Directed by Benjamín Ávila
Produced by Luis Puenzo
Written by Ávila & Marcello Müller
Released by Film Movement
Spanish with English subtitles.
Argentina/Spain/Brazil. 110 min. Not rated
With Teo Gutiérrez Moreno, Natalia Oreiro, César Troncoso, Ernesto Alterio & Cristina Banegas
In his debut feature film, director Benjamín Ávila draws on his own childhood to create a compelling coming of age story, set in […]
Directed by J. A. Bayona
Produced by Belén Atienza, Álvaro Augustin, Enrique López-Lavigne & Ghislain Barrois
Written by Sergio G. Sánchez
Released by Summit Entertainment
Spain. 114 min. Rated PG-13
With Naomi Watts, Ewan McGregor & Tom Holland
The Impossible is promoted as a true story of one family’s harrowing experience during the Indian Ocean tsunami that occurred on Boxing Day […]
Written & Directed by Victoria Mahoney
Produced by Ms. Mahoney, Billy Mulligan & Ged Dickersin
Released by MPI Pictures
USA. 96 min. Not rated
With Zoë Kravitz, Jason Clarke, Antonique Smith, Tariq Trotter, Tim Blake Nelson, Gabourey Sidibe & Yolonda Ross
Zoë Kravitz gives a powerful performance as Sweetness O’Hara in this coming-of-age indie. Actress-turned-first-time-director Victoria Mahoney tells her story […]
Directed by Andrew Neel
Produced by Tom Davis, Luke Meyer, Ethan Palmer & Andrew Corkin
Written by Neel & Mike Roberts
Released by GoDigital/SeeThink Films
USA. 84 min. Not rated
With Louisa Krause, Libby Woodbridge, Roderick Hill & Will Brill
The outlook on today’s Internet obsessed youth culture is bleak, even terrifying at times, in King Kelly, shot entirely on camera-phones. […]
Written & Directed by Patrick Wang
Produced by Andrew van den Houten, Robert Tonino & Wang
Released by In the Family LLC
USA. 169 min. Not rated
With Trevor St. John, Patrick Wang, Sebastian Brodziak, Brian Murray, Park Overall, Peter Hermann, Susan Kellermann, Elaine Bromka & Kelly McAndrew
At close to three hours long, In the Family isn’t exactly effortless […]
Written & Directed by Michael Walker
Produced by Dolly Hall
Released by IFC Films
USA. 92 min. Not rated
With Parker Posey, Eric Mabius, Annie Parisse, Josh Pais, Edward Herrmann & Cheyenne Jackson
Today’s economy is bound to have its effects on contemporary films. In writer/director Michael Walker’s Price Check, Pete Cozy (Eric Mabius) faces the hard decision of whether […]
Edited, Written & Directed by Jean-Marc Vallée
Produced by Pierre Even & Marie-Claude Poulin
Released by Adopt Films
French with English subtitles
Canada/France. 120 min. Not rated
With Vanessa Paradis, Kevin Parent, Hélène Florent, Évelyne Brochu, Marin Gerrier & Alice Dubois
Directed and written by Canadian filmmaker Jean-Marc Vallée (whose last film was the enchanting period piece The Young Victoria), Café […]
Directed by Ry Russo-Young
Produced by Jonathan Schwartz, Andrea Sperling & Alicia Van Couvering
Written by Lena Dunham &Russo-Young;
Released by Magnolia Pictures.
USA. 82 min. Rated R
With John Krasinski, Olivia Thirlby, Rosemarie DeWitt, India Ennenga, Dylan McDermott, Rhys Wakefield & Justin Kirk
It seems that It girl Lena Dunham can do no wrong. Her HBO series Girls was recently […]
The phrase, “That’s what she said,” has taken on a life of its own in the wake of its appearance on The Office. It turns out it has been around a lot longer than that TV show (according to my quick Internet research). In That’s What She Said, the punch line is utilized as an […]
