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Comedy

Damsels in Distress

Written & Directed by Whit Stillman Produced by Mr. Stillman, Martin Shafer & Liz Glotzer Released by Sony Pictures Classics. USA. 99 min. Rated PG-13 With Greta Gerwig, Adam Brody, Analeigh Tipton, Megalyn Echikunwoke, Carrie MacLemore, Ryan Metcalf & Hugo Becker Whit Stillman’s first film since 1998’s The Last Days of Disco is an appreciated […]

The Trouble With Bliss

Directed & Edited by Michael Knowles Produced by John Ramos, Knowles & John Will Written by Douglas Light & Knowles, based on East Fifth Bliss by Light Released by 7A Production/Variance Films USA. 97 min. Not rated With Michael C. Hall,  Chris Messina, Brie Larson, Brad William Henke, Sarah Shahi, Peter Fonda & Lucy Liu […]

Casa de Mi Padre

Directed by Matt Piedmont Written by Andrew Steele Produced by Will Ferrell, Adam McKay, Emilio Diez Barroso, Darlene Caamaño Loquet & Steele Released by NALA/Pantelion Films Spanish with English subtitles. USA. 84 min. Rated R With Will Ferrell, Gael García Bernal, Diego Luna, Genesis Rodriguez, Pedro Armendáriz Jr, Nick Offerman, Efren Ramirez & Adrian Martinez […]

Another Happy Day

Written & Directed by Sam Levinson Produced by Ellen Barkin, Pamela Fielder, Johnny Lin, Michael Nardelli, Salli Newman, Celine Rattray & Todd Traina Released by Phase 4 Films USA. 115 min. Rated R With Ellen Barkin, Ezra Miller, Kate Bosworth, Demi Moore, Thomas Haden Church, George Kennedy, Ellen Burstyn, Siobhan Fallon & Michael Nardelli …And the […]

The Descendants

Directed by Alexander Payne Produced by Jim Burke & Payne Written by Payne, Nat Faxon & Jim Rash, based on the novel by Kaui Hart Hemmings;; Released by Fox Searchlight. USA. 115 min. Rated R With George Clooney, Shailene Woodley, Beau Bridges, Robert Forster, Judy Greer, Matthew Lillard, Nick Krause, Amara Miller, Mary Birdsong, & […]

Tucker and Dale vs. Evil

Directed by Eli Craig Produced by Morgan Jurgenson, Albert Klychak, Rosanne Milliken & Deepak Nayar Written by Craig & Jurgenson Released by Magnet Releasing USA. 89 min. Rated R With Tyler Labine, Alan Tudyk, Katrina Bowden, Jesse Moss & Philip Granger You can tell by its deliberately corny name that Tucker and Dale vs. Evil, […]

A Bird of the Air

Directed by Margaret Whitton Produced by Steven Tabakin &Whitton Written by Roger Towne, based on the novel The Loop by Joe Coomer Released by Paladin USA. 98 min. Not Rated With Jackson Hurst, Rachel Nichols, Linda Emond, Buck Henry, Judith Ivey, Phyllis Somerville, Erik Jensen, Matte Osian, Rocco Sisto & Louis Zorich   A Bird […]

Our Idiot Brother

Directed by Jesse Peretz Produced by Anthony Bregman, Marc Turtletaub & Peter Saraf Written by Evgenia Peretz & David Schisgall Released by the Weinstein Company USA. 90 min. Rated R With Paul Rudd, Elizabeth Banks, Zooey Deschanel, Emily Mortimer, Steve Coogan, Hugh Dancy, Kathryn Hahn, Rashida Jones, Shirley Knight, T. J. Miller & Matthew Mindler  Our Idiot Brother is […]