Tag: Mark Duplass
Interview: Mel Eslyn – Biosphere
The symbiotic relationship between Mel Eslyn and Mark Duplass is akin to the dynamic between Mario and Luigi – each vital to the other's...
2022 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Mel Eslyn’s Biosphere
A veteran film producer on the American indie scene for more than a decade now (plus a generous helping on television series in the...
Top 50 Most Anticipated American Independent Films of 2019: #43. Jay Roach’s Fair and Balanced
Fair and Balanced
In a project that will carry a heavier price tag than Trumbo (read review), while we normally don't associate him with American indie,...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #88. Untitled Alex Lehmann Duplass Brothers/Ray Romano Comedy
Part of the larger Duplass Bros. family that keeps growing, Alex Lehmann saw his directorial debut Blue Jay get launched at TIFF and shortly...
2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Miguel Arteta’s Duck Butter
Mostly working within the comedy film curriculum, two decades, and now eight feature films in, an habitual of the fest since presenting Star Maps...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Patrick Brice’s Creep 2
We had an inkling that Patrick Brice would shore up at Sundance back in 2015, but we hadn't the faintest idea that The Overnight would be the huge...
Creep | Review
People Are Strange: Brice’s Debut Retools Found Footage for Ordinary Madness
Available on demand at the same time as his Sundance darling sophomore feature The...
The Lazarus Effect | Review
Death Becomes Her: Gelb’s B-Grade Horror Haunted By Its Own Ideas
With its absurd title, which recalls an era of enjoyable B-grade Sci-Fi/horror films from...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Patrick Brice’s The Overnight
2014 saw Patrick Brice officially plant his feet with Craigslist's ad from hell horror pic Creep (originally titled Peachfuzz) being picked up (by RADiUS)...
The One I Love | Review
Love the One You’re With: McDowell’s Exceptional Debut is Remarkable Lo-fi Sci-fi
Almost impossible to discuss without tarnishing the highly nuanced and inventive twists it...
Tracking Shot: Van Sant, Doremus, Guadagnino & Reed Morano Shooting This August
“Tracking Shot” is a monthly featurette here on IONCINEMA.com that looks at a dozen or so projects that are moments away from lensing (or...
Ross Partridge Out on a “Lamb”; Weixler & Oona Laurence Join the Wyoming Wilderness
The Duplass bros. tentacles are among the close-knit on another project to keep tabs on in the next calendar year. Future star so bright...
Tammy | Review
Tammy Girl: Falcone’s Debut a Tepid Turkey
Rex Reed might have been better served to save his wayward disparagements about the cinematic talents of Melissa...
Newbies, Habituals & James Ransone Are All Ripe for Sean Baker’s “Tangerine”
Moving from unlikely friendships in Starlet, to perhaps the likeliest of neighbors, Sean Baker appears to have found a cosmos that is inspiring to...
Schilling, Adam Scott, Schwartzman & Godreche Climb into Bed for Patrick Brice’s “The Overnight”
Veteran indie film world thesps Adam Scott and Jason Schwartzman, Orange Is the New Black's Taylor Schilling along with French actress from Potiche fame...
Safety Not Guaranteed… Radius-TWC Lands Patrick Brice’s “Creep” & Makes Two More Scary Movies
Sort of what Dimension Films represented back in the heyday of Miramax era, Tom Quinn and Jason Janego are proving that RADiUS-TWC is a...
2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Charlie McDowell’s The One I Love
With a famous pair of acting parents, we imagine that his on-set apprenticeship qualifies as film school. The multi-talented (jury will be out on...
Jordan M. Smith’s Top Ten Films of 2012: (Picks 5 to 1) Paul Thomas Anderson’s The Master is #1
5. Jeff, Who Lives At Home
Another film that took me a while to see, this is the Duplass brothers' going a little lighter this...
The Do-Deca-Pentathlon | Review
Men at Work: Duplass Bros. Deliver Painfully Funny Olympiads
Over the past seven years, the Duplass Brothers have made five feature-length films with each exploring...
