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2022 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Taika Waititi’s Next Goal Wins
2021 came and went and yet New Zealand’s Taika Waititi didn't see his latest hit the fest circuit - perhaps it has to do...
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...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Nicholas Jarecki’s Dreamland
Taking just a tad bit more time in post-production and lining up for what would be some Gary Oldman Mank buzz, the acquisitions friendly...
Rebecca | Review
De Winter of Our Discontent: Wheatley Wavers with Empty Remake of Du Maurier Classic
Remaking a property which was previously adapted by none other than...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #31. Rebecca – Ben Wheatley
Rebecca
A decade into feature filmmaking and Ben Wheatley has taken it upon himself to remake Alfred Hitchcock’s 1940 classic Rebecca, which won the Best...
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...
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...
Sorry to Bother You | Review
Unbridled Creativity: No one is Safe from Riley’s Wackadoo Satire ... Himself Included
There is nothing subtle in Boots Riley's Sorry To Bother You. A singular,...
Interview: Boots Riley – Sorry to Bother You
Writer/Director Boots Riley is no stranger to pushing boundaries. A longtime political activist-rapper, he has already made his bones in music, founding the renowned...
Interview: Omari Hardwick – Sorry to Bother You
Among the cast of misfit supporting characters in Boots Riley's Sorry to Bother You we find Omari Hardwick's take on true corporate ladder machiavellianism...
Boots Riley’s Sorry to Bother You | 2018 Sundance Film Festival World Premiere
Perhaps the most hyped film to premiere at this year's Sundance film festival, the over-sold world preem screening at the Library had plenty of...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #49. Boots Riley’s Sorry to Bother You
Sorry to Bother You
The moment hip hop artist Boots Riley took Sorry to Bother You to the Sundance labs (2015 June Screenwriters Lab and...
Sundance ’18: Morano, Silva, Akhavan & Boots Riley Among U.S. Dramatic Comp Selections
Last year's section of sixteen included such gems as Beach Rats (Directing Award), Brigsby Bear, Ingrid Goes West (Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award), Golden Exits...
Video: Luca Guadagnino’s Call Me by Your Name – 2017 TIFF Post Screening Q&A
Sony Pictures Classics released Call Me by Your Name this past weekend and was the top indie money making opening weekend this year and...
2018 Indie Spirit Noms: Guadagnino’s “Call Me by Your Name” Leads Pack with 6, Benny Safdie Lands 3
It's the head-scratching nominations process where Greta Gerwig's Lady Bird is good enough for the Best Feature category and picks up four nominations in...
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...
Call Me By Your Name | 2017 Sundance Film Festival Review
His Summer of Love: Guadagnino Returns with Perceptive, Tender Sketch of First Love
Presented with an intoxicating combination of old fashioned reticence with bold and...
The Birth of a Nation | Blu-ray Review
Around this time a year ago, Nate Parker’s Sundance Award Winning directorial debut The Birth of a Nation was a surefire bet to be...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2017: #33. Luca Guadagnino’s Call Me by Your Name
Call Me by Your Name
Director: Luca Guadagnino
Writer: Luca Guadagnino, James Ivory, Walter Fasano
A surprise announcement came when Luca Guadagnino was in the middle of...
Free Fire | 2016 BFI London Film Festival Review
Gunfight at Boston, MA: Wheatley’s Portrait of a Vicious Shootout
Massachusetts, 1970s. More precisely, the docks of Boston, where plans for a weapons trade at...
The Birth of a Nation | Review
Born Again: Parker Resuscitates Turner Narrative in Painful Labor of Love
An odd, continued legacy of unquestioned applause greets the reception of actor Nate Parker’s...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2016: #39. Ben Wheatley’s Free Fire
Free Fire
Director: Ben Wheatley
Writers: Ben Wheatley, Amy Jump
British director Ben Wheatley returns with his sixth feature, Free Fire, after amassing a wildly popular following...
The Man from U.N.C.L.E. | Review
Say Uncle: Ritchie Continues String of Studio Pastiche
In a continuation of our culture’s insistence on plumbing the depths of past artifacts from the annals...
