Written & by Directed by Jenée LaMarque Produced by Robin Schorr & Steven J. Berger Released by Dada Films USA. 90 min. Rated R With Zoe Kazan, Jake Johnson, Ron Livingston & Danny Pudi The Pretty One is a film that fits its name. It is simple, enjoyable, and cute, yet possesses the same depth […]
Directed by Matt Porterfield Written by Porterfield & Amy Belk Produced by Steve Holmgren, Ryan Zacarias & Eric Bannat Released by Strand Releasing USA. 90 min. Not rated With Deragh Campbell, Hannah Gross, Kim Taylor, Ned Oldham, Nicholas Petr & Geoff Grace Starring a mostly unknown cast and made by a fairly new director (Matt […]
Written & Directed by M. Blash Produced by Neil Kopp, Ryan Crisman, Riel Roch-Decter & David Guy Levy Released by Monterey Media USA. 96 min. Rated R With Jena Malone, Chloë Sevigny, Luke Grimes, Josh Hamilton, Devon Gearhart, Lana Elizabeth Green & Michael O’Keefe Director M. Blash unites Chloë Sevigny and Jena Malone as bereaved […]
Directed by Robert Berger, Patrick Daniels & Karlyn Michelson Written by Berger, Daniels & Gregory Produced by Caterina Bartha, Berger & Daniels Released by Collective: Unconscious & 3-Legged Dog USA. 80 min. Not rated With Patrick Daniels, Irving Gregory, Noel Dinneen, Sam Zuckerman, Debbie Troche & Nora Woolley In recent years, the (over)use of 3-D […]
Directed by Godfrey Reggio Produced by Lawrence Taub & Reggio Released by Cinedigm USA. 87 min. Not rated The films of Godfrey Reggio have no dialogue, mainly because, to paraphrase the director, he believes that language is an artifact constructed thousands of years ago which does not describe our lives today. So he rejects it, […]
Written & Directed by Destin Daniel Cretton Produced by Maren Olson, Asher Goldstein, Joshua Astrachan & Ron Najor Released by Cinedigm USA. 96 min. Rated R With Brie Larson, John Gallagher Jr., Kaitlyn Dever, Rami Malek, Keith Stanfield, Kevin Hernandez, Melora Walters, Alex Calloway & Stephanie Beatriz A film that hits viewers square in the […]
Directed by John Wells Produced by Steve Traxler, Jean Doumanian, George Clooney & Grant Heslov Written by Tracy Letts, based on his play Released by the Weinstein Company USA. 119. Rated R With Meryl Streep, Julia Roberts, Ewan McGregor, Chris Cooper, Abigail Breslin, Benedict Cumberbatch, Juliette Lewis, Margo Martindale, Dermot Mulroney, Julianne Nicholson, Sam Shepard […]
Directed by Martin Scorsese Produced by Scorsese, Leonardo DiCaprio, Riza Aziz, Emma Tillinger Koskoff, and Joey McFarland Written by Terence Winter, from the book by Jordan Belfort Released by Paramount Pictures USA. 179 min. Rated R (and how!) With Leonardo DiCaprio, Jonah Hill, Margot Robbie, Rob Reiner, Jon Favreau, Spike Jonze, Kyle Chandler, Jon Bernthal, […]
Camera, Edited & Directed by Joe Swanberg Produced by Swanberg & Adam Donaghey Written by Swanberg & Jane Adams Released by Factory 25 USA. 89 min. Not rated With Jane Adams, Sophia Takal, Kent Osborne, Larry Fessenden, Lawrence Michael Levine, Ti West & David Siskind With each new film Joe Swanberg makes—and as prolific and […]