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Cop Car

Directed by Jon Watts Produced by Cody Ryder, Alicia Van Couvering, Sam Bisbee, Andrew Kortschak and Watts Written by Watts and Christopher Ford Released by Focus World USA. 88 min Rated R With Kevin Bacon, James Freedson-Jackson, Hays Wellford, Camryn Manheim and Shea Whigham One of the ballsiest young figures in film today, writer-director Jon […]

Two Step

Written, Produced, and Directed by Alex R. Johnson Produced by Johnson, Paul Biedrzycki, Pat Cassidy, Charles Mulford Released by Traverse Media USA.  93 min. Not rated With Beth Broderick, James Landry Hébert, Skyy Moore, Jason Douglas, and Ashley Rai Spillers “I don’t live in a world of maybe, I live in Texas.” This is just […]

The End of the Tour

Directed by James Ponsoldt produced by David Kanter, Matt DeRoss, James Dahl, Mark Manuel, and Ted O’Neal Written by Donald Margulies, based on Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip With David Foster Wallace, a memoir by David Lipsky Released by A24 USA. 106 min. Rated R With Jesse Eisenberg, Jason […]

The Stanford Prison Experiment

Directed by Kyle Patrick Alvarez Produced by Brent Emery and Lizzie Friedman Written by Tim Talbott, based on the book The Lucifer Effect by Philip Zimbardo Released by IFC Films USA. 122 min. Rated R With Billy Crudup, Ezra Miller, Michael Angarano, Olivia Thirlby, Thomas Mann, James Wolk, and Tye Sheridan It’s no small feat […]

Meet Me in Montenegro

Written and Directed by Alex Holdridge and Linnea Saasen Produced by Ineke Hagedorn, Holdridge, Saasen, Paul Young, Peter Principato, Chris Aagaard, and Seth Caplan Released by the Orchard USA. 90 min. Not rated With Holdridge, Saasen, Rupert Friend, and Jennifer Ulrich Writing and directing partners (and real-life couple) Linnea Saasen and Alex Holdridge star in […]

Boulevard

Directed by Dito Montiel Produced by Monica Aguirre Diez Barroso, and Mia Chang Written by Douglas Soesbe Released by Starz Digital USA. 88 min. Rated R With Robin Williams, Kathy Baker, Roberto Aguire, Giles Matthey, Eléonore Hendricks and Bob Odenkirk Robin Williams’s last role, in the bleak yet engrossing Boulevard, is unlike any other dramatic […]

Tangerine/Mala Mala

Directed by Sean Baker Produced by Marcus Cox, Karrie Cox, Darren Dean, Shih-Ching Tsou Written by Baker and Chris Bergoch Released by Magnolia Pictures USA. 87 min. Rated R With Kitana Kiki Rodriguez, Mya Taylor, James Ransone, Karren Karagulian, Mickey O’Hagan and Alla Tumanian Writer/director Sean Baker has made wonderful indie films that are sparkling […]

Infinitely Polar Bear

Written and Directed by Maya Forbes Produced by Wally Wolodarsky, Benji Kohn, Bingo Gubelmann, Sam Bisbee and Galt Niederhoffer Released by Sony Pictures Classics USA. 90 min. Rated R With Mark Ruffalo, Zoe Saldana, Imogene Wolodarsky, Ashley Aufderheide, Beth Dixon, and Keir Dullea Bostonian blueblood Cam Stuart is charming, manly, and easy on the eyes. […]

Runoff

Written and Directed by Kimberly Levin Produced by Kurt Pitzer Released by Monterey Media USA. 90 min. Rated R With Joanne Kelly, Neal Huff, Alex Shaffer, Kivlighan de Montebello, Tom Bower, and Darlene Hunt Set during an Indian summer (filmed in Kentucky), Runoff is a visually stunning look at modern farming life. The lyrical film […]