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Restless

Directed by Gus Van Sant Produced by Brian Grazer, Ron Howard, Bryce Dallas Howard & Van Sant Written by Jason Lew Released by Sony Pictures Classics USA. 93 min. PG-13 With Henry Hopper, Mia Wasikowska, Ryo Kase, Schuyler Fisk, Jane Adams, Chin Han & Lusia Strus All this work we do as people. It can […]

Higher Ground

Directed by Vera Farmiga Produced by Claude Dal Farra, Renn Hawkey, Carly Hugo, Matt Parker & Jon Rubinstein Written by Tim Metcalfe & Carolyn S. Briggs, based on her memoir This Dark World: A Memoir of Salvation Found and Lost Released by Sony Pictures Classics USA. 109 min. Rated R With Vera Farmiga, McKenzie Turner, John […]

Drive

Written & Directed by Nicolas Winding Refn Produced by Marc Platt, John Palermo, Gigi Pritzker, Michael Litvak & Adam Siegel Released by FilmDistrict USA. 100 min. Rated R With Ryan Gosling, Carey Mulligan, Bryan Cranston, Oscar Isaac, Christina Hendricks, Ron Perlman & Albert Brooks It shouldn’t have surprised me that the new thriller Drive, for which director […]

The Killing (1956)

The Killing

THE KILLING (1956) Directed by Stanley Kubrick Produced by James B. Harris Written by Kubrick, dialogue by Jim Thompson, based on the novel Clean Break by Lionel White Released by the Criterion Collection USA. 84 min. Not rated With Sterling Hayden, Coleen Gray, Vince Edwards, Jay Flippen, Ted DeCorsia, Marie Windsor, Elisha Cook & Timothy […]

The Debt

Directed by John Madden Produced by Matthew Vaughn, Kris Thykier, Eduardo Rossoff & Eitan Evan Written by Vaughn & Jane Goldman & Peter Straughan, based on the film Ha-Hov Released by Focus Features USA. 113 min. Rated R With Helen Mirren, Tom Wilkinson, Ciarán Hinds, Jessica Chastain, Marton Csokas, Sam Worthington & Jesper Christensen Unusually female-centric, The Debt is a […]

Our Idiot Brother

Directed by Jesse Peretz Produced by Anthony Bregman, Marc Turtletaub & Peter Saraf Written by Evgenia Peretz & David Schisgall Released by the Weinstein Company USA. 90 min. Rated R With Paul Rudd, Elizabeth Banks, Zooey Deschanel, Emily Mortimer, Steve Coogan, Hugh Dancy, Kathryn Hahn, Rashida Jones, Shirley Knight, T. J. Miller & Matthew Mindler  Our Idiot Brother is […]

Hesher

Directed by Spencer Susser Produced by Lucy Cooper, Matthew Weaver, Scott Prisand, Natalie Portman, Spencer Susser, Johnny Lin & Win Sheridan Written by Susser & David Michôd, based on a story by Brian Charles Frank Released by Wrekin Hill Entertainment USA. 102 min. Rated R With Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Devin Brochu, Rainn Wilson, Piper Laurie & […]