Tag: top-stories
Wild Mountain Thyme [Video Review]
Birds & Bees: Shanley Returns with Shopworn Romance
Director John Patrick Shanley returns with his third feature Wild Mountain Thyme, based on his own 2014...
The Weasels’ Tale [Video Review]
Pop Goes the Remake: Campanella Returns with Ghoulish Remake of Black Comedy
In the 2000s, the New Argentine Cinema gained international prominence thanks to a...
Yalda, a Night for Forgiveness | Review
Killer Ratings: Bakhshi Brings Reality Television Gimmickry to Morbid, Potential Levels
To err is human, to forgive divine---or so we’ve come to accept as a...
Wander Darkly [Video Review]
Collision Visions: Miele Taps Miller for Fractured Memory Exercise
For her fourth feature, director Tara Miele draws upon a traumatic event from her own past...
The Prom [Video Review]
Dance Dance Revolution: Murphy’s Musical a Treacly Affair of the Sweet and Simple
It’s sugar and spice and everything nice in The Prom, Ryan Murphy’s...
Black Bear [Video Review]
Husband and Wives and Bears, Oh My!: Levine’s Dark Dream an Ambiguous, Playful Psychodrama
The crux of our innate creative necessities might require something beyond...
Let Them All Talk [Video Review]
I Heard the Owl Call My Name: Soderbergh Navigates a Tricky Reunion in Bittersweet Drama
Truman Capote once said, among many things, “All literature is...
Education | Review
School of Crock: McQueen Turns His Eyes to the Stars in Final Anthology Installment
Across five films spanning a period of 1969 to 1982, Steve...
Luxor | Review
Hotel Spell: Durra Explores the Tenuousness of the Present Through Romance of the Past
She hasn’t quite lost that loving feeling, which seems to be...
I’m Your Woman | Review
Valley of the Molls: Hart and Her Lonely Hunters Find Solace in Unorthodox Crime Drama
Director Julia Hart presents her second feature of 2020 with...
Video Interview: Zeina Durra – Luxor
The soaked in history backdrop of Egypt serves as a reminder that the past is sometimes more present than one can anticipate and while...
76 Days | Review
76 Days Later: From the Frontlines of Wuhan
As one of the earliest documentaries to cover the Covid-19 epidemic in Wuhan, China, Hao Wu’s 76...
Mank [Video Review]
Hearst & Foremost: Fincher Festoons the Neglected Glory of Herman Mankiewicz
The finicky methods of director David Fincher have themselves become nearly as iconic as...
Another Round | Review
The Libation Bearers: Vinterberg Explores a Collective Mid-life Crisis in Boozy Black Comedy
Thomas Vinterberg returns to his favored motifs, experimental behavioral portraits of Danish...
Alex Wheatle | Review
Odds Against Tomorrow: McQueen’s Anthology Explores Tribulations of Famed Novelist
For the fourth installment of his five-title Small Axe anthology series, director Steve McQueen recuperates...
Red, White and Blue | Review
A Bridge Too Far: McQueen Explores the Inherent Sacrifice of Community Service in Straightforward Drama
With Red, White and Blue, the third film in Steve...
The Life Ahead [Video Review]
In the Mood for Loren: Ponti Resurrects an Icon in Reticent Remake
It’s been over a decade since iconic Italian actress Sophia Loren appeared...
Superintelligence [Video Review]
Artificial Significance: Falcone & McCarthy Go Through Motions in Brainless Comedy
For some filmmakers and their muses, an entire body of output results in a...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Ridley Scott & Kevin Macdonald’s Life In A Day 2020
And for our final item on our predictions list we have a documentary that is technically made a whole bunch of people. It's a...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Bryan Wizemann’s You Mean Everything to Me
Persistence pays off. Bryan Wizemann has been painstakingly hacking away at indie film since 1998's Sense following that with 2005's Losing Ground, 2011's About...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Mona Fastvold’s The World to Come
She premiered her feature debut The Sleepwalker at Sundance back in 2014, and has been busy as a co-scribe working on all three of...
Stardust [Video Review]
Stars Are Blind: Range Paints a Portrait of the Bowie as a Young Man
The risk with creating a project about a major cultural icon...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Lyle Mitchell Corbine Jr.’s Wild Indian
His short film Shinaab was featured at the 2017 edition of Sundance (he also received some TLC from TIFF not once, but twice) and...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Josh Ruben’s Werewolfs Within
Could filmmaker slash actor Josh Ruben become part of a rare and select club of filmmakers who make it in back to back years...
Lovers Rock | Review
Joyful Noise: McQueen Makes the People Come Together in First “Small Axe” Segment
Director Steve McQueen surprises with Lovers Rock, the second leg of his...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Todd Haynes’ The Velvet Underground
Todd Haynes needs no introduction but one day we'll be looking back on his filmography and could create an annotated sub-category of the 60's/70's...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Sebastian Pardo & Riel Roch-Decter’s Untitled A.I & Art Project
After a decade of backing projects such as Ma, Rat Film, Fraud, Automatic at Sea and more recently Crestone, producers Sebastian Pardo and Riel...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Owen Kline’s Two Against Nature
We'll call Two Against Nature the Bermuda Triangle of all our Sundance guesses. An indie comedy that was backed by a talented bunch and...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Jared Frieder’s Three Months
A micro indie project flying low on the radar actually had a tremendous upswing from the get-go when Jared Frieder saw his screenplay land...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Jakob Rørvik’s Thomas in Superposition
Much like Brit filmmaker Daniel Mulloy, Norwegian filmmaker Jakob Rørvik has "owned" the short film space for over a decade now landing accolades from...
Monsoon [Video Review]
Weathering Heights: Khaou Searches for Solace in Stodgy Travelogue
The adage born from Thomas Wolfe’s sentiment notwithstanding, the act of revisiting one’s origins through a...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Robert Pulcini & Shari Springer Berman’s Things Heard and Seen
Another Netflix project on our list sorta filmed under the radar back in November of 2019. Back in their heyday, Robert Pulcini & Shari...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Patrick Brice’s There’s Someone Inside Your House
We're beginning to think that filmmaker Patrick Brice is such a fixture in Park City that he deserves a back alley named in his...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Erin Vassilopoulos’ Superior
Recently featured as a work in progress at the US in Progress during the American Film Festival in Wroclaw, Poland, NYC based Erin Vassilopoulos'...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Oorlagh George’s Stranger With A Camera
Oorlagh George set sail on her directorial debut earlier this year in Northern Ireland on Stranger With A Camera - a project that was...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Theodore Melfi’s The Starling
Production on Theodore Melfi's fourth feature film begin in August of 2019 and he appears to be moving towards more dramatic terrain this time...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Carson Mell’s Some Of Our Stallions
Carson Mell was a legit Sundance discovery and perhaps we can call him an actual triple threat as he premiered his first three shorts...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Simon Barrett’s Seance
A writer on horror items such as Horrible Way to Die (201), You're Next (2011), three segments in the V/H/S projects and another Adam...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Charlie Stratton’s Seacole
With some television work and one feature under his belt In Secret (TIFF '13), Charlie Stratton began lensing Seacole back in March of 2019...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Lila Neugebauer’s Red, White, And Water
The levee might break in 2021 with A24's glut of film product waiting for a world premiere release and this directorial debut might lead...
Shallow Grave(s): Revenge Twice Told in Zarchi’s Landmark “I Spit on Your Grave” Blu-ray Box Set Review
Chances are, if you’re familiar with grindhouse/exploitation films of the 1970s or the output of later auteurs these titles influenced, you’ve heard and likely...
Collective | Review
The Fire Next Time: Nanau Finds Homegrown Corruption in Scandalous Expose
The importance of actual investigation journalism is presented in all its full-blown glory with...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Michael Sarnoski’s Pig
In early 2020, Neon purchased the rights to Gunda (the docu film) and Pig which had completed production in late December of 2019. Shot...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Rebecca Hall’s Passing
One of the most anticipated directorial debuts for a 2021 unveiling comes via actress Rebecca Hall. Based on Nella Larsen’s first published in 1929,...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: John Madden’s Operation Mincemeat
An acquisitions friendly title from across the pound with all the production value trimmings that we feel would have normally splashed in the Premieres...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Jerrod Carmichael’s On the Count of Three
After directing some television items in 2018-19, comedian, actor and obvious star of the The Carmichael Show, Jerrod Carmichael officially decided to move into...
Run [Video Review]
Dial M for Munchausen: Chaganty Beams the Gaslight in Gratifying Sophomore Film
The sanctity of motherhood becomes a questionable axiomatic in Run, the sophomore film...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Tatiana Huezo’s Noche de Fuego
Mexican-Salvadoran filmmaker Tatiana Huezo comes from a docu background however she has been working on her feature debut for a couple of years now....
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Danis Goulet’s Night Raiders
She saw her short films Spin (2004) and Wapawekka (2011) land at the Sundance Film Festival and so it would be a natural progression...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Taika Waititi’s Next Goal Wins
You won't find a better Sundance ambassador than New Zealand's Taika Waititi who has unveiled several films from his filmography in Park City. His...
