Director: Rebeca Lenkiewicz Writer: Deborah LevyStars: Emma Mackey, Vicky Krieps, Fiona Shaw
Synopsis: With a strange illness, a mother and her daughter embark on a journey to the Spanish coast to find a...
The “actor’s showcase” – much like the “oh, the places you’ll go” dramatic framework that I wrote about in this series’ first volume – is nothing new to the Sundance Film Festival,...
Director: Eva VictorWriter: Eva VictorStars: Eva Victor, Naomi Ackie, Louis Cancelmi
Synopsis: Something bad happened to Agnes. But life goes on - for everyone around her, at least.
Sorry, Baby is told in four chapters...
After Sundance comes our second big film festival of the year, the Berlin International Film Festival, aka Berlinale. Jury head Todd Haynes (May December) and his fellow judges will be watching an...
At this year’s Sundance Film Festival, one could count at least 25 films that involved characters navigating unfamiliar environments, from two British teenager’s misguided trip to Syria in search of independence (Brides)...
The list has been finalized, and the Oscar nominees are set in stone.
For four of the five nominees, this is the first time they have ever been able to call themselves an...
To snub something or someone is an active choice. If the nearly 10,000 voting members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences all got together in a single place, they...
In many ways, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the voting body for the Oscars, has emblazoned on its crest, "separate the art from the artist." Over its long history,...
