Directed by Michael R. Roskam
Written by Dennis Lehane, based on his short story “Animal Rescue”
Produced by Peter Chernin and Jenno Topping
Released by Fox Searchlight Pictures
USA. 106 min. Rated R.
With Tom Hardy, Noomi Rapace, James Gandolfini, Matthias Schoenaerts, John Ortiz, and Ann Dowd
Anyone interested in recent crime fiction is probably familiar with the work of Dennis […]
Written and Directed by Ari Folman, based on The Futurological Congress by Stanislaw Lem
Produced by Folman, Reinhard Brundig and Robin Wright.
Released by Drafthouse Films
Israel/Germany/Poland/Luxembourg /Belgium/France. 123 min. Not rated
With Robin Wright, Harvey Keitel, Danny Huston, Paul Giamatti, Kodi Smit-McPhee and Jon Hamm
Robin Wright is having a career revival. She became a household name as a […]
Directed by John Bruno, Andrew Wight, and Ray Quint
Produced by Wight and Brett Popplewell
Released by National Geographic Entertainment
USA. 90 min. Rated PG
People often grow up fantasizing about outer space and/or the Earth’s oceans, the two great canvasses available for boundless possibility and discovery. James Cameron is at the far end of the spectrum in both of […]
Directed by Steve James
Produced by Zak Piper, James and Garrett Basch
Released by Magnolia Pictures
USA. 118 min. Rated R
Perhaps the most shocking thing about the Roger Ebert documentary Life Itself is the revelation that Ebert became a full-time paid film critic at a major newspaper in the third largest city in the United States as a […]
Produced & Directed by Riley Morton
Released by First Run Features
USA. 86 min. Not rated
Evergreen: The Road to Legalization is an in-depth film documenting all of the difficulties and nuances activists faced on the road to passing I-502, a piece of legislation in Washington State legalizing small amounts of marijuana. It is a no frills, serious […]
Written & Directed by Andrew Rossi
Produced by Josh Braun & Rossi
Released by Samuel Goldwyn Films/Participant Media
USA. 90 min. Rated PG-13
There are few things more enjoyable than to critique the American higher education system, and Ivory Tower is one of the most slickly produced and entertaining cracks at it yet. Here, colleges are widely described as […]
Written by Slattery and Alex Metcalf, based on the novel by Pete Dexter
Produced by Sam Bisbee, Jackie Kelman Bisbee, Lance Acord, Slattery, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Emily Ziff
Released by IFC Films
USA. 88 min. Rated R
With Philip Seymour Hoffman, Richard Jenkins, Christina Hendricks, John Turturro, Caleb Landry Jones, Domenick Lombardozzi, Joyce Van Patten, and Glenn Fleshler
If […]
Written and Directed by Richard Shepard
Produced by Jeremy Thomas
Released by Fox Searchlight Pictures.
UK. 93 min. Rated R
With Jude Law, Richard E. Grant, Demian Bichir, Emilia Clarke and Kerry Condon
Not quite as smart as it needs to be, yet smarter than it may seem, Dom Hemingway is a timely film, and an unmistakable sign that Jude […]
Written, Produced and Directed by John Maloof and Charlie Siskel
Released by Sundance Selects
USA. 83 min. Not rated
If you put aside the deep knowledge Finding Vivian Maier imparts about an undeniably powerful contributor to photography, and the stark sense of the wildly eccentric character behind the images, you are left with one of the funniest, […]
