Tag: top-stories
Snatched | Review
Those Who Love Me Can Take the Trainwreck: Levine Streamlines the Diffident Return of Hawn into So-So Mother-Daughter Comedy
More often than note, notable actresses...
Right Now, Wrong Then | Blu-ray Review
Recently formed distribution label Grasshopper Film has already managed to build a formidable reputation by saving a number of auteur driven art-house titles from...
The Conversation: Regarding Un Certain Regard – Top 3 Most Anticipated Picks
Entering its 39th year of existence, parallel sidebar Un Certain Regard once more sports a mixture of intriguing newcomers alongside noted auteurs in the...
IONCINEMA.com 6.0
Nicholas Bell and I will be in the trenches (to be precise: Day 9 / week 2 ) of Cannes Film Festival when IONCINEMA.com...
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 | Review
A surprise hit when it surpassed expectations back in 2014, James Gunn’s Guardians of the Galaxy raked in over 700 million at the box...
The Dinner | Review
Principles of Privilege: Moverman Dresses Morality Drama in American Clothes
Susan Sontag once famously wrote, “The white race is the cancer of human history,” an...
The Lovers | Review
The One You’re With: Jacobs Brings Mature Gaze to Dark Marital Comedy
Imagine if George and Martha actually had allowed themselves the opportunity to derive...
A Woman’s Life | Review
When a Potiche Ascends the Stairs: Brizé’s Winning, Textured de Maupassant Adaptation
Although cinematic adaptations of French writer Guy de Maupassant still occur with some...
The Conversation: Top 3 Most Anticipated Directors’ Fortnight Picks: Denis, Baker & Dumont
Cannes 2017 is already a notable edition thanks to the festival's inclusion of auteur helmed television entries, and (to the chagrin of some traditional...
The Circle | Review
Like a Record Round: Ponsoldt Spins the Wheels with Silly Tech Thriller
James Ponsoldt launches uneasily into mainstream studio territory with the internet thriller The...
Everybody’s Life | 2017 COLCOA French Film Festival Review
Au Beaune Pain: Lelouch Continues with Frivolous Comedy Spackle
Somewhere along the way Palme d'Or and Oscar winning auteur Claude Lelouch (1966’s A Man and...
Rupture | Review
Walking into Spiderwebs: Shainberg Returns with Characterless Genre Effort
A decade after the somewhat unwarranted critical drubbing of Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus...
Criterion Collection: Rumble Fish | Blu-ray Review
The 1980s began roughly for Francis Ford Coppola, one of the most lionized American auteurs ever, whose streak of the 1970s was an unmitigated...
Daughters of the Dust | Blu-ray Review
Potent words open up Julie Dash’s masterful debut, the landmark independent feature Daughters of the Dust (1991). A matriarch, grappling with her family’s (including...
Ice Mother |2017 Tribeca Film Festival Review
All That Weather Allows: Slama Formulates Empathetic Character Drama from Microwaved Melodrama
Taking a page from a formula established by Douglas Sirk’s classic soapy melodrama...
The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Maki | Review
On a Black and White Day You Can See Forever: Kuosmanen Pleasantly Upends Expectations with Debut
Dressed up as a historical biopic of Finnish boxer...
Unforgettable | Review
It Must Have Been Love: Di Novi Debuts with Classic Camp Tropes
For her directorial debut, Unforgettable, producer Denise Di Novi attempts to resurrect the...
Slack Bay | Review
Bay of Pigs: Dumont Sails Away into Macabre Absurdity
Stated best within the immortal and oft referenced introduction to Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina, “Happy families are...
The Student | Review
Class Act: Serebrennikov Illustrates the Perils of Fundamentalism
Kirill Serebrennikov, one of several rising auteurs from Russia’s troubling political regime, reaches his widest platform yet...
Criterion Collection: Buena Vista Social Club | Blu-ray Review
The name Buena Vista Social Club is a recycled moniker, one which has acquired several layers of cultural resonance since it became absorbed into...
The Conversation: Courting Quinzaine
Following last week’s announcement of the main competition program, all eyes are now focused on Edouard Waintrop’s selection for the 2017 Directors' Fortnight (April...
The Fate of the Furious | Review
Fated Attraction: Gray Delivers the Expected in Mind Numbing Franchise Entry
Following the box office success of 2015’s Straight Outta Compton, his most relevant in...
My Entire High School Sinking Into the Sea | Review
Teenage Dirtbag, Baby: Shaw’s Odd, Amusing Portrait of Stylized Teen Angst
If some teenage version of Reading Rainbow coughed up a hallucinatory fever dream into...
The Lost City of Z | Review
Zed and Buried: Gray’s Period Adventure a Meticulous Throwback of Epic Filmmaking
American auteur James Gray unveils his most provocative film yet with the painstaking,...
IONCINEPHILE of the Month: Logan Sandler’s Top Ten Films of All Time List
Have you ever wondered what are the films that inspire the next generation of visionary filmmakers? As part of our monthly IONCINEPHILE profile, we...
IONCINEPHILE of the Month: Logan Sandler (Live Cargo)
IONCINEMA.com’s IONCINEPHILE of the Month feature focuses on an emerging filmmaker from the world of cinema. This month we feature American indie helmer Logan...
The Conversation: Producer Christine Vachon
Not only a trailblazer but continual champion of queer film, producer Christine Vachon continues to be one of the most prolific risk takers in...
Sweet Country | Review
Once Upon a Time in Australia: Thornton’s Western-inspired Saga of Violent Racial Discrimination
Racial tensions in Australian society are given historic treatment in the outback-Western...
The Ticket | Review
To Gain the World: Fluk’s Allegorical Fairy Tale Treads Perfunctory Territory
Pope Francis described materialism as ‘spiritual cancer’ in that the idolatry of earthly possessions...
Their Finest | Review
A Screen of Their Own: Scherfig Concocts Winning WWII Romantic Comedy
Danish director Lone Scherfig, best known for her Dogme 95 breakout Italian for Beginners...
Aftermath | Review
No Highway in the Sky: Lester’s Inane Exploitation of Compounded Grief
Director Elliott Lester takes a hard left into slipshod terrain with his latest feature,...
Truman | Review
The Dog Stops Here: Gay’s Subtle Drama Grapples with Saying Goodbye
Although it offers nothing thematically new on the clichéd scenario of the disease film,...
Colossal | Review
Seoul of the Matter: Vigalondo’s Environmental Impact Creature Feature Unique but Wonky
Spanish director Nacho Vigalondo scores major points for ambition and uniqueness in his...
The Assignment | Review
A Dish Best Served Bold: Hill’s Revenge-Thriller a Sleazy Mix of Action and Body Horror
Grindhouse groupies will have something to celebrate with the latest...
The Conversation: Producer Megan Ellison
Producer Megan Ellison quickly ascended the ranks as of the most notable and recognizable US film producers over the last decade, working with a...
Ghost in the Shell | Review
Dispirited Away: Sanders Succeeds with Somber Live-Action Remake of Cult Manga
The essence of Masamune Shirow’s 1989 cult manga Ghost in the Shell automatically lends...
Cezanne et Moi | Review
Their Brilliant Careers: Thompson’s Flavorless Exploration of Famed Friendship
Those hoping for an invigorating comeback from Daniele Thompson following her egregiously ludicrous It Happened in...
The Zookeeper’s Wife | Review
My Antonina: Chastain Saves the Day in Glossy Holocaust Drama
As a byproduct of commodifying historical based cinema, we’ve become numb and desensitized to depictions...
Criterion Collection: Blow-Up | Blu-ray Review
Italian auteur Michelangelo Antonioni ended the 1960s, his most consequential and revered cinematic period, with a legendary bang. Following his quartet of brooding treatments...
The Conversation: Producer Vincent Maraval
Since its inception in the late 1990s as a subsidiary of Studiocanal, before breaking off on its own in 2002, French distribution company Wild...
Life | Review
In Space No One Can See You Steal: Espinosa Imitates another Celluloid Form
The vastness of space and the limitlessness of the universe are abstract,...
I, Olga Hepnarova | Review
Gray is the Cruelest Color: Kazda and Weinreb Resurrect a Murderess
Unlike the hopeful social realism angle of the comparably titled Palme d’Or winning I,...
Metamorphoses | Review
Europa, Europa: Honore Eloquently Updates Ovid for Masterful, Playful Adaptation
There really isn’t a modern counterpart (even if Francois Ozon might come close) for the...
The Conversation: Producer Olivier Père
Since joining ARTE France Cinema in 2013, producer Olivier Père has become a prolific fixture on the Croisette. Making a bow in Un Certain...
Beauty and the Beast | Review
The Beast Must Die: Condon’s Expensive Rehash is Fairy Tale Facsimile
For a film with a budget of three hundred million claiming to be the...
After the Storm | Review
Together Again: Koreeda Unveils another Bittersweet Carefully Constructed Familial Melodrama
For the past decade or so, Japanese auteur has conquered the market on sharply observed...
Song to Song | Review
Music Makes the People: Malick Slathers Austin, Texas with Signature Emotional Ennui
Fragments of lovers drowning beneath the weight of their own expectations and stagnant...
Suntan | Review
Death in Greece: Papadimitropoulos Examines a Doctor and His Devils with Engrossing Character Portrait
An uncomfortable but prolific subset of the psychological drama would...
Kong: Skull Island | Review
Kong’s Crib: Vogt-Roberts Strains Weak Characters Through Special Effects Pageant
In the continuing tradition of flinging fledgling indie directors into studio tent pole franchise reboots,...
The Ottoman Lieutenant | Review
The Turkish Lieutenant’s Woman: Ruben Stumbles on Tedious War Time Romance
At one point, director Joseph Ruben was the go-to guy for glossy B-grade...
