Written & Directed by Woody Allen Produced by Letty Aronson, Stephen Tenenbaum & Edward Walson Released by Sony Pictures Classics USA. 96 min. Rated PG-13 With Alec Baldwin, Cate Blanchett, Louis C. K., Bobby Cannavale, Andrew Dice Clay, Sally Hawkins, Peter Sarsgaard & Michael Stuhlbarg Spot the reference. That’s part of the appeal of movies […]
Written & Directed by Andrew Bujalski Produced by Houston King & Alex Lipschultz Released by Kino Lorber USA. 92 min. Not rated With Patrick Riester, Wiley Wiggins, Myles Paige, Robin Schwartz & Gerald Peary If being unique and outside of the box were all that Computer Chess had going for it, it wouldn’t have been […]
Produced & Directed by Ron Maxwell Written by Bill Kauffman, based on the novel by Harold Frederic Released by Brainstorm Media USA. 120 min. PG-13 With Billy Campbell, Angus MacFadyen, Peter Fonda, Casey Brown & Lucy Boynton Civil War sesquicentennial celebrations continue to reignite interest in the conflict that divided the nation over the issue […]
Written & Directed by Ryan Coogler Produced by Nina Yang Bongiovi & Forest Whitaker Released by the Weinstein Company USA. 85 min. Rated R With Michael B. Jordan, Melonie Diaz, Octavia Spencer, Kevin Durand, Chad Michael Murray & Ahna O’Reilly In the early morning hours of New Year’s Day 2009, 22-year-old Oscar Julius Grant III, […]
Written & Directed by Sebastián Silva Produced by Juan de Dios Larraín & Pablo Larraín Released by IFC Films Chile. 100 min. Not rated With Michael Cera, Gaby Hoffmann, Juan Andrés Silva, José Miguel Silva & Agustín Silva Early on in Sebastián Silva’s small, strange, and perfect movie Crystal Fairy, Michael Cera’s character, Jamie, a […]
Written & Directed by Nat Faxon & Jim Rash Produced by Kevin J. Walsh & Tom Rice Released by Fox Searchlight USA. 103 min. Rated PG-13 With Steve Carell, Toni Collette, Allison Janney, AnnaSophia Robb, Sam Rockwell, Maya Rudolph & Liam James It isn’t a secret by now that screenwriters Nat Faxon and Jim Rash […]
Directed by Daisy von Scherler Mayer Produced by Patty West, Chris Schwartz & Andrew Carlberg Written by Neil LaBute, based on his play Released by Leeden Media USA. 84 min. Not rated With Adam Brody, Kristen Bell, Zoe Kazan, Mía Maestro, Jennifer Morrison & Emily Watson In Some Girl(s), Adam Brody plays a nameless man […]
Directed by Richard Linklater Written by Linklater, Ethan Hawke & Julie Delpy Produced by Linklater, Christos V. Konstantakopoulos & Sara Woodhatch Released by Sony Pictures Classics USA. 108 min. Rated R With Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy, Ariane Labed, Athina Rachel Tsangari, Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick, Walter Lassally & Xenia Kalogeropoulou In Before Midnight, time has moved on […]
The main difference that sets the Cannes Film Festival apart from other fests is the anticipation: you want to see the films debuting in the competition, especially if they are directed by the likes of the Coen brothers, Alexander Payne, Roman Polanski, and Asghar Farhadi, to name four. Few shots in the dark here. There […]