Directed by Bruce LaBruce USA/Germany/France. 62 min. Not rated With François Sagat, Rocco Giovanni, Wolf Hudson, Eddie Diaz, Andrew James, Matthew Rush, Erik Rhodes, Francesco D’Macho, Adam Killian & Tony Ward This sometimes sexy, sometimes chilling horror-porn-art house piece has a strong message, yet it feels like Bruce LaBruce light. There’s none of the raw […]
Directed by Eli Craig Produced by Morgan Jurgenson, Albert Klychak, Rosanne Milliken & Deepak Nayar Written by Craig & Jurgenson Released by Magnet Releasing USA. 89 min. Rated R With Tyler Labine, Alan Tudyk, Katrina Bowden, Jesse Moss & Philip Granger You can tell by its deliberately corny name that Tucker and Dale vs. Evil, […]
Written & Directed by Jeff Nichols Produced by Tyler Davidson & Sophia Lin Released by Sony Pictures Classics USA. 120 min. Rated R With Michael Shannon, Jessica Chastain, Shea Whigham, Tova Stewart, Katy Mixon, Ray McKinnon & Kathy Baker Take Shelter is about as American a film as you’ll see—its hero, an Ohio working-class […]
Directed by Margaret Whitton Produced by Steven Tabakin &Whitton Written by Roger Towne, based on the novel The Loop by Joe Coomer Released by Paladin USA. 98 min. Not Rated With Jackson Hurst, Rachel Nichols, Linda Emond, Buck Henry, Judith Ivey, Phyllis Somerville, Erik Jensen, Matte Osian, Rocco Sisto & Louis Zorich A Bird […]
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 […]
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 […]
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) 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 […]
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 […]