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About Cherry

Directed by Stephen Elliott Written by Elliott & Lorelei Lee Produced by Liz Destro & Jordan Kessler Released by IFC Midnight USA. 102 min. Not rated With Ashley Hinshaw, Dev Patel, James Franco, Heather Graham, Lili Taylor, Diane Farr & Jonny Weston About Cherry, a disappointingly bland and underachieving film about the porn industry, makes […]

Arbitrage

Written & Directed by Nicholas Jarecki Produced by Laura Bickford, Kevin Turen, Justin Nappi & Robert Salerno Released by Lionsgate/Roadside Attractions USA. 100 min. Rated R With Richard Gere, Susan Sarandon, Tim Roth, Brit Marling, Laetitia Casta, Nate Parker, Stuart Margolin, Chris Eigeman, Graydon Carter, & Bruce Altman Writer/director Nicholas Jarecki turns his debut feature […]

10 Years

Written & Directed by Jamie Linden Produced by Channing Tatum, Reid Carolin, Marty Bowen & Wyck Godfrey Released by Anchor Bay Films USA. 90 min. Rated PG-13 With Lynn Collins, Rosario Dawson, Jenna Dewan-Tatum, Brian Geraghty, Ari Graynor, Oscar Issac, Ron Livingston, Justin Long, Anthony Mackie, Kate Mara, Max Minghella, Eiko Nijo, Aubrey Plaza, Scott […]

Here

Directed by Braden King Produced by Lars Knudsen & Jay Van Hoy   Written by King & Dani Valent Released by Strand Releasing USA. 126 min. Not Rated  With Ben Foster, Lubna Azabal, and the voice of Peter Coyote Two lone world travelers, an engineer and an artist, meet at a café. He’s an American engrossed […]

Collaborator

Written & Directed by Martin Donovan Produced by Luca Matrundola Released by Tribeca Film (and video-on-demand) USA/Canada. 87 min. Not rated With Martin Donovan, David Morse, Olivia Williams, Eileen Ryan & Katherine Helmond Actor Martin Donovan, a familiar face in American independent film since starring in Hal Hartley films in the early 1990s, makes his […]

Bernie

Directed by Richard Linklater Produced by Linkater & Ginger Sledge Written by Linklater & Skip Hollandsworth Released by Millennium Entertainment USA. 104 min. Rated R With Jack Black, Shirley MacLaine, Matthew McConaughey, Brady Coleman, Richard Robichaux & Rick Dial Based on one of those true stories that are memorable, but not exactly incredible, regional human […]

4:44 Last Day on Earth

Written & Directed by Abel Ferrara Produced by Juan de Dios Larraín, Pablo Larraín, Peter Danner, Brahim Chioua & Vincent Maraval Released by IFC Films USA/Switzerland/France. 85 min. Not rated With Willem Dafoe, Shanyn Leigh, Natasha Lyonne, Paul Hipp, Dierdra McDowell, Triana Jackson, Trung Nguyen & Anita Pallenberg Samuel Beckett Abel Ferrara is not. Subject […]

Detachment

Directed by Tony Kaye Written by Carl Lund Produced by Austin Stark, Benji Kohn, Bingo Gubelmann, Greg Shapiro, Lund & Chris Papavasiliou Released by Tribeca Film USA. 100 min. Not rated With Adrien Brody, Marcia Gay Harden, Christina Hendricks, William Petersen, Bryan Cranston, Tim Blake Nelson, Betty Kaye, Sami Gayle, Lucy Liu, Blythe Danner & […]

Rampart

Directed by Oren Moverman Produced by Lawrence Inglee, Clark Peterson, by Ben Foster & Ken Kao Written by James Ellroy & Moverman Released by Millenium Entertainment USA. 112 min. Rated R With Woody Harrelson, Robin Wright, Cynthia Nixon, Anne Heche, Sigourney Weaver, Ben Foster, Ned Beatty, Steve Buscemi, Ice Cube & Brie Larson A dirty […]