Written & Directed by J. C. Chandor Produced by Neal Dodson, Anna Gerb, Justin Nappi & Teddy Schwarzman Released by Lionsgate/Roadside Attractions USA. 107 min. PG-13 With Robert Redford This steadily absorbing man-adrift-on-a-damaged-sailboat saga has possibly the three most suspenseful sequences of the year and in many ways blows another survival-against-the odds-odyssey, Gravity, out of […]
Directed by Robert Rodriguez Written by Kyle Ward, based on a story by Robert Rodriguez & Marcel Rodriguez; Produced by Robert Rodriguez, Rick Schwartz, Sergei Bespalov, Alexander Rodnyansky, Aaron Kaufman & Iliana Nikolic Released by Open Road Films USA. 107 min. Not rated With Danny Trejo, Michelle Rodriguez, Sofia Vergara, Amber Heard, Antonio Banderas, Cuba […]
Directed by Andrew Lau Produced by Peter Ho-Sun Chan & Jojo Hui Yuet-chun Written by Aubrey Lam & Joyce Chan; Released by Well Go USA Mandarin with English subtitles. China/Hong Kong. 113. Rated R With Huang Xiaoming, Ethan Juan, Shawn Yue & Li Yuchun The latest film from director Andrew Lau (Infernal Affairs) kicks off […]
Directed by Stephen Fung Produced by Wang Zhongjun Written by Kuo-fu Chen Released by Well Go USA Release Mandarin with English subtitles China. 100 min. Not rated With Jayden Yuan, Tony Leung Ka Fai, Angelababy, Eddie Peng Yu-Yen, Feng Shaofeng, Peter Stormare & Daniel Wu You might recall a little crazy movie called Tai Chi […]
Written & Directed by Eran Creevy Produced by Rory Aitken & Ben Pugh Released by IFC Films UK. 99 min. Not rated With James McAvoy, Mark Strong, Andrea Riseborough, Peter Mullan, David Morrissey, Jason Flemyng & Ruth Sheen Welcome to the Punch is British director Eran Creevy’s follow up to his award-winning debut Shifty (2008), about […]
Film Comment Selects, now in its 13th edition, is a typically eclectic and wide-ranging selection of films chosen by the editors of Film Comment, the Film Society of Lincoln Center’s magazine. Think of it as the rambunctious, unruly younger sibling of the New York Film Festival. With a program encompassing challenging art-house films, genre exercises, […]
Directed by Stephen Fung Produced by Zhang Dajun, Daniel Wu & Fung Written by Chen Hsiao Tse, Zhang Jialu & Chen Kuo-fu Released by Variance Films/Well Go USA Mandarin with English subtitles China. 94 min. Rated PG-13 With Jayden Yuan, Angelababy, Eddie Peng, Tony Leung Ka-fai & Shu Qi In Tai Chi Zero, the “Zero” […]
Written & Directed by Michael J. Bassett, based on the character created by Robert E. Howard Produced by Paul Berrow, Samuel Hadida & Kevan Van Thompson Released by Radius/TWC France/Czech Republic/UK. 104 min. Rated R With James Purefoy, Max von Sydow, Pete Postlethwaite, Rachel Hurd-Wood, Patrick Hurd-Wood, Alice Krige, Jason Flemyng & Lucas Stone Solomon […]
Directed by Wuershan Produced by Chen KuoFu Screenplay by Ran Ping, Ran JiaNan Produced by Yang HongTao, Wang Ruojun, Wang ZhongJun, Guo L Released by Well Go USA Mandarin with English subtitles China. 133 min. Not rated With Xun Zhou, Kun Chen, Wei Zhao & Mini Yang Wuershan’s Painted Skin: The Resurrection, a loose sequel […]