Tag: andreariseborough
Review: AMSTERDAM, A Disappointing Misfire By Any Other Name
Despite a cast overflowing with recognizable brand names, including three Oscar winners in Christian Bale, Rami Malek, and Robert De Niro, past or future Oscar nominees in Margot Robbie, Andrea Riseborough, and Anya Taylor-Joy (among several others), David O. Russell’s...
Review: THE ELECTRICAL LIFE OF LOUIS WAIN, The Man Who Loved Cat Painting
Benedict Cumberbatch, Claire Foy, and Andrea Riseborough star in a historical biography, directed by Will Sharpe.
Friday One Sheet: POSSESSOR
This disturbing key art for Brandon Cronenberg's latest film, Possessor, comes in 'industrial warning yellow.' It is a striking improvement from the orange-red teaser poster. Something about this shade of yellow, which is typically reserved for easy-viewing 'Sundance-hit' indie films,...
Sundance 2020 Review: POSSESSOR Confirms Brandon Cronenberg's Status As a Singular Talent
Andrea Riseborough stars in Brandon Cronenberg's horror picture, which will leave even the most jaded, cynical audiences shattered, shook, and devastated.
Opening in Theaters: THE GRUDGE, Once More, With Menace
Andrea Riseborough, Demián Bichir, John Cho, Betty Gilpin, Lin Shaye and Jacki Weaver star in Nicolas Pesce's new version of Shimizu Takashi's original horror thriller.
THE GRUDGE Trailer: Begrudge a Reboot At Your Peril
Before assuming that the new, new version of The Grudge is yet another rehash of the same old tropes, borrowed from the Japanese horror original and then smoothed over and mainstreamed for American audiences some years ago, allow me to...
Blood Window Pinamar 2019: Second Annual Genre Fest Invades The Small Town in Coastal Argentina
Our friends at Blood Window in Argentina are once again preparing to roll into the coastal town of Pinamar, a little south of Buenos Aires, for the sophomore run of The Fantasy and Horror Film Festival Blood Window Pinamar. ...
Phenomena 2018: New Genre Fest Debuts in São Paulo And Paraty, Brazil
We have some new friends in the City of Drizzle, São Paulo, Brazil. We were introduced to the fine folks from Cine Phenomena, a monthly film club in the city, and this wwek they are about to launch their brand...
Full Programme Announced For Celluloid Screams 2018
Seems we are a bit behind on announcing the lineup of one of key UK stops on the festival circuit during the Autumn months. Celluloid Screams in Sheffield announced their lineup earlier this month and they were kind enough to...
Interview: Panos Cosmatos on MANDY and His Mythical Realm of the Imaginary
In the final part of Panos Cosmatos' first film, Beyond the Black Rainbow, there is a sequence that presents a quintessential scenario of horror films: two long-haired friends listen to heavy metal music in the middle of nowhere, while they...
Review: MANDY, Evil Lurks in a Fever Dream Starring Nicolas Cage
Nicolas Cage and Andrea Riseborough star in Panos Cosmatos' feast of visual delights.
Neuchatel International Fantastic Film Festival Announces Full Lineup For 2018
Neuchatel International Fantastic Film Festival (NIFFF) today announced a full programme of genre treats ahead of their July 6th start date. In addition to the previously announced world-first focus on genre films of New Zealand and the festival's highlighting of...
Sundance 2018 Review: MANDY, a Revenge-filled Feast of Visual Delights
In describing Panos Cosmatos' Mandy, the first word that comes to mind is 'admiration.' The picture reflects the singular, unique, and uncompromising vision of its director. Producing an auteur-driven horror film is an admirable feat in a business that often...
Review: SHADOW DANCER, A Well-Acted, Classy Political Thriller
Shifting loyalties regarding family, cause and country are the basis for Shadow Dancer, a sensitive and affecting new political thriller from director James Marsh (Man on Wire, Red Riding: 1980). It boasts a great ensemble cast that includes Clive Owen,...
TTTT: Cruise at Earth's End: Watch it Spin Round to a Beautiful Oblivion
Hey, it's another TTTT column, where I, Jim Tudor, take you along on one of Tudor's Twitchin' Travel Tours! For this one, we leave the planet via bubbleship, only to return to to find it an abandoned post-apocalyptic wreck. That's...
W.E. Review
When they first coined the notion of auteur theory fifty or so years ago, no one, of course, had Madonna-as-filmmaker in mind. But, being that auteurism is to view the director at center of all things within a given...
Recent Posts
 (1)-thumb-80x80-93563.jpg)
