With HUNGRY, James Nunn delivers a clever, atmospheric, highly entertaining survival thriller that understands exactly how to manipulate audience assumptions while delivering plenty of swamp-soaked mayhem along the way.
By grounding its action in atmosphere, sonic immersion, emotional withholding, spatial precision, and deeply sustained suspense, SEVEN SNIPERS emerges as one of the year’s most gripping action thrillers — a film that understands tension is not something you simply create. It is something you carefully control.
THE BREADWINNER is one of the year’s most genuinely funny crowd-pleasers — the kind of laugh-until-you’re-crying comedy that understands the best humor comes from recognizable truth pushed to delightfully absurd extremes.
For CARY STACY, the true joy of episodic storytelling isn’t simply the individual moments. It’s the opportunity to develop a long-form sonic identity across an entire season.
Sun, Sweat, and Sunshine Noir: Mark Schwartzbard Finds the Visual Pulse of THE LOWDOWN.
“For me, it was always characters first,” she said. “As long as I stayed true to the drama of the story, then the rest became the stylistic choices — how to create tension, how to create suspense, how to maintain the element of surprise.”
On June 5th, IFC brings us Jonathan Zuck’s shark-tastic CHUM! Just watch this trailer! There is no such thing as too much blood or too many sharks!
Is it August 21st yet? I am beyond enchanted by this trailer for THE MAGIC FARAWAY TREE! Fantastical! Spellbinding! Kaleidoscopic! Magical!
Check out the teaser trailer for WILDWOOD, the new stop-motion delight from Laika!
As much as I always love the TCM Classic Film Festival Opening Night Red Carpet, the presentations in Club TCM in the Blossom Room (the site of the first Academy Awards) at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel are always a favorite of mine, and this year was no exception.
Disney, Pixar, and cute woodland animals? Say no more! Count me in for HOPPERS! Check out the trailer and first images for this animated delight.
Parting is such sweet sorrow. Get ready for one last time with the Crawleys in DOWNTON ABBEY: THE GRAND FINALE.
