Tag: jblakeson

Review: I CARE A LOT, Come for Rosamund Pike's Performance, Stay for the Wicked Satire

The Trump Era may be officially over, but Trump’s legacy of greed, corruption, and malfeasance lives on in J Blakeson’s (Gunpowder, The Disappearance of Alice Creed) scabrous, scathing satire, I Care a Lot, a not particularly deep, if viciously funny,...

ALICE CREED review

To celebrate the local Alice Creed theater release (did I really see a DVD review a couple of days ago?), let me join my fellow ScreenAnarchistss and add another positive review ! Some young directors try to impress by throwing...

THE DISAPPEARANCE OF ALICE CREED on DVD and Blu-ray

What? The Disappearance of Alice Creed wasn't playing at your local cinema? Well, whinge no more, because J. Blakeson's excellent feature debut is coming to UK DVD and Blu-ray on the 4th October. A supremely tight three-hander, with uniformly great...

THE DISAPPEARANCE OF ALICE CREED Review

[Tomorrow is the strongest release day of the year and so we are taking the opportunity to pull our reviews of the key new release titles back up to the top of the stack. Yes, I'm aware parts of the...

Gemma Arterton Talks THE DISAPPEARANCE OF ALICE CREED

J Blakeson's twisty UK thriller The Disappearance of Alice Creed has been winning fans for itself around the globe on the festival circuit for the past year and this coming Friday general audiences in North America will finally get the chance to...

Fantasia 2010: THE DISAPPEARANCE OF ALICE CREED Review

[Another consensus pick around these parts, and you'll be hard pressed to find a tighter or leaner thriller chamber-piece.  It makes a stop on its festival circuit at Fantasia before it gets a full commercial release.  Here is James' review...

A Trio Of Exclusive Images From THE DISAPPEARANCE OF ALICE CREED

The anticipation is almost over.J Blakeson's tightly wrought thriller The Disappearance Of Alice Creed left a mighty big impression when it screened at the Toronto International Film Festival and with the North American release - on VOD and in select...

Watch The First Five Minutes Of J Blakeson's Fantastic Thriller THE DISAPPEARANCE OF ALICE CREED!

How confident are US distributors Anchor Bay in J Blakeson's UK thriller The Disappearance of Alice Creed? Confident enough that they're giving you the first five minutes more than a month before its August 6th release in theaters and on...

TRIBECA 2010: Another Take on THE DISAPPEARANCE OF ALICE CREED

[ Our thanks to Aaron Krasnov for the following review ]I have been reading the Alice Creed coverage on ScreenAnarchy and wanted to provide a quick counterpoint to the mostly positive looks the site has been giving the film. The...

TRIBECA 2010: Quick Takes: ALICE CREED! METROPIA! ONDINE! and PLEASE GIVE?!

Doing some capsule reviews here for the start of the week. Not because these films are less deserving of a full review than others, it is more for time constraints... and also all four flicks already have distribution in multiple...

U.S. trailer for 'The Disappearance of Alice Creed'

Hopefully our man in New York Ben Umstead will find time in his busy schedule to go see this Brit thriller playing at Tribeca. Todd saw it at TIFF and made an outrageous claim that The Disappearance of Alice Creed...

THE DISAPPEARANCE OF ALICE CREED Review

The Disappearance Of Alice Creed is a model of film-making efficiency, a low-budget kidnap thriller as lean as it is tense. The debut feature from director J Blakeson, Alice throws us headlong into the lives of ex-convicts Danny (Martin Compston)...

Gemma Aterton Begs For Her Life In This Clip From THE DISAPPEARANCE OF ALICE CREED

While posting the new UK trailer for J Blakeson's The Disappearance of Alice Creed our own Al Young commented on how I personally have a fondness for this tight little thriller. That's certainly one way of phrasing it. The way...

UK Trailer for J Blakeson's THE DISAPPEARANCE OF ALICE CREED

The UK promotion for J Blakeson's directorial debut The Disappearance of Alice Creed has already kick off with the launch of the official site, a new quad poster and a trailer.  Todd says hes quite fond of the indie thriller...

J Blakeson's THE DISAPPEARANCE OF ALICE CREED To Appear On US Screens In 2010

How fond am I of J Blakeson's tightly wound thriller The Disappearance of Alice Creed?  Fond enough that when the film screened at the Toronto International Film Festival I commented that Blakeson may very well be the next Danny Boyle. ...