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The Do-Deca-Pentathlon

Written & Directed by Jay Duplass & Mark Duplass Produced by Jay Duplass, Mark Duplass & Stephanie Langhoff Released by Red Flag Releasing/Fox Searchlight Pictures (available on DVD/Blu-ray Sept. 18) USA.90 min Rated R With Steve Zissis, Mark Kelly, Jennifer Lafleur, Julie Vorus & Reid Williams Released just before the start of the London Olympics, […]

Celeste and Jesse Forever

Directed by Lee Toland Krieger Produced by Lee Nelson, Jennifer Todd & Suzanne Todd Written by Rashida Jones & Will McCormack Released by Sony Pictures Classics USA. 89 min. Rated R With Rashida Jones, Andy Samberg, Chris Messina, Ari Graynor, Eric Christian Olsen, Will McCormack, Rebecca Dayan, Rich Sommer, Matthew Del Negro, Rafi Gavron, Elijah […]

Ruby Sparks

Directed by Jonathan Dayton & Valerie Faris Produced by Albert Berger & Ron Yerxa Written by Zoe Kazan Released by Fox Searchlight Pictures USA. 104 min. Rated R With Paul Dano, Zoe Kazan, Antonio Banderas, Annette Bening, Steve Coogan, Elliott Gould, Chris Messina, Alia Shawkat, Aasif Mandvi, Toni Trucks & Deborah Ann Woll Who is […]

Grassroots

Directed by Stephen Gyllenhaal Produced by Peggy Case, Brent Stiefel, Matthew R. Brady, Michael Huffington & Peggy Rajski Written by Justin Rhodes and Gyllenhaal, based on the book Zioncheck for President: A True Story of Idealism and Madness in American Politics by Phil Campbell Released by Samuel Goldwyn Films USA. 100 min. Rated R With […]

Seeking a Friend for the End of the World

Written & Directed by Lorene Scafaria Produced by Steve Golin, Joy Gorman Wettels, Steven Rales & Mark Roybal Released by Focus Features USA. 101 min. Rated R With Steve Carell, Keira Knightley, Connie Britton, Adam Brody, Rob Corddry, Gillian Jacobs, Derek Luke, Melanie Lynskey, T. J. Miller, Mark Moses, Patton Oswalt & William Petersen Seeking […]

Lola Versus

Directed by Daryl Wein Produced by Michael London, Jocelyn Hayes Simpson & Janice Williams Written by Zoe Lister-Jones & Wein Released by Fox Searchlight Pictures USA. 87 min. Rated R With Greta Gerwig, Joel Kinnaman, Zoe Lister-Jones, Hamish Linklater, Bill Pullman, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Jay Pharoah & Debra Winger Almost 30 years old, New Yorker Lola […]

Peace, Love, & Misunderstanding

Directed by Bruce Beresford Produced by Claude Dal Farra, Brice Dal Farra, Lauren Munsch & Jonathan Burkhart Written by Christina Mengert & Joseph Muszynski Released by IFC Films USA. 96 min. Rated R With Jane Fonda, Catherine Keener, Nat Wolff, Elizabeth Olsen, Chace Crawford,Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Kyle MacLachlan & Marissa O’Donnell Over 30 years ago […]

Moonrise Kingdom

Directed by Wes Anderson Produced by Anderson, Scott Rudin, Steven Rales & Jeremy Dawson Written by Anderson  & Roman Coppola Released by Focus Features USA. 100 min. Rated PG-13 With Bruce Willis , Edward Norton, Bill Murray, Frances McDormand, Tilda Swinton, Jared Gilman, Kara Hayward, Jason Schwartzman & Bob Balaban Next year marks the centennial […]

God Bless America

Written & Directed by Bobcat Goldthwait Produced by Sean McKittrick and Jeff Culotta Released by Magnet Releasing USA. 98 min. Rated R. With Joel Murray, Tara Lynne Barr, Mackenzie Brooke Smith, Melissa Page Hamilton, Rich McDonald, Aris Alvarado, Maddie Hasson & Larry Miller You might recall Bobcat Goldthwait from the 1980s and ’90s as that […]