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Will ‘Mass’ Put Ann Dowd On A Path To An Oscar Nomination? [Interview]

October 8, 2021 8:56 am

Awards, Awards Campaign, Interviews, News

Ann Dowd has been a working actor in film and television for over 35 years. She’s an Emmy winner for “The Handmaid’s Tale,” won Best Supporting Actress honor from the National Board of Review for 2012’s “Compl...

‘Mass’ Trailer: The Heartbreaking Aftermath Of Gun Violence Is Confronted In This Acclaimed Sundance Drama

Ned Booth

August 31, 2021 9:56 am

News, Trailers

Sundance International Film Festival allows for a wide variety of unique and personal films to be screened each year. Such allows for several emotional and difficult stories to be told throughout the festival....

Fall 2021 Movie Preview: 60+ Must-See Films

Nicholas Laskin and Rodrigo Perez

August 30, 2021 1:30 pm

Features, News

Trust us when we say we hope there’s a day when the words pandemic and COVID-19 are never written on the pages of this website again, specifically in any intros to any features. However, the reality is that th...

Fran Kranz Talks His Drama ‘Mass,’ Impossible Grief, And The Power Of Ann Dowd [Sundance Interview]

Isaac Feldberg

February 6, 2021 1:20 pm

Interviews, News

Fran Kranz’s “Mass” is likely one of the most emotionally pulverizing films ever made about America’s gun-violence epidemic – but across its 110-minute runtime, not a single shot is fired. READ MORE: ‘Mass’...

‘Mass’: An Impressively Depressing Four-Way Powerhouse, Until the Walls Close In [Sundance]

Jessica Kiang

January 30, 2021 8:28 pm

Festivals, News, Reviews

It's hard to say if the excoriating debut film written, produced, and directed by Fran Kranz, in being an extraordinarily depressing chamber piece dealing with the long-after fallout of a school shooting, is t...

25 Most Anticipated 2021 Sundance Film Festival Premieres

Gregory Ellwood

December 15, 2020 3:01 pm

Awards Campaign, Features, Festivals, News

The fact there are even 72 selections for the 2020 Sundance Film Festival is something of a miracle. The fall festivals had the benefit of movies that mostly shot before the pandemic hit in March. Outside of t...

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