by John Wildman | Jan 23, 2016 | Uncategorized
So, we’re back at Sundance Film Festival, and this year, rather than give a detailed play-by-play of everything that happens while I’m here, I think I’ll throw in some greatest hits and funny moments in these reports and focus more on the reviews. There are going to...
by John Wildman | Dec 1, 2015 | Film Festival News, Uncategorized
South Korea’s foreign-language Oscar entry, Lee Joon-Ik’s film THE THRONE was the Opening Night Gala selection for the 35th Annual Hawaii International Film Festival, screening on Thursday, November 12. The story of an infamous moment during the Joseon Dynasty when...
by John Wildman | Sep 22, 2015 | Uncategorized
For the first time since I moved to New York to work for Lincoln Center five or six years ago, I find myself going back to the Toronto International Film Festival. I hadn’t been there in all that time because timing made it impossible with my duties doing PR...
by Matt Kaszanek | Sep 4, 2015 | Uncategorized
Labor Day Weekend is upon us, so time for end-of-the-summer BBQs, college football, and insufferable tweets detailing what film exec or celeb was on somebody’s flight, as “Off to Telluride as I am a greater cinephile, richer, and infinitely more influential than you –...
by Matt Kaszanek | Aug 23, 2015 | Uncategorized
If October, November, and December are when the studios release their best films of the year, then August certainly is the month when they trot out their worst. The ones they hope you won’t notice. Lionsgate released three this weekend alone! In any other month, you...
by Matt Kaszanek | Jul 18, 2015 | Uncategorized
Amy Schumer’s TRAINWRECK is both “brutally funny” and “raucously funny,” according to the New York and Los Angeles Times, respectively. The new Woody Allen appears to be a re-hash of some of his older, better films. And Marvel’s ANT-MAN is “a passable piece of drone...
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