Directed by James Ponsoldt
produced by David Kanter, Matt DeRoss, James Dahl, Mark Manuel, and Ted O’Neal
Written by Donald Margulies, based on Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip With David Foster Wallace, a memoir by David Lipsky
Released by A24
USA. 106 min. Rated R
With Jesse Eisenberg, Jason Segel, Anna Chlumsky, Mickey Sumner […]
Directed by Kyle Patrick Alvarez
Produced by Brent Emery and Lizzie Friedman
Written by Tim Talbott, based on the book The Lucifer Effect by Philip Zimbardo
Released by IFC Films
USA. 122 min. Rated R
With Billy Crudup, Ezra Miller, Michael Angarano, Olivia Thirlby, Thomas Mann, James Wolk, and Tye Sheridan
It’s no small feat to take a 45- year-old social […]
Directed by Dito Montiel
Produced by Monica Aguirre Diez Barroso, and Mia Chang
Written by Douglas Soesbe
Released by Starz Digital
USA. 88 min. Rated R
With Robin Williams, Kathy Baker, Roberto Aguire, Giles Matthey, Eléonore Hendricks and Bob Odenkirk
Robin Williams’s last role, in the bleak yet engrossing Boulevard, is unlike any other dramatic turn in his vast filmography. It […]
Written and Directed by Rick Famuyiwa
Produced by Forest Whitaker and Nina Yang Bongiovi
Released by Open Road Films
USA. 105 min. Rated R
With Shameik Moore, Kimberly Elise, Chanel Iman, Diggy, Jib, Roger Guenveur Smith, Forest Whitaker, Blake Anderson, Quincy Brown, Zoë Kravitz, and ASAP Rocky
This Sundance darling is being praised as fresh and revolutionary, but it’s anything […]
Written and Directed by Andrea di Stefano,
Produced by Dimitri Rassam
Released by Radius-TWC
English and Spanish with English subtitles
France/Spain/Belgium. 119 min. Rated R
With Benicio Del Toro, Josh Hutcherson, Claudia Traisac, Brady Corbet, Carlos Bardem, Ana Girardot, and Micke Moreno
Pablo Escobar is probably history’s most successful, and notorious, drug dealer/narcoterrorist. At its height, his Colombian cocaine empire made […]
Directed by Josh and Benny Safdie
Produced by Oscar Boyson, Sebastian Bear McClard, Josh Safdie and Benny Safdie
Written by Ronald Bronstein and Josh Safdie, based on the novel Mad Love in New York City by Arielle Holmes
Released by Radius-TWC
USA. 93 min. Rated R
With Arielle Holmes, Caleb Landry Jones, Buddy Duress, Necro, and Eléonore Hendricks
One of the […]
Directed by Drew Taylor and Larry Weinstein
Canada. 85 min. Not rated
This 2013 documentary retells the real-life story of the six U.S. Embassy workers who sought refuge from the Canadian ambassador while their co-workers were taken hostage in Iran in 1979. This saga was depicted in Oscar-winning fashion by director/star Ben Affleck in his 2012 political […]
Directed by Ross Katz
Produced by Sam Slater, Paul M. Bernon, Jared Ian Goldman, Karrie Cox, and Marcus Cox Written by Jeff Cox and Liz Flahive
Released by Radius-TWC
USA. 90 min. Rated R
With Rose Byrne, Nick Kroll, Bobby Cannavale, Paula Garces, Jane Krakowski, Joel McHale, Bobby Moynihan, Mike Birbiglia and Josh Charles
A selfish late twenties/early thirties Manhattan […]
Directed by Douglas Kass and Roger Kass
Produced by Roger Kass
Released by Music Box Films
English, Italian, French & German with English subtitles
USA/Italy/Germany/France/Cyprus. 77 min. Not rated
In 2010, famed novelist and occasional essayist Jonathan Franzen published a long piece in The New Yorker titled “Emptying the Skies,” about the illegal trapping of migratory songbirds, like warblers, wrens, […]
