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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 […]

Nobody Walks

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. […]

The Paperboy

Directed by Lee Daniels Produced by Hilary Shor, Daniels, Avi Lerner, Ed Cathell III & Cassian Elwes Written by Pete Dexter & Daniels, based on the novel by Dexter Released by Millennium Films USA. 106 min. Rated R With Matthew McConaughey, Zac Efron, David Oyelowo, Macy Gray, John Cusack, Nealla Gordon, Scott Glenn & Nicole […]

Union Square

Directed by Nancy Savoca Produced by Neda Armian & Richard Guay Written by Savoca & Mary Tobler Released by Dada Films USA. 80 min. Rated R With Mira Sorvino, Tammy Blanchard, Mike Doyle, Michael Rispoli, Daphne Rubin-Vega & Patti LuPone On a sunny afternoon in Union Square, a distraught woman laden down with shopping bags […]

Beasts of the Southern Wild

Directed by Benh Zeitlin Produced by Dan Janvey, Josh Penn & Michael Gottwald Written by Lucy Alibar & Zeitlin, based on the stage play Juicy and Delicious by Alibar; Released by Fox Searchlight Pictures USA. 93 min. Rated PG-13 With Quvenzhané Wallis & Dwight Henry Composer Dan Romer has said in an interview that when […]