Motor City

‘Motor City’ Review: Potsy Ponciroli’s Dialogue-Lite Thriller Is A Dazzling Demonstration Of Genre-Movie Pyrotechnics – Venice Film Festival

Right from the first turn of the ignition, director Potsy Ponciroli lets us know that the things we might expect of an action film set in ’70s Detroit are exactly the things he intends to deliver. A stream of gas-guzzling sedans, a neon motel sign, a load of sawn-off shotguns (remember them?) and a big […]

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The Six Billion Dollar Man review – WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s rise, fall and limbo

Cannes film festivalFocusing on the rogue’s gallery of hypocrites and crooks surrounding him, Assange himself is in the background of a pretty definitive examinationJulian Assange sits at the centre of this gripping account of the WikiLeaks founder’s rise, fall and protracted seven-year limbo inside the Ecuadorian embassy. Eugene Jarecki’s documentary takes its title from the […]

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Michael Angelo Covino Kyle Marvin Adria Arjona and Dakota Johnson in SPLITSVILLE scaled

‘Splitsville’ Director Tears Up As Dakota Johnson Pic Gets Eight-Minute Ovation At Cannes Premiere

Michael Angelo Covino’s sophomore feature directing effort, Splitsville, was unveiled this evening as part of the Cannes Film Festival Premiere section. It was greeted with a eight-minute reception. The comedy, co-written by Covino and Kyle Martin, follows Ashley (Adria Arjona) who, after asking for a divorce, spurs the good-natured Carey (Kyle Marvin) to run to […]

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