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Comedy

Inside Llewyn Davis

Written & Directed by Joel & Ethan Coen Produced by Scott Rudin, Ethan Coen & Joel Coen Released by CBS Films USA. 105 min. Rated R With Oscar Isaac, Carey Mulligan, John Goodman, Garrett Hedlund, Justin Timberlake,  F. Murray Abraham, Stark Sands, Adam Driver, Jeanine Serralles, Max Casella, Ethan Phillips, Robin Bartlett, Jerry Grayson & […]

Nebraska

Directed by Alexander Payne Produced by Albert Berger & Ron Yerxa Written by Bob Nelson Released by Paramount Vantage USA  115 min. Rated R With Bruce Dern, Will Forte, June Squibb, Bob Odenkirk & Stacy Keach Alexander Payne has built a unique career exploring life’s comedy and tragedy through indelible three-dimensional everymen and women. Following […]

All Is Bright

Directed By Phil Morrison Produced by Touchy Feely Films, GreeneStreet Films & Sidney Kimmel Entertainment Written By Melissa James Gibson Released by Anchor Bay Films USA. 107 min, Rated R With Paul Giamatti, Paul Rudd, Sally Hawkins, Amy Landecker & Tatyana Richaudf All Is Bright, director Phil Morrison’s second feature, is a long awaited follow […]

Don Jon

Written & Directed by Joseph Gordon-Levitt Produced by Ram Bergman Released by Relativity USA. 90 min. Rated R With Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Scarlett Johansson, Julianne Moore, Tony Danza, Rob Brown, Glenne Headly, Brie Larson & Jeremy Luke If MTV’s The Jersey Shore was remade into a feature-length film and given a darkly humorous treatment, you’d have […]

Prince Avalanche

Written & Directed by David Gordon Green, based on the film Either Way by Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurdsson Produced by Lisa Muskat, Derrick Tseng, Craig Zobel, James Belfer & Green Released by Magnolia Pictures USA. 94 min. Rated R With Paul Rudd, Emile Hirsch, Lance Legault & Joyce Payne Before David Gordon Green went Hollywood and […]

Computer Chess

Written & Directed by Andrew Bujalski Produced by Houston King & Alex Lipschultz Released by Kino Lorber USA. 92 min. Not rated With Patrick Riester, Wiley Wiggins, Myles Paige, Robin Schwartz & Gerald Peary If being unique and outside of the box were all that Computer Chess had going for it, it wouldn’t have been […]

The Way Way Back

Written & Directed by Nat Faxon & Jim Rash Produced by Kevin J. Walsh & Tom Rice Released by Fox Searchlight USA. 103 min. Rated PG-13 With Steve Carell, Toni Collette, Allison Janney, AnnaSophia Robb, Sam Rockwell, Maya Rudolph & Liam James It isn’t a secret by now that screenwriters Nat Faxon and Jim Rash […]

The Kings of Summer

Directed by Jordan Vogt-Roberts Produced by Tyler Davidson, Peter Saraf & John Hodges Written by Chris Galletta Released by CBS Films USA. 95 min. Rated R With Nick Robinson, Gabriel Basso, Moises Arias, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Marc Evan Jackson, Erin Moriarty, Alison Brie & Mary Lynn Rajskub The Kings of Summer open with a […]

Frances Ha

Directed by Noah Baumbach Written by Baumbach & Greta Gerwig Produced by Mr. Baumbach, Scott Rudin, Lila Yacoub & Rodrigo Teixeira Released by IFC Films. USA. 86 min. Rated R With Greta Gerwig, Mickey Sumner, Patrick Heusinger, Adam Driver, Michael Zegen & Grace Gummer Frances Ha is yet another story about a white 20-something woman […]