Sentences with phrase «kat candler»

Wiggins made his feature - film debut with his notable performance in Kat Candler's Hellion, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2014.

Hellion colors inside the lines of its family - drama outline so neatly, it risks becoming rote — which isn't helped by its screamingly obvious Chekhov's - gun reveal — but writer - director Kat Candler creates a nice little world to move the pieces around in, one where an amateur motocross tournament represents Jacob's best bet for saving his family.

This is a tough movie, based on a short film of the same title that writer / director Kat Candler made in 2012 (which I haven't seen).

Hellion (Director & Screenwriter: Kat Candler)-- When motocross and heavy metal obsessed, 13 - year - old Jacob's delinquent behavior forces CPS to place his little brother Wes with his aunt, Jacob and his emotionally absent father must finally take responsibility for their actions and each other in order to bring Wes home.

Telling its story without demons or monsters, except those that arise from within, Kat Candler's absorbing drama Hellion exerts a quiet, compelling power.

Austin - based filmmaker Kat Candler's got a sweet spot for kids.

(2014) dir Kat Candler w / Aaron Paul, Josh Wiggins, Juliette Lewis [94 min; DCP] A portrait of a family on the brink of dissolution set against the haunting backdrop of the refineries of Southeast Texas.

Kat Candler, who has been a producing director on the show, has been upped to executive producer and will work closely with DuVernay in her new role.

The short psychological thriller was directed and written by Kat Candler, and is the result of a consumer contest helmed by Howard

Hutcherson currently has his hands full with three completed movies, one announced film («Journey 3»), his own production company — where he plans to try his luck with directing — and Thursday's premiere of «The Rusted,» directed by Kat Candler and co-starring «Hunger Games» alum Jena Malone.

Kat Candler will write and direct the film for Canon's consumer contest «Project Imagination: The Trailer»

For anybody with young children writer / director Kat Candler's Retribution (a.k.a. Hellion) is a film that touches on -LSB-...]

Filed Under: Chris Ward, Movies, Reviews Tagged With: Aaron Paul, Josh Wiggins, Juliette Lewis, Kat Candler, Retribution

Teenage rebellion in the sundrenched plains of Texas is the subject of Kat Candler's Hellion (2014), an ultimately unremarkable drama starring Breaking Bad's Aaron Paul, with a breakout performance by 14 - year - old Josh Wiggins.

She'll be joined by director Kat Candler and SAG - AFTRA Foundation National Director of Actors Programs Rochelle Rose.

Boasting grimy imagery, a primal, tightly - written script, and a breakout performance by a promising young newcomer, Kat Candler's Hellion — an expansion...

«Hellion» — Directed and written by Kat Candler.

Hoping to complete the hat trick begun by Benh Zeitlin's «Beasts of the Southern Wild,» the recipient of two SFFS / KRF (Kenneth Rainin Foundation) postproduction grants that captured the U.S. dramatic Grand Jury Prize in 2012, and «Fruitvale Station,» writer - director Kat Candler's «Hellion» will vie for the Grand Jury Prize in the U.S. narrative competition.

Starring Aaron Paul, Juliette Lewis and Josh Wiggins, Directed by Kat Candler.

Writer - director Kat Candler places a group of people in a reasonably interesting situation, but then spends more than an hour illustrating and reiterating the situation, instead of advancing it.

Director Kat Candler is from Georgia but is now based in Austin.

Jesse Pinkman fans should be pleased, as Paul graduates from playing a rebellious surrogate son to a frustrated, flawed father in writer - director Kat Candler's third feature.

In the grim, Southeast Texas - set «Hellion,» writer - director Kat Candler offers no relief for the unhappy father and son whose bad behavior sends them falling into ever deeper despair.

Writer - director Kat Candler's focus is on the ill - fated choices of angrily rebellious, motocross - obsessed 13 - year - old Jacob (newcomer Josh Wiggins) and his withdrawn, widowed father, Hollis (Aaron Paul), whose already tense relationship grows worse when custody of Jacob's younger brother, Wes, is given to Hollis» sister - in - law (Juliette Lewis).

Despair is not quiet for a broken father (Aaron Paul) and his troublemaker sons in Kat Candler's brisk, transfixing drama, which takes place in blue - collar southeast Texas.

Not exact matches

Slash Film claims «Infinitely Polar Bear» marks Mark Ruffalo's best performance yet and Variety praises Josh Wiggins» feature debut, writing, «More sensitive than sensational, [Kat] Candler's debut doesn't add much in the way of insight to the juvenile delinquency genre, but boasts a stunning breakthrough performance from newcomer Josh Wiggins as the troublemaker in question.»