Written & Directed by Alexandre de la Patellière & Matthieu Delaporte, based on their play Produced by Dimitri Rassam & Jérôme Seydoux Released by Under the Milky Way, now available on iTunes French with English subtitles French. 109 min. Not rated With Patrick Bruel, Valérie Benguigui, Charles Berling, Judith El Zein, Guillaume de Tonquédec & […]

Written & Directed by Satoshi Miki Produced by Taro Nagamatsuya, Yuko Shiomaki & Yusuke Wakabayashi Released by Pictures Dept. Japan. 119 min. Not rated With Kazuya Kamenashi, Yuki Uchida & Ryo Kase Viewers may be in for a bumpy ride with this intriguing but enigmatic film. As it begins, it seems solidly in the realm […]

Directed by Robert Rodriguez Written by Kyle Ward, based on a story by Robert Rodriguez & Marcel Rodriguez; Produced by Robert Rodriguez, Rick Schwartz, Sergei Bespalov, Alexander Rodnyansky, Aaron Kaufman & Iliana Nikolic Released by Open Road Films USA. 107 min. Not rated With Danny Trejo, Michelle Rodriguez, Sofia Vergara, Amber Heard, Antonio Banderas, Cuba […]

Directed by Katie Graham & Andrew Matthews Produced by Thomas Fernandes, Ezra Venetos Written by Matthews Released by Tribeca Film USA. 86 min. Not rated With Sam Eidson, Anne Gee Byrd, Brock England, Garrett Graham, Cyndi William, Vincent James Prendergast, Dakin Matthews & Katie Folger Zero Charisma could be described as the geek version of Big Fan. […]

Directed by Ron Frank & Mevlut Akkaya Produced by Lawrence Richards, Frank & Akkaya Written by Richards Released by International Film Circuit USA. 76 min. Not Rated When Comedy Went to School sometimes rises above schmaltzy nostalgia to become an informative and entertaining history of the stand-up comic. What makes it worth watching are the […]

Written & Directed by Lake Bell Produced by Bell & Jett Steiger Released by Roadside Attractions USA. 93 min. Rated R With Lake Bell, Fred Melamed, Demetri Martin, Michaela Watkins, Ken Marino, Rob Corddry, Nick Offerman, Tig Notaro, Alexandra Holden & Eva Longoria In A World… poses a very intriguing concept. On the peripheries of […]

Directed by Matthias Hoene Written by James Moran & Lucas Roche Produced by James Harris Released by Shout Factory UK. 88 min. Not rated With Harry Treadaway, Michelle Ryan, Alan Ford, Ashley Thomas, Honor Blackman, Rasmus Hardiker & Georgia King From years back, you might remember a little movie called Shaun of the Dead, where […]

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 […]

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 […]