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Writer-director Benh Zeitlin's long-awaited followup to 'Beasts of the Southern Wild' retells a children's classic in the modern day.

Proudly adhering to the photographic rule of thirds, this poster for Ben Zeitlin's take on the Peter Pan mythology was designed by Eclipse to, apparently, emphasize various strata of 'danger,' and the human energy sandwiched between the natural world. There...

Previously in this column, I took a comparing/contrasting look at three of this year's Best Picture Oscar nominees, Zero Dark Thirty, Django Unchained, and Lincoln. Now it's time to continue the process of asking whether or not the nine Best...

This was a great year in film for me, for two big reasons. One: great sci-films are making a comeback, ones that care about story, not just explosions. Two: the classical, cause-and-effect narrative, where the audience is led by the...

[Congratulations to Noah Aust and Dave Forman, who are our two winners.]One of the most acclaimed indies of the year, Beasts of the Southern Wild hits DVD and BluRay this coming Tuesday, December 4th and we want to give you...

BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD comes at you as something truly wild - wondrously fuzzy, but also matted and mangy. And not without teeth. It is a rough-hewn, jagged-edged full-on immersion into a culture and place so very "other"...

I first heard about the film Beasts of the Southern Wild from reading my Twitter feed. Wendel Pierce, Louisiana native and star of both The Wire and Treme, was extolling the virtues of a little film that was to play...

Beasts of the Southern Wild left a huge impression on me. I don't go out of my way to see films that dabble in magical realism. My own struggles with depression make me somewhat leery of the sort of manufactured...

Richly acclaimed since its world premiere at Sundance in January, Beasts of the Southern Wild opens tomorrow, June 27, in New York and Los Angeles. It's the story of a father and his daughter, living in a community known as...

Benh Zeitlin's Sundance Grand Jury Prize winning Beasts Of The Southern Wild hits screens on June 27th and ScreenAnarchy has an exclusive trio of new images to share from the film.Winner of the Sundance 2012 Grand Jury Prize as well...

While there's still plenty of festival to go it would appear that the early winner of Sundance 2012 - both in terms of critical and financial response - is Benh Zeitlin's Beasts Of The Southern Wild.A fantastical drama set on...