Directed by Zeke Hawkins and Simon Hawkins
Produced by Justin X. Duprie and Brian Udovich
Written by Dutch Southern
Released by Starz Digital
USA. 91 min. Not rated
With Jeremy Allen White, Logan Huffman, Mackenzie Davis, Mark Pellegrino, William Devane, and Jon Gries
Bad Turn Worse begins with an act of great hubris when a character quotes the great noir writer […]
Edited, Written, and Directed and edited by Marshall Curry
Produced by Curry, Mr. Matthew VanDyke and Elizabeth Martin
Released by the Orchard
USA. 82 min. Not rated
Most of us have moments when we are not comfortable in our own skin and not sure of who we are. Most of us might switch jobs or significant others, maybe move […]
Directed by Tristam Shapeero
Produced by Tom Rice and Ben Nearn
Written by Michael Brown
Released by eOne Entertainment
USA. 87 min. Rated PG-13
With Joel McHale, Lauren Graham, Clark Duke, Oliver Platt, Wendi McLendon-Covey, Tim Heidecker, Candice Bergen and Robin Williams
One has hope that when a Christmas movie comes out, it can be added to the admittedly small canon […]
Directed by Alexandre Aja
Produced by Cathy Schulman, Riza Aziz, Joey McFarland, and Aja
Written by Keith Bunin, based on the novel by Joe Hill
Released by Radius/TWC
USA/Canada. 120 min. Rated R
With Daniel Radcliffe, Juno Temple, Max Minghella, Joe Anderson, Kelli Garner, Heather Graham, David Morse, Kathleen Quinlan, and James Remar
Horns, directed by indie horror sensation Alexandre Aja, […]
Directed by Cutter Hodierne
Somali, with English subtitles
Released by Vice Films
USA/Kenya/Somalia. 110 min. Rated R
Fishing Without Nets is a beautifully shot, intelligent, and engaging, if somewhat clichéd and obvious, story about a group of Somali pirates who capture a cargo ship. It’s kind of a reverse mirror of Captain Phillips. Or Captain Phillips is a reverse […]
Directed by Peter Askin
Written by Stephen King, adapted from his short story “A Good Marriage” from the collection Full Dark, No Stars
Released by Screen Media FIlms
USA. 103 min. Not rated
With Joan Allen, Anthony LaPaglia, Kristen Connolly, and Stephen Lang
If you were to pick up a book by Stephen King, chances are you will be entertained, […]
Directed by Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard
Written by Mr. Forsyth, Pollard and Nick Cave
Produced by James Wilson and Dan Bowen
Released by Drafthouse Films
UK. 97 min. Not rated
Nick Cave must say the word transformation about a half a dozen times in the quash-documentary 20,000 Days on Earth. It’s what he feels art does in life, what […]
Written and Directed by Nicholas McCarthy
Produced by Sonny Mallhi
Released by IFC Midnight/Video on Demand
USA. 92 min. Not rated
With Catalina Sandino Moreno, Naya Rivera, Ashley Rickards, and Colin Egglesfield
There are horror movies that wink and nudge at you, knowing you understand the tropes and the paces. They allow you to keep an ironic distance from the […]
Directed by Martin Lund
Released by Big World Pictures
Norwegian, with English subtitles
Norway. 75 min. Not rated
If Alexander Payne ever decided to make a Judd Apatow film, it would look somewhat like The Almost Man. Henrik, played by Henrik Rafaelson, is a 35-year-old man-child (with an uncanny resemblance to Jason Segel) who starts acting out passive-aggressively, sometimes […]
