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Top 3 Critics’ Picks in Theaters this December: Foxtrot, I, Tonya & Happy End
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? Three...
Tracking Shot: Alistair Banks Griffin, Brady Corbet & Karyn Kusama Shooting in December
“Tracking Shot” is a top of month featurette here at IONCINEMA.com that looks at the projects that are moments away from lensing and as...
The Disaster Artist | Review
A Room of One’s Own: Franco’s Sincere Paean to the Art of Failed Art
The notion “Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery,” has assumed...
Wonder Wheel | Review #2
The Wheel of Their Discontent: Allen Stages Crumbling Marital Drama in the Dog Days of Coney Island
As impeccably administered as it is at times...
Video: James Franco’s The Disaster Artist – 2017 TIFF Post Screening Q&A
Winner of the Best Actor award at the Gothams, there is a legit chance that James Franco might end up with another nom for...
The Shape of Water | Review
Creature from the Red Lagoon: Del Toro Gets Sentimental in Cold War Monster Drama
Monsters return as metaphors in Guillermo Del Toro’s latest, The Shape...
Wonder Wheel | Review #1
Woody Allen’s Wheel of Misfortunes: An Opera of Human Frailty
Year after year, films by the prolific Woody Allen seem to build on each...
Sundance ’18: Decker, Moselle, Spiro, Hosking & Zagar Among NEXT Selections
Last year's batch of ten included some primo items in David Lowery's A Ghost Story, Janicza Bravo's Lemon and Justin Chon's Gook (the Sundance...
The Work | Review
Walking the Line: McLeary Finds Freedom in Folsom
The barbed wire and prison walls of Folsom soar over inmates and visitors with a baleful presence,...
Tracking Shot: Reed Morano, Jim Cummings & Harmony Korine Shooting in November
“Tracking Shot” is a top of month featurette here on IONCINEMA.com that looks at the projects that are moments away from lensing. Normally, we...
Giving Thanks: Sundance Film Festival Selection Predictions Recap
After cranberry sauce, stuffing, sweet potatoes and topical discussions along the lines of (did a human turkey just pardoned an actual turkey?), we'll soon...
2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Drake Doremus’ Zoe
We've now arrived to our 75 prediction destination with this final item. A Sundance personality who over time, has developed his own cult following in...
2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Paul Dano’s Wildlife
Once all the "dust" settled from the Venice and TIFF program announcements, the 2017 film festival calendar hourglass pretty much confirmed that Paul Dano's...
2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Elizabeth Chomko’s What They Had
In a move rarely seen these days, Bleecker Street's Andrew Karpen swooped in, preemptively landed the rights to What They Had before it even had...
2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Benh Zeitlin’s Wendy
We've kept our ears peeled to the ground and eyes glued since non-trade related film news began to trickle in 2013, but for the...
2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Justin Kelly’s Welcome the Stranger
With a breakneck pace output, filmmaker Justin Kelly hasn't wasted much time between features since premiering his debut feature at I Am Michael (review) at...
2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Jeremiah Zagar’s We the Animals
Emmy-nominated Jeremiah Zagar last introduced Sundance auds to his 2014 docu look into a prosecution from the masses in Captivated: The Trials of Pamela...
2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Tim Travers Hawkins’ XY Chelsea
We have screen treatments of Frank Serpico, Mark Felt, and Karen Silkwood, and in early 2018 we could have another (anti)hero on the silver...
Video: Chris Smith’s Jim & Andy: the Great Beyond – 2017 TIFF Post Screening Q&A
Out via the Neflix folks in limited release today is docu bijou which had been unveiled at Venice before hitting Toronto's Winter Garden Theatre...
2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Madeleine Olnek’s Wild Nights with Emily
Now in year three of celebrating our awful predictions with concerns to this title, we finally have a status update and official title to...
2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Emma Forrest’s Untogether
A journalist turned author, turned scribe (she was on the Blacklist for LIARS (A-E) in 2009) turned helmer, Emma Forrest wrote and directed her...
2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: David Robert Mitchell’s Under the Silver Lake
We often talk about the all important sophomore film, but the third often yields better results. As might be the case for David Robert...
2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Sebastián Silva’s Tyrel
What does one do when a project falls apart days before shooting? If you're Terry Gilliam you throw your hands up in the air,...
2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Jason Reitman’s Tully
Stamped with an April 20th release date via the Focus Features folks (they picked it up last May), there is no reason to premiere...
2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Peter Brunner’s To the Night
For his fifth feature and English language debut, Austrian helmer Peter Brunner moves into gritty, street-fashioned shoot in NYC. Working with a pair of Safdie...
2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Jennifer Fox’s The Tale
As they were still putting final touches on the project at the midway point of 2017, and didn't drop in the fall fest season,...
2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Desiree Akhavan’s The Miseducation of Cameron Post
One of the choice multi-tasker discoveries of 2014 Sundance edition both behind, and in-front of the camera, Desiree Akhavan recently divulged (to IndieWIRE) just...
2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Marco Proserpio’s The Man Who Stole Banksy
What do Park City and the West Bank have in common? At one point in time, they were both mural sites for Banksy originals....
2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Hannah Fidell’s The Long Dumb Road
Having debuted A Teacher (review) at Sundance back in 2013, she saw her next feature 6 Years (review) premiere at SXSW in 2015. Teaming with the...
2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Sara Colangelo’s The Kindergarten Teacher
An exciting, first feature film credit as a producer for Maggie Gyllenhaal (creatively she is at an important juncture) this could be the Israeli film...
2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Cristina Ibarra & Alex Rivera’s The Infiltrators
The docs are often the toughest nuggets to guess in our annual Sundance predictions, as we had Cristina Ibarra & Alex Rivera's The Infiltrators...
2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Andrew Bujalski’s Support The Girls
If Andrew Bujalski lands at the fest with his third straight film, we'll officially call him a fixture. On the seen since 2002's Funny...
2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: RKSS’ Summer of 84
François Simard, Anouk Whissell and Yoann-Karl Whissell got their first taste of Sundance (and accompanying accolades) with an excellent throwback to VHS era adventures...
2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Meredith Danluck’s State Like Sleep
An artist who doesn't stay put, We thought this directorial debut would have receive the green light same time last year, but aside from...
2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Boots Riley’s Sorry to Bother You
Coming from the world of hip hop, you'd expect Boots Riley to be somewhat of a novice with film in general but a not...
2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Austin Vesely’s Slice
We had pegged this directorial debut as a possible selection for the last Sundance edition, but the A24 folks worked with a slow cook...
2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Crystal Moselle’s Skate Girl
If invited to Park City, expect many of the cast for this film to hit the slopes between screenings. With a brief overview of...
2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Matthew Ross’ Siberia
Matthew Ross' first foray into feature films received its world premiere debut at Sundance (read our review) in 2016, and he was quick to...
2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Sandi Tan’s Shirkers
Forget about Chris Smith's Jim Carrey / Man on the Moon rescued footage docu, we have a true detective treasure hunt that knows no...
2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Michael Mayer’s The Seagull
We were quite surprised that The Seagull didn't drop sometime in 2017, after all, production did take place in 2015. The good news is...
2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Tamara Jenkins’ Private Life
We voiced our hope that we'd see her sometime soon when we launched our inaugural Top 10 American Indie Filmmakers Missing in Action back...
2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Nicolas Pesce’s Piercing
We're honestly a little surprised that Nicolas Pesce's highly anticipated sophomore film didn't drop in 2017 as filming took place earlier in the year. As...
2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Daniel Patrick Carbone’s Phantom Cowboys
Beginning with Berlin and Tribeca Film Fest showings, Daniel Patrick Carbone made several stops on the 2013 film festival circuit with Hide Your Smiling...
2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: David Lowery’s Old Man and the Gun
He was getting ready to hit the editing dock not long after I had the chance to speak to him during the tale end...
2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Jennifer Kent’s The Nightingale
A filmmaker who needs no introduction, the award-winning The Babadook (among our top 20 for 2014) is among the upper echelon titles that premiered at...
2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Jordana Spiro’s Night Comes On
We were pleasantly destabilized by her third, Gummo-esque short film, and as I cited back after the 2013 Sundance edition, Skin (watch here) displayed all...
2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Christina Choe’s Nancy
After building a half dozen short film resume, her feature film debut appears to be the result of a lot of indie blood, sweat...
2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Debra Granik’s My Abandonment
We likened her to Kelly Reichardt with a cinema that should sprout internationally and so we were genuinely surprised when she didn't drop into...
2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Josephine Decker’s Movie No. 1
Part of the new wave of idiosyncratic female auteur voices (Sophia Takal, Sarah Adina Smith, Janicza Bravo, Chloé Zhao and Eliza Hittman come to...
2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Anthony Mandler’s Monster
A heavyweight music video helmer for close to two decades, Anthony Mandler's list of creds reads like Jack Kerouac's Famous 'On the Road' scroll....
