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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, & […]

My Week with Marilyn

Directed by Simon Curtis Produced by David Parfitt & Harvey Weinstein Written by Adrian Hodges,based on the diaries by Colin Clark, The Prince, the Showgirl, and Me and My Week with Marilyn Released by the Weinstein Company USA/UK. 101 min. Rated R With Michelle Williams, Eddie Remayne, Kenneth Branagh, Julia Ormond, Dominic Cooper, Emma Watson, […]

Margin Call

Written and Directed by J. C. Chandor Produced by Michael Benaroya, Neal Dodson, Zachary Quinto, Robert Ogden Barnum, Corey Moosa & Joe Jenckes Released by Lionsgate/Roadside Attractions USA. 105 min. Rated R With: Kevin Spacey, Paul Bettany, Jeremy Irons, Zachary Quinto, Penn Badgley, Simon Baker, Mary McDonnell, Demi Moore & Stanley Tucci Debut writer/director J.C. […]

Martha Marcy May Marlene

Written & Directed by Sean Durkin Produced by Josh Mond, Antonio Campos, Chris Maybach & Patrick Cunningham Released by Fox Searchlight USA. 101 min. Rated R With Elizabeth Olsen, Brady Corbet, Hugh Dancy, John Hawkes & Sarah Paulson A creepy Luddite zealot, Patrick (John Hawkes), leads a small rural community in upstate New York. His […]

Texas Killing Fields

Directed by Ami Canaan Mann Produced by Michael Mann & Michael Jaffe Written by Don F. Ferrarone Released by Anchor Bay Films USA. 105 min. Rated R With Sam Worthington, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Jessica Chastain, Chloë Grace Moretz, Annabeth Gish, Sheryl Lee & Stephen Graham Texas Killing Fields is the first film by Ami Canaan […]

Take Shelter

Written & Directed by Jeff Nichols Produced by Tyler Davidson & Sophia Lin Released by Sony Pictures Classics USA. 120 min. Rated R With Michael Shannon, Jessica Chastain, Shea Whigham, Tova Stewart, Katy Mixon, Ray McKinnon & Kathy Baker   Take Shelter is about as American a film as you’ll see—its hero, an Ohio working-class […]

Restless

Directed by Gus Van Sant Produced by Brian Grazer, Ron Howard, Bryce Dallas Howard & Van Sant Written by Jason Lew Released by Sony Pictures Classics USA. 93 min. PG-13 With Henry Hopper, Mia Wasikowska, Ryo Kase, Schuyler Fisk, Jane Adams, Chin Han & Lusia Strus All this work we do as people. It can […]

Higher Ground

Directed by Vera Farmiga Produced by Claude Dal Farra, Renn Hawkey, Carly Hugo, Matt Parker & Jon Rubinstein Written by Tim Metcalfe & Carolyn S. Briggs, based on her memoir This Dark World: A Memoir of Salvation Found and Lost Released by Sony Pictures Classics USA. 109 min. Rated R With Vera Farmiga, McKenzie Turner, John […]