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Arthur Newman

Directed by Dante Ariola Written by Becky Johnston Produced by Alisa Tager, Johnston, Mac Cappuccino & Brian Oliver Released by Cinedigm USA. 101 min. Not rated With Colin Firth, Emily Blunt, Anne Heche & Lucas Hedges Mistaken and reinvention of identity is a longstanding theme within popular culture, from North by Northwest to Mad Men?the […]

Somebody Up There Likes Me

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 […]

Electrick Children

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, […]

The Girl

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 […]

Saving Lincoln

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 […]

Any Day Now

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 […]

King Kelly

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 […]

Starlet

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 […]

The Sessions

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 […]