Written & Directed by Bob Byington Produced by Stuart Bohart, Hans Graffunder, Christos Konstantakopoulos & Nick Offerman Released by Tribeca Film USA. 76 min. Not rated With Keith Poulson, Nick Offerman, Jess Weixler, Stephanie Hunt, Marshall Bell, Kate Lyn Sheil The opening credits set a peculiar tone, sashaying between animation, one-liners, time jumps, and the […]
Written & Directed by Rebecca Thomas Produced by Jessica Caldwell & Richard Neustadter Released by Phase 4 Films USA. 93 min. Not rated With Julia Garner, Rory Culkin, Liam Aike, Bill Sage, Cynthia Watros, Billy Zane, John Patrick Amedorl, Rachel Pirard, Cassidy Gard & Paola Baldlon Electrick Children pulls from a bizarre combination of coming-age-films, […]
Written & Directed by David Riker Produced by Paul Mezey Released by Brainstorm Media USA. 94 min. Not rated With Abbie Cornish, Will Patton & Maritza Santiago Hernández Reminiscent of 2008’s Frozen River, another film about a financially floundering single mother taking up human trafficking, The Girl examines issues of illegal immigration and economic class […]
Directed by Salvador Litvak Produced by Reuben Lim & Salvador Litvak Written by Nina Davidovich Litvak and Salvador Litvak Released by Pictures from the Fringe USA. 101 min. Not rated With Tom Amandes, Lea Coco, Penelope Ann Miller, Bruce Davison, Creed Bratton, Josh Stamberg, Robert Craighead & Saidah Arrika Ekulona The 150th anniversary of the […]
Directed by Travis Fine Produced by Fine, Kristine Hostetter Fine, Chip Hourihan & Liam Finn Written by Fine & George Arthur Bloom Released by Music Box Films. USA. 97 min. Rated R With Alan Cumming, Garret Dillahunt, Isaac Leyva, Frances Fisher, Jamie Anne Allman, Kelli Williams, Gregg Henry & Chris Mulkey It’s 1979, and being […]
Directed by Andrew Neel Produced by Tom Davis, Luke Meyer, Ethan Palmer & Andrew Corkin Written by Neel & Mike Roberts Released by GoDigital/SeeThink Films USA. 84 min. Not rated With Louisa Krause, Libby Woodbridge, Roderick Hill & Will Brill The outlook on today’s Internet obsessed youth culture is bleak, even terrifying at times, in […]
Directed by Sean Baker Produced by Blake Ashman Kipervaser Written by Baker & Chris Bergoch Released by Music Box Films USA. 104 Min. Not rated With Dree Hemingway, Besedka Johnson, Stella Maeve, James Ransone & Karren Karagulian The fringe of Hollywood’s Walk of Fame attracts all kinds of get-rich-quick dreamers and schemers, now and in […]
Directed by Ben Lewin Produced by Judi Levine, Stephen Nemeth & Lewin Written by Lewin, based on the article “On Seeing a Sex Surrogate,” by Mark O’Brien Released by Fox Searchlight Pictures USA. 95 min. Rated R (What else?) With John Hawkes, Helen Hunt, William H. Macy, Moon Bloodgood, Annika Marks & Rhea Perlman No […]
Directed by Ry Russo-Young Produced by Jonathan Schwartz, Andrea Sperling & Alicia Van Couvering Written by Lena Dunham &Russo-Young; Released by Magnolia Pictures. USA. 82 min. Rated R With John Krasinski, Olivia Thirlby, Rosemarie DeWitt, India Ennenga, Dylan McDermott, Rhys Wakefield & Justin Kirk It seems that It girl Lena Dunham can do no wrong. […]