Tag: Tye Sheridan
The Order | 2024 Venice Film Festival Review
The True Story of a Racist Gang: Kurzel Explores Formative Chapter of American Domestic Terrorism
There’s a brooding, sinister quality to Justin Kurzel’s filmmaking, whose...
Asphalt City | Review
Angel Heart: Sauvaire Serves Savior Complex in EMS Thriller
“It’s easier with wings than without,” was the tagline for Wim Wenders’ 1987 film Wings of...
Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire’s Black Flies – 2023 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 2
One of the last two film items added to the competition this year, Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire's Black Flies makes it three for three on the...
Third Responder: Katherine Waterston Added to Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire’s “Black Flies”
Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire's Black Flies (a project that has been kicking around for a while now) has officially went into production this week in NYC...
The Tender Bar [Video Review]
Producers: George Clooney, Grant Heslov, Ted Hope.
Executive producers: Barbara A. Hall, J.R. Moehringer.
Director: George Clooney.
Screenplay: William Monahan, based on the memoir by J.R. Moehringer.
Camera:...
The Card Counter | 2021 Venice Film Festival Review
January Man: Schrader Fans the Underbelly in Morose Facade of Lost Souls
Paul Schrader has obsessively charted the propensity of man's repressed compulsions consuming even...
Voyagers [Video Review]
It’s the Journey, Not the Destination: Burger Hurtles into Space for Humanity’s Last Stand
Perhaps it’s not what Emerson envisioned, but the sentiment remains the...
The Night Clerk | Review
Spy Hard: Cristofer Returns with Faulty Noir
It’s been nearly twenty years since Pulitzer Prize winning scribe Michael Cristofer has developed a theatrical feature, last...
Interview: Rick Alverson – The Mountain
The Mountain feels like a departure for Rick Alverson, whose brand of deliberately challenging and unconventional cinema is evolving beyond the scope of his...
The Mountain | Review
Who’s Wally?: Alverson Goes Retro with Punishing, Complex Period Drama
Always intent on making his audience do some of the work, American indie helmer Rick Alverson...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #60. Michael Cristofer – The Night Clerk
While we commonly associate Sundance with youngling breakout talents, young-at-heart Pulitzer Prize winning playwright, screenwriter (Bonfire of the Vanities) and actor (most recently Evil...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #55. Rick Alverson – The Mountain
There are a slew of festival preemed goodies in Her Smell, Birds of Passage, Donnybrook, High Life, Gloria Bell, Fistful of Dirt and even Errol...
Friday’s Child | 2018 SXSW Film Festival Review
Edward's Coming of Age Thriller on the Fringe is a Big Mood
Some films aren’t meant to be enjoyed, some instead exist to agitate and...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #1. Rick Alverson’s The Mountain
The Mountain
For his acerbic, contre-courant, alive cinema and his brand of sagacity in the back to back offerings of The Comedy (2012) and Entertainment...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #38. A.J. Edwards’ Friday’s Child
Friday’s Child
“Sponging both formal technique and spiritual inflection to create a film that looks, sounds and feels like the work of Malick, yet stands...
2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: A.J. Edwards’ Friday’s Child
A Terrence Malick school of cinema apprentice, there are certain parallels that can be drawn between the ethos, pathos or filmmaker conditioning of A.J. Edwards....
Detour | Review
Byway Bric-a-Brac: Smith Disappoints with Undistinguished Neo-noir
If the title sounds familiar, it’s because British director Christopher Smith is borrowing from the moniker from Edgar...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Alexandre Moors’ The Yellow Bird
Once a genre that was box office poison and an area that indie film did not want to address either, there has a resurgence...
Last Days in the Desert | DVD Review
Ewan McGregor stars as both Jesus and the devil in Rodrigo Garcia’s seventh narrative feature, Last Days in the Desert, which premiered at the...
Last Days in the Desert | Review
Just By Looking At It: Garcia’s Hollowed Jesus Flick
At one time an adept purveyor of what could loosely be termed the modernized ‘women’s picture’...
Alexandre Moors Has Huston, Aniston, Sheridan & Ehrenreich Reporting for Duty in “The Yellow Birds”
His cold, steely biopic Blue Caprice might have not received the same fanfare as Ain’t Them Bodies Saints, but both were nonetheless stellar offerings at...
Dark Places | Review
Grim Girl: Pacquet-Brenner’s Adaptation Brandishes Relentlessly Contrived Twists
“I have a meanness in me,” warns the omniscient narrator of Dark Places, as voiced by a...
When Life Gives you Lemons, make O.J; Magnolia Fill Three Cups Worth with Alverson’s “Entertainment”
As discussed in our recent post Sundance Film Festival assessment of the NEXT section distribution deals, we noticed that there was some fine fruit at the...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Rick Alverson’s Entertainment
It may be too early to call him an American cousin akin to the quasi-dark humor of Roy Andersson and Aki Kaurismäki, but is third...
Rubber Chicken Blues; Cera, Papoulia, Stockwell & Tye Sheridan Join Alverson’s “Entertainment”
Brooke Bernard, Ryan Zacarias, and Ryan Lough's Nomadic Independence announced that Rick Alverson's Entertainment is officially in greenlight mode and cast alongside the already pegged Gregg Turkington and...
2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Kyle Wilamowski’s Grass Stains
He has a etched his name on a couple of Sundance entries as a musical adviser on Snow Angels and as a key production...
The Future is Now: Top 20 New Faces from TIFF 2013
Now that the dust has settled and the behemoth TIFF is in our rear-view mirror, the IONCINEMA.com team are comparing notes, grading films and...