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Monday [Video Review]
Wish It Were Sunday: Papadimitropoulos Peddles Bad Romance in Ex-Pat Whirligig
Toxic relationships and fair-weather romances are abundantly attenuated in the cinematic realm, the various...
Outside the Wire [Video Review]
Android Schadenfreude: Hafstrom Soldiers to the Future with Familiar Agenda
Anthony Mackie is the computer who wore combat gear in Outside the Wire, the latest...
Shadow in the Cloud | Review
A Face in the Cloud: Liang Cruises on Kooky with WWII Sci-Fi
There’s something to be said for a bonkers mishmash of genre tones and...
Bad Education | Review
A Touch of Class: Finley Explores Famed Embezzlement Scandal
Director Cory Finley revisits one of the education system’s most notorious scandals in Bad Education, an...
Interview: Alistair Banks Griffin – The Wolf Hour
For his sophomore feature, Alistair Banks Griffin proposes a phobia friendly transgressive and forbidding drama that makes strange bedfellows out of the process of...
Honey Boy | Review
Tears of a Clown: Har’el and LaBoeuf Exorcise Demons
Honey Boy is a shockingly personal movie where Shia LaBoeuf plays his own dad. If that...
Interview: Nia Dacosta – Little Woods
A New York-native, first time writer/director Nia DaCosta premiered her poignant family drama, Little Woods, on home turf at Tribeca 2018. Set in the...
Interview: Nia DaCosta – Little Woods | 2015 January Screenwriters Lab
Selected for the US Narrative Competition at the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival, we've been tracking Nia DaCosta's feature debut project since sitting down with...
Chad Hartigan Baits Jack O’Connell, Raul Castillo and Soko for ‘Little Fish’
Last week we reported that Chad Hartigan selected Blacklist screenplay Little Fish with Olivia Cooke attached, this week, THR reports that Jack O’Connell, Raul...
Alistair Banks Griffin’s The Wolf Hour | 2019 Sundance Film Festival
Once again placing his player(s) through the ringer, Alistair Banks Griffin moves from outdoorsy existentialism and moral quicksand in (2011's Two Gates of Sleep)...
Alma Har’el’s Honey Boy | 2019 Sundance Film Festival
When life gives you lemons, make a feature film out of it. A union that came about by a mutual appreciation artistic sensibilities, Alma...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Independent Films of 2019: #17. Cory Finley’s Bad Education
Bad Education
Moving from a brilliant dark comedy (Thoroughbreds) off campus mind-games to shark infested waters of the high school experience, for Cory Finley's sophomore...
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: #26. Alma Har’el’s Honey Boy
Honey Boy
Not unlike Kitty Green, Alma Har’el moves from a pair of free flowing in form docu features in Bombay Beach and LoveTrue into a...
Destroyer | Review
Sabotage Triage: Kusama and Kidman Break the Bank in Riveting Revenge Thriller
Robert Burns’ eternal line “The best laid schemes o’ Mice an’ Men/Gang aft...
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...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #26. Alistair Banks Griffin’s The Wolf Hour
The Wolf Hour
The interminable wait for Alistair Banks Griffin's second feature film is officially over. The Borderline Films' backed Two Gates of Sleep debuted...
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...
Pitch Black: Ehle, Harrison Jr. & Emory Cohen Join “The Wolf Hour”
Production on Alistair Banks Griffin's sophomore film began this week, and the supporting cast in the sweltering The Wolf Hour have been identified. Deadline reports...
2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Reed Morano’s I Think We’re Alone Now
Now that Reed Morano won the Emmy for best director in a drama series for The Handmaid's Tale (read her remarkable process in winning...
Hungry like the Wolf: Naomi Watts Toplines Alistair Banks Griffin’s Psychological Thriller
Alistair Banks Griffin is currently in pre-production and finally gearing up for his long-awaited sophomore feature with Naomi Watts confirmed as the lead in...
