Directed by Manuel Martin Cuenca
Produced by Fernando Bovaira, Simon de Santiago, Manuel Martin Cuenca, Alejandro Hernandez
Written by Cuenca, Alejandro Hernandez, based on a novel by Humberto Arenal
Released by Film Movement/RAM Releasing
Spain/Romania/Russia/France. 116 min. Not rated
With Antonio de la Torre, Olimpia Melinte, and Alfonsa Rosso
The Spanish film Cannibal is a character study about the most […]
Written and Directed by Martha Stephens and Aaron Katz
Produced by Mynette Louie, Sara Murphy and Christina Jennings
Released by Sony Pictures Classics
USA. 95 min. Rated R
With Paul Eenhoorn, Earl Lynn Nelson, Karrie Crouse and Elizabeth McKee
Land Ho!, a slight, harmless little film, has charm but ultimately disappoints. Mitch (Earl Lynn Nelson), a geriatric Kentucky surgeon—he’s 70 […]
Directed by Álex de la Iglesia
Written by Jorge Guerricaechevarría and de la Iglesia
Released by IFC Midnight
Spanish with English subtitles
Spain. 112 min. Not rated
With Hugo Silva, Mario Casas, Pepón Nieto, Carolina Bang, Terele Pávez, Jaime Ordóñez, Gabriel Ángel Delgado, Santiago Segura, Macarena Gómez, and Carmen Maura
It’s been a long, long while since a horror comedy had […]
Written and Directed by Alex van Warmerdam
Produced by Marc van Warmerdam
Released by Drafthouse Films
Dutch with English subtitles
Netherlands/Denmark. 113 min. Not rated
With Jan Bijvoet, Hadewych Minis, Jeroen Perceval, and Sara Hjort Ditlevsen
Borgman is a sleek, sly, stylish little horror film that is ultimately unsatisfying. It starts intriguingly as we watch three men, one a priest, tramp […]
Directed by Richard Ayoade
Produced by Robin C. Fox and Amina Dasmal
Written by Ayoade, Avi Korine, based on “The Double” by Fyodor Dostoevsky.
Released by Magnolia Pictures
UK. 93 min.
With Jesse Eisenberg, Mia Wasikowska, Wallace Shawn, Noah Taylor, Yasmin Paige, Cathy Moriarty, Phyllis Somerville, James Fox, Sally Hawkins, and Chris O’Dowd
Simon James (Jesse Eisenberg) is a non-person. He […]
Edited, Produced, and Directed by Tamar Halpern and Chris Quilty
Released by Tamaroland Pictures
USA. 88 min. Not rated
Halfway through Llyn Foulkes One Man Band, the title subject is at a gallery staring at one of his paintings. Actually it’s a photograph of a rock formation blown up to about 8 by 10 feet and which Foulkes […]
Directed by Emanuel Hoss-Desmarais
Written by Hoss-Desmarais and Marc Tulin
Released by Oscilloscope Laboratories
Canada. 86 min Not rated
With Thomas Haden Church, Marc Labreche, Anie Pascale and Vincent Hoss-Desmarais
There are some great movies where man takes on the wilderness and alternately himself. (Into the Wild and Rescue Dawn come to mind). Whitewash is not in this group. Blame […]
Directed by Zack Parker
Written by Kevin Donner and Parker
Released by IFC Midnight
USA. 122 min Rated R
With Alexia Rasmussen, Alexa Havins, Kristina Klebe, Joe Swanberg, and Erika Hoveland
For about 45 minutes, Proxy is a disturbing, intriguing original indie horror film focusing on the term “indie” (character, rather than plot, driven). Then a marked change in tone […]
Directed by Tom Berninger
Released by Abramorama Entertainment
USA. 74 min. Not rated
Matt Berninger, the lead singer of the indie rock band the National, is a very self-possessed individual. He is slim and handsome with steel blue gimlet eyes. When his band’s concerts begin, he strolls on stage with a glass of red wine in hand.
His brother, […]
