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Riley Keough & Audiences Have Waited Long Enough For ‘Zola’ To Hit Theaters [Interview]

June 28, 2021 10:32 am

Awards, Awards Campaign, Interviews, News

Riley Keough has been appearing in films for a decade, and her resume is already incredibly accomplished for someone barely over the age of 30. In fact, with "The Runaways," "Magic Mike," "Mad Max: Fury Road,"...

Sienna Miller Was Filled With Grief After Reading ‘Wander Darkly’ Script [Interview]

Gregory Ellwood

December 8, 2020 12:57 pm

Awards, Awards Campaign, Interviews, News

To put it mildly, Sienna Miller is doing the work. Despite roles in major studio flicks such as "American Sniper" or "21 Bridges," the British actress continues to make time for more challenging indie fare suc...

Emily Mortimer Gets Lost In The Horror Of ‘Relic’ [Interview]

Gregory Ellwood

July 9, 2020 11:15 am

Awards Campaign, Festivals, Interviews, News

The Sundance Film Festival can be a strange beast. Having caught Natalie Erika James' directorial debut "Relic" before the festival began, I assumed it would prompt a ton of interest from mini-majors and strea...

Elisabeth Moss On The “Role Of A Lifetime” In ‘Shirley’ [Interview]

Gregory Ellwood

June 3, 2020 11:00 am

Awards, Awards Campaign, Features, Interviews, News

Focusing on anything besides what's going on in America's streets is difficult at the moment. In another reality the entertainment industry is debating what can only be described as questionable standards for ...

‘Omniboat: A Fast Boat Fantasia’ Is A Miami Anthology That Can’t Avoid Being Shipwrecked [Sundance Review]

Rafael Motamayor

February 5, 2020 2:54 pm

Festivals, News, Reviews

Miami is described as “the only city where you can tell a lie at breakfast and it’ll be true by nightfall” during a weird but compelling speech by an ambitious real estate developer in “Omniboat: A Fast Boat F...

Netflix’s Submarine-Murder Doc ‘Into The Deep’ Is Your Next True-Crime Fixation [Sundance Review]

Jessica Kiang

February 5, 2020 12:22 pm

Festivals, News, Reviews

Perhaps it's a little psychopathic to talk about yourself in a review of a film about a psychopath. But here goes anyway: In June of 2017, at a film festival in Cluj, Romania, I watched and reviewed a small, s...

‘Sylvie’s Love’: Tessa Thompson In A Stylish ’50s Melodrama [Sundance Review]

Gregory Ellwood

February 4, 2020 4:55 pm

Awards Campaign, News, Reviews

There is a movie star moment that sticks out in Eugene Ashe’s “Sylvie’s Love.” The title character, portrayed by Tessa Thompson, slowly glides across her unrealistically large Manhattan office and sits down in...

‘The Last Shift’ With Richard Jenkins: A Dramedy With Its Heart In Slightly The Wrong Place [Sundance Review]

Jessica Kiang

February 4, 2020 10:35 am

Festivals, News, Reviews

"Maybe it's time to let go," sighs Stanley (Richard Jenkins), with typical last-to-the-party obliviousness. After 38 years working his way up to $13 per hour flipping burgers and cleaning grease traps in the s...

‘The Mole Agent’ Is A Perfect Movie That Will Make You Laugh and Break Your Heart [Sundance Review]

Jonathan Christian

February 3, 2020 10:01 am

Festivals, News, Reviews

No one grows up looking forward to old age. As a child, if you were fortunate enough to grow up alongside adoring grandparents, there exists a naïve notion that elderly people were just born like that. For mos...

‘Blast Beat’: Sibling Rivalries & An Interrogation Of The American Dream [Sundance Review]

Rafael Motamayor

February 2, 2020 1:30 pm

Festivals, News

In 2020, arguably, no concept is more ripe for scrutiny and interrogation than the quickly eroding and antiquated, notion, or illusion, of the American dream. These days, films focused on the plight of immigra...

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