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In Bloom | Review
An Early Frost: Ekvtimishvili & Grob’s Debut a Memoir in Neorealism
The Georgian entry for 2014’s Best Foreign Language Film, In Bloom is the directorial...
Best of 2013: Jordan M. Smith’s Top 20 Films (Picks 5 to 1)
Continued from picks 10 to 6….
10. Blood Brother – Steve Hoover
9. Stories We Tell – Sarah Polley
8. Museum Hours – Jem Cohen
7. Her –...
Cold Comes the Night | Review
Into That Cold Night: Chun’s Sophomore Feature a Likeable Effort
You’re going to have to look past the unfortunate poster art for Cold Comes the...
Black Coffee | Review
Coffee Mate: Harris’s Latest a Heavy-handed, Yet Welcome Reprieve from the Norm
A professed self-taught filmmaker, director Mark Harris’ latest film, Black Coffee, exudes a...
Open Grave | Review
Don’t Fear the Reaper: Lopez-Gallego and the Search for Substance
In 2011, some may recall a found footage moon expedition thriller called Apollo 18, the...
Pauline Detective | Review
Pauline at the Beach: Fitoussi’s Breezy Caper Good for a Laugh
Director Marc Fitoussi seems inclined toward breezy-haired, bauble headed gamines that get jostled around...
Best of 2013: Jordan M. Smith’s Top 20 Films (Picks 15 to 11)
Continued from picks 20 to 16....
20. Fruitvale Station – Ryan Coogler
19. Cutie and the Boxer – Zachary Heinzerling
18. Valentine Road – Marta Cunningham
17. Dirty...
The Rocket | Review
Silver Linings: Morduant’s Debut a Breezy, Formulaic Crowd Pleaser
After winning awards and audience accolades at nearly every film festival it’s screened at (including Berlin,...
Best of 2013: Jordan M. Smith’s Top 20 Films (Picks 20 to 16)
20. Fruitvale Station - Ryan Coogler
Sundance has left a lasting impression this year. Among the lucky few who attended the world premiere of Ryan...
Trieste Kelly Dunn’s Top Ten Films of All Time List
Have you ever wondered what are the films that inspire the next generation of visionary filmmakers, actors and/or actresses? As part of our monthly...
IONCINEPHILE of the Month: Trieste Kelly Dunn (Loves Her Gun)
We're finally back for the latest installment in our favorite profile series. IONCINEMA.com’s IONCINEPHILE of the Month feature focuses on an emerging filmmaker from...
Best of 2013: Nicholas Bell’s Top 10 Films (Picks 5 to 1)
Continued from yesterday's 10-6 countdown, here are my picks 5 thru 1:
10. Fruitvale Station – Ryan Coogler
9. Her – Spike Jonze
8. Gravity – Alfonso...
Tracking Shot: Craig Zobel, Justin Kurzel & Nanni Moretti Shooting in January
We wake from our December holiday production break slumber for a production month of January that has some notable American indie productions, foreign films...
Best of 2013: Nicholas Bell’s Top 10 Films (Picks 10 to 6)
Please note, the absence of titles like Spring Breakers, Paradise: Faith, Frances Ha, No, and The Place Beyond the Pines is due to the...
Post Tenebras Lux | Blu-ray Review
Reportedly, Post Tenebras Lux was met with a hail of boos by critics and audience members alike upon its premiere at the 2012 Cannes...
Museum Hours | Blu-ray Review
Museums are odd places. People gawk, taking in the history and culture on offer, ruminating in silence. People talk, or, more often than not,...
August: Osage County | Review
Suffer the Children: Wells' Adaptation Enjoyable Camp, Hinges on Grandiose Performances
When something sounds too good to be true, it often is, and while John...
Lone Survivor | Review
Casualties of War: Berg’s Brutal Depiction of Failed SEALS Op Career Best
For the purposes of context, one may be interested in noting that Lone...
The Invisible Woman | Review
In Plain Sight: Great Expectations for Fiennes' Sophomore Effort
After his brash, testosterone-fueled directorial debut Coriolanus, Ralph Fiennes fares far better with the quieter, chest-heaving illicit...
47 Ronin | Review
Rawhide Chew: Rinsch’s CGI Laden Retelling a Cardboard Snooze
The story of the 47 Ronin, a Japanese tale based in historical fact that has become...
Grudge Match | Review
Trudge Match: Peter Segal, Cashing Checks
At the end of the day, Peter Segal’s latest directorial effort, Grudge Match, may not be the felonious stink...
The Wolf of Wall Street | Review
Greed Is Great: Scorsese’s Latest a Coke Fueled, Orgiastic Comedy
Reconstructing the based on a true tale account of one Jordan Belfort’s rise through the...
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty | Review
Life is Like a Box of Chalk: Stiller Revamps Thurber for Hollow Melancholy
With its soaring visuals and dizzying soundtrack of expertly placed tunes to...
The Selfish Giant | Review
Riding on the Shoulders of Giants: Barnard Dexterously Makes a Go of Modern British Neo-Realism
The depiction of tumultuous youth enduring the harsh realities of...
Zach Braff’s Wishes for a Sundance Spot; Wish I Was Here to Unspoil in Park City
Toldja! As I had mentioned back in my Sundance predictions set/accurate prediction Zach Braff was a strong contender for a spot in Park City....
Her | Review
High Tech Affairs: Jonze Unites Poets & Processors
In Her, Spike Jonze’s brainy and big hearted exploration of near future human relationships with techno-intelligence, Joaquin...
Paradise: Hope | Review
Grand Finale: Seidl’s Final Chapter Strikes Surprisingly Tender Notes
With Paradise: Hope, the crowning chapter of Austrian auteur Ulrich Seidl’s Paradise Trilogy, the provocateur surprises...
Ryan Koo, Jordana Spiro & Marcella Said Among Sundance’s 2014 Feature Screenwriters Lab
Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces of Film selected Ryan Koo, The Summer of Flying Fish director Marcella Said (right ont pic above) and Jordana...
White Reindeer | Review
Black Christmas: Clark’s Nostalgia Tinged Nightmare of Christmas Tradition
Even those unfamiliar with previous films directed by Zach Clark (Modern Love is Automatic; Vacation!) will...
Blue is the Warmest Color Adds Louis Delluc Prize to Trophy Collection
Regardless that it is predetermined not to win Oscar's Best Foreign gold, Abdellatif Kechiche's latest (no matter what title it goes by) is the...
Toad Road | DVD Review
Known for its selection of unnerving and underrated acquisitions of films that appear to exist on the unconventional fray, Artsploitation Films brings Jason Banker’s...
The Unknown Known: Andrew Sodroski’s Holland, Michigan Tops 2013 Black List
We didn't know it when docu-helmer Errol Morris (The Thin Blue Line, The Unknown Known) signed up for it last July, but by the...
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug | Review
Smaug Hat: Jackson’s Second Entry Back on Track
Beyond the glaring distraction of the 48fps digital cinematography in Peter Jackson’s first installment of his bloated...
Saving Mr. Banks | Review
Sugartime: Hancock Syrupy Recount Gets the Disney Dress Up
There’s a fascinating story lurking somewhere in John Lee Hancock’s Saving Mr. Banks, but it’s relegated...
What’s In a Name? | Review
By Any Other Name: Patellerie & Delaporte’s Debut a Comfortably Forced Farce
Matthieu Delaporte and Alexandre de La Patelliere’s co-directorial debut, What’s in a...
Hours | Review
Katrina and the Hours: Walker’s One Man Show a Dismal Drizzle
With his unfortunate and untimely death so recent in our memories, there is bound...
Night Train to Lisbon | Review
Ride on Time: August and Another Puerile Adaptation
It’s evident that Danish director Bille August favors helming adaptations of challenging novels, though the end result...
American Hustle | Review
Hustle Bustle: Russell Returns With Surprising Verve
Just when you thought David O. Russell’s American Hustle might bow as an attempt at an awards friendly...
Some Velvet Morning | Review
Women Are From Velvet: Labute’s Latest Chapter in Power Struggles of the Sexes
Its title recalling that late 60’s psychedelic pop song from Nancy Sinatra...
Here Comes the Devil | Review
Lock Your Souls Up: Bogliano’s Latest a Decent But Frayed Exercise
Adrian Garcia Bogliano’s tenth feature film, Here Comes the Devil finally shows the Argentinean...
No Longer Funny Games Foes; Corbet Set to Direct Tim Roth, Cosmopolis’ Binoche & Pattinson Pair in “The Childhood of a Leader”
2014 has long been shaping up to be a memorable year for the "actor" Brady Corbet. The indie veteran whose worked with major auteur...
Dada Films Sees Double with Jenee LaMarque’s The Pretty One
It wasn't the best of years for the '13 edition of the Tribeca Film Fest, but there were a couple of mention-worthy items on...
How Do You Like Them Potatoes?; Tribeca Gathers “Beneath the Harvest Sky”
Variety reports that Tribeca are unearthing one of the better U.S indie items to have played at the recent Toronto Int. Film Fest. Featuring...
Sundance 2014: Latest From Amir Bar-Lev, Alex Gibney, Steve James, Joe Berlinger & Greg Barker in Docu Premieres
2014 is turning out to be a damn fine year for docus in Park City and we're not even mentioning the Competition line-up here....
Sundance 2014: Colangelo, Shelton, Corbijn, Winterbottom, Araki & Gareth Evans Among 16 V.I.Ps
The Sundance Film Festival made their final feature film line-ups with the Premieres category announcements. Sixteen films with huge name talent, returnee filmmakers and...
S#x Acts | Review
Sextette: Gurfinkel’s Debut an Uncomfortable Sashay into Female Victimhood
Exuding enough uncomfortable finesse to be ranked as one of several cinematic explorations that appear to...
Caught In the Web | Review
Once Upon a Time, in the Digital Age…: Chen’s Latest a Message Heavy Oddity
A critique of the hounding one sidedness of the omnipresent media...
Tommy Wirkola (Dead Snow: Red vs. Dead) & Adam Wingard (The Guest) Make Return to Park City at Midnight Section
I had a hunch that Cooties (read here) and Adam Wingard's The Guest (read here) might make it into what appears to be a...
Sundance 2014: Rossi, Belzberg, Soechtig Among 16 U.S. Docu Comp Invites
Of the sixteen titles that are listed here there are at least more than half that will be talked about throughout the calendar year...
Sundance 2014: Alex Ross Perry, Michael Tully, Tim Sutton, Sydney Freeland & Mark Jackson Among Stellar Class of 11 NEXT Features
Rolling out it's fifth edition and growing beyond just Park City (Los Angeles hosted a summer event this year) the NEXT section has grown...
