine: Cabezas’ English Debut Labors Through Borrowed Themes
Playing like the cheap echo of David Cronenberg’s A History of Violence, director Paco...
Marius | Review
You’re Horrible, Marius: Auteuil’s Next Stop on the Pagnol Train
At the very least, actor Daniel Auteuil’s return to the director’s seat with the first...
Tammy | Review
Tammy Girl: Falcone’s Debut a Tepid Turkey
Rex Reed might have been better served to save his wayward disparagements about the cinematic talents of Melissa...
Me and You | Review
Unhappy Together: Bertolucci’s Muted Return to the Director’s Seat
Seemingly against the odds, wheelchair bound Bernardo Bertolucci arrives with his first directorial effort, Me and...
Top 3 Critics’ Picks In Theaters this July: Manuel Martin Cuenca’s Cannibal
Cannibal - Manuel Martin Cuenca
Limited Release & VOD – July 25th
Distributor: Film Movement
Awards & Fests: Selected for the 2013 Toronto Int. Film Festival, this...
Top 3 Critics’ Picks In Theaters this July: Aaron Katz & Martha Stephens’ Land Ho!
Land Ho! – Aaron Katz & Martha Stephens
Limited Release – July 11th
Distributor: Sony Pictures Classics
Awards & Fests: Announced as a sleeper hit acquisition at...
Top 3 Critics’ Picks In Theaters this July: Richard Linklater’s Boyhood
Boyhood – Richard Linklater
Limited Release – July 11th
Distributor: IFC Films
Awards & Fests: It had it's unofficial premiere at Sundance, official showing in Berlin (Linklater won...
Interview: Doug Block (112 Weddings)
Being that roughly half of the human population at some point in their life embark on the insanity that is marriage, it's unlikely you've...
112 Weddings | Review
We Are Gathered Here Today To Reconsider: Block Delves Into The Meaning of Marriage Via 20 Years of Wedding Videography
Over the years, director Doug...
They Came Together | Review
Come Undone: Wain’s Cliché Buster Episodically Funny
Every now and then, director David Wain delivers a great film with his certain brand of offbeat humor...
Snowpiercer | Review
Hell Frozen Over: Joon-Ho’s Dystopic Thrill Ride an Arresting Examination of Cold Humanity
His first feature film since 2009’s Mother, as well as his English...
Nothing Bad Can Happen | Review
Book of Job 2: Gebbe’s Divisive Debut High Brow Torture Porn
The only German entry in 2013’s Cannes film festival also happened to be one...
Norte, the End of History | Review
Crime & Punishment: Diaz’s Latest Epic Examines the Banality of Evil
For those accustomed to the cinema of Lav Diaz, the four hour running time...
Begin Again | review
How To Save a Life: Carney’s Anticipated American Film a Pleasantly Loveable
Though trudging through a somewhat ungainly and slightly anachronistic set-up, John Carney’s latest,...
Siddharth | Review
In a Child’s Name: Mehta’s Sophomore Film a Gripping Ordeal
Following up on his 2007 debut, Amal, Toronto based filmmaker Richie Mehta returns to Delhi...
The Last Sentence | Review
Scenes From a Marriage: Troell’s Latest an Engrossing Character Study
Swedish auteur Jan Troell, at 81, is thankfully still making films, and his latest, The...
Venus in Fur | Review
Mighty Aphrodite: Polanski Returns With Spirited Adaptation
The once quite reticent Roman Polanski quickly returns with yet another adaptation of a popular Broadway play, Venus...
