Written, Produced, and Directed by Alex R. Johnson
Produced by Johnson, Paul Biedrzycki, Pat Cassidy, Charles Mulford
Released by Traverse Media
USA. 93 min. Not rated
With Beth Broderick, James Landry Hébert, Skyy Moore, Jason Douglas, and Ashley Rai Spillers
“I don’t live in a world of maybe, I live in Texas.”
This is just one of the quotable lines in […]
Written and Directed by Pablo Fendrik
Released by Participant Media
Spanish with English subtitles
Argentina/Mexico/Brazil/France/USA. 100 min. Not rated
With Gael Garcia Bernal, Alice Braga, and Claudio Tolcachir
In the beginning, an intertitle explains that residents of the northern Argentine rainforest beseech river spirits to aid them when they feel threaten. Thus, early on, Gael García Bernal rises out of […]
Written and Directed by John Maclean
Produced by Rachel Gardner, Iain Canning, Emile Sherman, and Conor McCaughan
Released by A24
UK/New Zealand. 91 min. Rated R
With Kodi Smit-McPhee, Michael Fassbender, Ben Mendelsohn, Caren Pistorius, and Rory McCann
The feature debut of former Beta Band member John MacLean is an arty little Western that has some pretty remarkable things going […]
Directed by Toa Fraser
Produced by Matthew Metcalfe and Glenn Standring.
Written by Glenn Standring
Released by Magnet Releasing
Maori with English subtitles
New Zealand. 107 min Rated R
With James Rolleston, Lawrence Makoare, and Te Kohe Tuhaka
In terms of plot and emotional development, this brutal coming-of-age film is essentially as clichéd as any B movie or karate flick. However, it […]
The Tribeca Film Festival is back, offering an absurd amount of options for moviegoers to choose from. There’s a documentary about the fastball; a drama with Richard Gere as a creepy, rich older man worming his way into the lives of a young couple (Franny); and a Danish mood piece about teen suicide (Bridgend). This […]
Directed by Kornel Mundruczo
Produced by Viktoria Petranyi
Written by Kata Weber, Mundruczo, and Petranyi
Released by Magnolia Pictures
Hungarian with English subtitles
Hungary/Germnay/Sweden. 119 min. Rated R
With Zsofia Psotta, Luke and Bodie, Sandor Zsoter, Szabolcs Thuroczy, Lili Monori, Laszlo Galffi, Lili Horvath, and Kornel Mundruczo
Points should always be given for a unique story or a familiar story told in […]
Directed by Andy Grieve
Released by Cinema Libre Studio
USA. 83 min. Not rated
As the guitarist in the Police, perhaps the biggest band of the early ’80’s, Andy Summers was one of the most influential guitarists of the day. He painted with a larger sonic pallet than most rock musicians and generally used his instrument for […]
Edited, Written, and Directed by Joel Potrykus
Produced by Michael Saunders and Ashley Young
Released by Oscilloscope Laboratories
USA. 98 min. Not rated
With Joshua Burge, Joel Potrykus, Teri Ann Nelson, Katie Call, Scott Baisden, Joe Anderson, Rico Bruce Wade, Crystal Hilliard, and Michael Cunningham
In the ’70’s, a drifter-grifter anti-hero had a sort of grimy cool, a counterculture awesomeness […]
Directed by David Zellner
Produced by Nathan Zellner, Cameron Lamb, Chris Ohlson, Andrew Banks, and Jim Burke
Written by David Zellner and Nathan Zellner
Released by Amplify
English and Japanese, with English subtitles
USA. 105 min. Not rated
With Rinko Kikuchi, Nobuyuki Katsube, Kanako Higashi, Kyokaku Ichi, Ayaka Ohnishi, Mayuko Kawakita and David Zellner
A young Japanese woman becomes obsessed by […]
