Tag: Zazie Beetz
Joker: Folie à Deux | Review
Joke’s On Us: Phillips Composes an Empty, Boring Spectacle
Kudos to Todd Phillips for forcing US audiences to be confronted with the intriguing subtitle...
The Harder They Fall [Video Review]
Zest of the West: Samuels’ Western Soap Opera Long on Style, Short on Substance
In a film which plays as both recuperation and revisionism,...
Interview: Edson Oda – Nine Days
Edson Oda’s debut feature Nine Days, is, quite simply, miraculous. This spiritual-fiction (“spi-fi”—coined by supporting lead Benedict Wong) film follows Will (Winston Duke in...
2020 Sundance Film Festival: Janicza Bravo’s Zola, Josephine Decker’s Shirley & Eliza Hittman’s Never Rarely Sometimes Always in U.S. Dramatic Comp
Among the sixteen narrative feature films announced today all vying for Grand Jury Prize Award we have highly anticipated items from Janicza Bravo (Zola),...
Babak Anvari’s Wounds | 2019 Sundance Film Festival
Celebrated debut film Under the Shadow set in the war-torn Tehran of the 1980s has a lot of things going for it beyond the...
Joker | 2019 Toronto Intl. Film Festival Review
The Day the Clown Cried: Phillips Tries to Provoke the Herd in Adult Comic Book Origin Story
As another cinematic iteration of the eponymous Joker...
Lucy in the Sky | Review
Loosey Goosey: Hawley Gets Histrionic with Uneven Melodrama
At the end of Now, Voyager (1942) the chain-smoking Bette Davis delivers her iconic line to Paul...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Independent Films of 2019: #24. Benedict Andrews’ Against All Enemies
Against All Enemies
Another highly anticipated sophomore feature in our countdown, Benedict Andrews expands the size of canvas moving from the duet in Una to...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Independent Films of 2019: #25. Babak Anvari’s Wounds
Wounds
Babak Anvari's Sundance break out debut in 2016's Under the Shadow solidified his standing within the genre, and so it was no surprise that...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #85. Babak Anvari – Transgression
Another Sundance alumni who broke out big at the fest with Under the Shadow, Babak Anvari quickly lined up a pair of projects with...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #32. Steven Soderbergh – High Flying Bird
Taking a page not from Sean Baker, but from his own proclivity to shoot on the format which best suits the narrative's needs, Steven...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #4. Benedict Andrews – Against All Enemies
After making his debut entrance with Una (read our review), Australian theatre and filmmaker Benedict Andrews didn't waste much time moving directly into his sophomore gig with the...
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...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Austin Vesely’s Slice
Like several other media folks, this new project only came to our attention when the cool kids in film distribution landed the rights. With...
