Tribeca Film Festival, which has brought audiences Eddie: The Sleepwalking Cannibal and Trollhunter in the past, brings two more B-movies with tell-it-like-it-is titles in its genre laden Midnight section, plus the world premiere of an amicable American indie with TV stars Leighton Meester and Gillian Jacobs. Life Partners Directed by Susanna Fogel Written by Susanna […]
Written and Directed by John Turturro Produced by Jeffrey Kusama-Hinte, Bill Block and Paul Hanson Released by Millennium Entertainment. USA. 90 min. Rated R With John Turturro, Woody Allen, Vanessa Paradis, Liev Schreiber, Sharon Stone, and Sofia Vergara How can a film featuring a renowned cast and led by a well-meaning director come off as […]
Directed by Zack Parker Written by Kevin Donner and Parker Released by IFC Midnight USA. 122 min Rated R With Alexia Rasmussen, Alexa Havins, Kristina Klebe, Joe Swanberg, and Erika Hoveland For about 45 minutes, Proxy is a disturbing, intriguing original indie horror film focusing on the term “indie” (character, rather than plot, driven). Then […]
Directed and Written by Seth Fisher Produced by Alexander Cendese, Garrett P. Fennelly, Jean-Raphael Ambron, Jesse Ozeri and Zak Mulligan Released by Gone Fishing Pictures/Act Zero Films USA. 85 min. Not rated With Mark Blum, Laila Robins, Seth Fisher, Mei Melançon, Alexander Cendese, Nicole Ansari, Kevin Isola, Fred Melamed, and Brian Cox The only thing […]
Directed by Drake Doremus Produced by Jonathan Schwartz, Andrea Sperling, Steven M. Rales and Mark Roybal Written by Doremus and Ben York Jones Released by Cohen Media Group. Running time: 1 hour 37 minutes. With Guy Pearce, Felicity Jones, Amy Ryan, Matthew Daddario & Mackenzie Davis Drake Doremus’s melodrama Breathe In dissects the hidden dynamic […]
Edited, Written and Directed by Daniel Patrick Carbone Produced by Matthew Petock, Zach Shedd, Carbone, and Jordan Bailey-Hoover Released by Tribeca Film USA. 80 minutes. Not Rated With Ryan Jones, Nathan Varnson, Colm O’Leary, Ivan Tomic, Thomas Cruz, Christina Starbuck and Chris Kies Fresh coming-of-age tales are difficult to make for the simple reason that […]
Directed by Rob Meyer Produced by Kirsten Duncan Fuller, Lisa K. Jenkins, Dan Lindau and R. Paul Miller Written by Luke Matheny and Meyer Released by Screen Media Films. USA. 88 min. Not rated With Kodi Smit-McPhee, James Le Gros, Alex Wolff, Michael Chen, Katie Chang, and Ben Kingsley Rob Meyer’s feature directorial debut, A […]
Directed by E. L. Katz Written by David Chirchirillo and Trent Haaga Released by Drafthouse Films USA. 88 min. Not rated With Pat Healy, Ethan Embry, David Koechner and Sara Paxton It’s possible there is someone somewhere who is unaware of the lengths to which man will go for a cash prize. Or there may […]
Written and Directed by Eliza Hittman Produced by Eliza Hittman, Shirihari Sathe, Laura Wagner Released by Variance Films USA. 82 min. Not rated With Gina Piersanti, Giovanna Salimeni, Ronen Rubinstein & Jesse Cordasco General anxiety is often described as the constant fear that something tragic is about to happen. This dread underscores the entirety of […]