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 […]
Directed by James Franco
Produced by Miles Levy, Jolivette, and Caroline Aragon
Written by Franco and Vince Jolivette, based on the novel by Cormac McCarthy
Released by Well Go USA Entertainment
USA. 104 min. Rated R
With Scott Haze, Tim Blake Nelson, Jim Parrack and James Franco
James Franco is a talented actor who more than dabbles in, well, everything. The […]
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 […]
