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So far Dionne King has created 35 blog entries.

All Is Bright

Directed By Phil Morrison
Produced by Touchy Feely Films, GreeneStreet Films & Sidney Kimmel Entertainment
Written By Melissa James Gibson
Released by Anchor Bay Films
USA. 107 min, Rated R
With Paul Giamatti, Paul Rudd, Sally Hawkins, Amy Landecker & Tatyana Richaudf
All Is Bright, director Phil Morrison’s second feature, is a long awaited follow up to his stunning debut, Junebug, […]

By |October 3rd, 2013|Comedy, Crime, Indie|0 Comments

Interior. Leather Bar

Directed by James Franco & Travis Mathews
Produced by James Franco, Vince Jolivette, Travis Mathews, Iris Torres & Keith Wilson.
Written by Mathews
USA.  60 min. Not rated
With Val Lauren, James Franco, Travis Mathews, Christian Patrick, Brenden Gregory, Brad Roberge, Colin Chavez, A.J. Goodrich, Michael Lannan
Filmmakers James Franco and Travis Mathews collaborate to reimagine the 40 minutes of explicit […]

By |September 21st, 2013|Documentary, Film History, GLBT|0 Comments

Paradise: Faith

Directed by Ulrich SeidlProduced by Ulrich Seidl Film Produktion
Written by Veronika Franz & Ulrich Seidl
Released by Strand Releasing
German & Arabic with English subtitles
Austria/France,/Germany, 113 min.  Not rated
With Maria Hofstätten & Nabil Saleh
Ulrich Seidl’s “Paradise Trilogy” was originally conceived as a single film of interwoven stories following three female family members on a quest for […]

By |August 23rd, 2013|DVD/Streaming/On Demand, Festivals, Foreign, Top Picks|0 Comments

Wasteland

Written & Directed by Rowan Athale
Produced by Ed Barratt, Mark Foligno, Gareth Pritchard
Released by Oscilloscope Laboratories
UK. 106 min. Not rated
With Luke Treadaway, Timothy Spall, Matthew Lewis, Iwan Rheon, Vanessa Kirby, Neil Maskell & Gerard Kearns
British director Rowan Athale’s feature debut opens in the gloomy confines of a police station, where battered and bleeding Harvey Miller (Luke […]

By |July 28th, 2013|British Kitchen Sink, Crime, U. K.|0 Comments

Big Star

Directed by Drew DeNicola
Co-directed by Olivia Mori
Produced by Mori & Danielle McCarthy
Released by Magnolia Pictures
USA. 113 min. Rated PG-13
Director Drew DeNicola and Olivia Mori’s documentary rediscovers the Memphis band whose three albums all feature in Rolling Stone’s top 500, even though commercial success eluded them. It’s a story of frustrated ambition, record company mismanagement, industry transformation, […]

By |July 5th, 2013|Music, Pop Culture, Top Picks|0 Comments

The Look of Love

Directed by Michael Winterbottom
Produced by Melissa Parmenter
Written by Matt Greenhalgh
Released by IFC Films
UK/USA. 107 min.  Not rated (definitely would be rated R)
With Steve Coogan, Imogen Poots, Anna Friel, Tamsin Egerton & Chris Addison
After an eclectic career that covers art house, neo-noir, docudrama, and comedy, prolific director Michael Winterbottom brings us a biopic of Paul Raymond, […]

By |July 5th, 2013|Biopic, U. K.|0 Comments

Berberian Sound Studio

Written & Directed by Peter Strickland
Produced by Keith Griffiths, Mary Burke
Released by IFC Films
UK.  92 min. Not rated
With Toby Jones, Cosimo Fusco, Antonio Mancino & Tonia Sotiropoulou
Peter Strickland’s second feature is an inventive homage to the art of analogue sound and the power of the medium. Sometime in the 1970s, sound engineer Gilderoy (Toby Jones), […]

By |June 13th, 2013|Film History, Psychological thriller, U. K.|0 Comments

Sightseers

Directed by Ben Wheatley
Produced by Nira Park, Claire Jones & Andy Starke
Written by Alice Lowe & Steve Oram
Released by IFC Films
UK. 88 min. Not rated
With Alice Lowe, Steve Oram & Eileen Davies
After a career directing TV, Ben Wheatley made his first feature Down Terrace (2009), an understated comedy about a criminal clan, and followed it up […]

By |May 10th, 2013|Comedy, DVD/Streaming/On Demand, Top Picks, U. K.|0 Comments

Trance

Directed by Danny Boyle
Produced by Christian Colson;
Written by Joe Ahearne & John Hodge
Released by Fox Searchlight Pictures
UK. 101 min. Rated R
With James McAvoy, Vincent Cassel, Rosario Dawson, Danny Sapani, Matt Cross & Wahab Sheikh
Since he broke through with the black comedy Shallow Grave (1994) and with his follow up Trainspotting (1996), eclectic director Danny Boyle […]

By |April 28th, 2013|British, Crime, Psychological thriller|0 Comments