4 months ago

Silver Haze | Review
by admin|4 months ago|Ioncinema
Keeper of the Flame: Polak Reckons with Reconciliation vs. Retribution in Conventional Drama Dutch director Sacha Polak continues to explore the difficulties of acceptance and reclamation in her fourth feature, Silver Haze, another pseudo-sordid kitchen sink melodrama focused on wounded...
continue reading
Spaceman Review: Adam Sandler Finds an Alien Connection in Soulful Sci-Fi Odyssey
by admin|4 months ago|The Film Stage
The new film from Johan Renck, efficiently titled Spaceman, offers two central conceits. The first: that a vessel en route to a cloud of purple dust, somewhere in the region of Venus, might be visited by a benevolent alien with...
continue reading
Berlinale Review: The Devil’s Bath is an Ominous, Empathetic Psychological Thriller
by admin|4 months ago|The Film Stage
Early Modern times were messy: Europe was finding its footing in rationalism, seeking independence from the centuries-long spiritual yoke of Catholicism and Protestantism. Shedding the skin of the past seems, at least from our standpoint today, the best thing that...
continue reading
Berlinale Review: Through the Graves the Wind is Blowing is a Politically Conscious Tribute to the Yugoslavian Black Wave 
by admin|4 months ago|The Film Stage
How can you make a film about the fall of Yugoslavia? This is the question American documentarian Travis Wilkerson asks himself at the start of Through the Graves the Wind is Blowing, after acknowledging his own position as a foreigner...
continue reading
Problemista
by admin|4 months ago|Roger Ebert
Since his breakout sketches on “Saturday Night Live,” Julio Torres has established himself as a surrealistic comic. He graduated from the show to co-creating and starring in the quirky horror comedy series “Los Espookys” as the deadpan blue-haired diva Andrés...
continue reading
Japanese Horror Comes to the Film Forum
by admin|4 months ago|Roger Ebert
March arrives chilly and haunted at Film Forum in the shambling, wraithlike form of a two-week celebration of over 90 years of masterpieces of Japanese Horror. Exquisitely-curated and shepherded in collaboration with the Japanese Foundation, these screenings, many on 35mm...
continue reading
Apple TV+ Gets A Bit Too Silly With The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin
by admin|4 months ago|Roger Ebert
Call it the “Drunk History” effect—from Hulu’s “The Great” to Max’s “Our Flag Means Death,” television has been smack dab in the middle of an irreverent historical renaissance the last few years. Slap a frock or two on a few...
continue reading
Interview: Marie Amachoukeli – Àma Gloria
by admin|4 months ago|Ioncinema
Dialling into a unique relationship dynamic that isn’t portrayed in cinema, Marie Amachoukeli, who won the Camera d’Or award at the 2014 edition of the Cannes Film Festival for Party Girl (co-directed and written with Claire Burger and Samuel Theis)...
continue reading
The 2nd Annual CU International Film Festival to be Held on March 2nd
by admin|4 months ago|Roger Ebert
The CU International Film Festival (“CUIFF”) is hosting its second annual festival on Saturday, March 2nd, in the evening at the Spurlock Museum of World Cultures in Urbana, Illinois. The festival showcases short films from around the globe that it believes have...
continue reading
Lou Weisbach Hired by Hollywood Movie Corp. to Exclusively Represent Upcoming Film, The Jerry Greenberg Story
by admin|4 months ago|Roger Ebert
Hollywood Movie Corp. CEO Mikel Ravenscroft and Jerry Greenberg of Mirage Records announce that they have hired Lou Weisbach to exclusively represent the major global motion picture, "The Jerry Greenberg Story: Man Behind the Music." Jerry Greenberg is the American music...
continue reading