Directed by Rob Epstein & Jeffrey Friedman Produced by Heidi Jo Markel, Laura Rister, Jason Weinberg, and Jim Young Written by Andy Bellin Released by Radius TWC USA. 92 min. Rated R With Amanda Seyfried, Peter Sarsgaard, Hank Azaria, Wes Bentley, Adam Brody, Bobby Cannavale, James Franco, Debi Mazar, Chris Noth, Robert Patrick, Eric Roberts, […]
Directed by Paul Schrader Written by Brett Easton Ellis Produced by Braxton Pope Released by IFC Films USA. 100 min. Not rated With Lindsay Lohan, James Deen, Nolan Gerard Funk, Amanda Brooks, Tenille Huston, & Gus Van Sant In recent interviews, Paul Schrader has talked about the “death of cinema” in relation to his latest […]
Written & Directed by David Gordon Green, based on the film Either Way by Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurdsson Produced by Lisa Muskat, Derrick Tseng, Craig Zobel, James Belfer & Green Released by Magnolia Pictures USA. 94 min. Rated R With Paul Rudd, Emile Hirsch, Lance Legault & Joyce Payne Before David Gordon Green went Hollywood and […]
For the first time since it was founded 11 years ago, the narrative films competing for awards at the Tribeca Film Festival made up a noteworthy and motley bunch, and it was a real race. Usually gems by an unknown filmmaker made without any stars can be discovered in the various sidebars, but this year, […]
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 […]