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Comedy

Sightseers

Directed by Ben Wheatley Produced by Nira Park, Claire Jones & Andy Starke Written by Alice Lowe & Steve Oram Released by IFC Films UK. 88 min. Not rated With Alice Lowe, Steve Oram & Eileen Davies After a career directing TV, Ben Wheatley made his first feature Down Terrace (2009), an understated comedy about a […]

The Angels’ Share

Directed by Ken Loach Produced by Rebecca O’Brien Written by Paul Laverty Released by Sundance Selects UK.  101 min.  Not rated With Paul Brannigan, John Henshaw, Roger Allam, Gary Maitland, Jasmin Riggins, William Ruane & Siobhan Reilly The Angel’s Share reunites Ken Loach with his longtime collaborator, Scottish screenwriter Paul Laverty, for their 10th film, […]

Somebody Up There Likes Me

Written & Directed by Bob Byington Produced by Stuart Bohart, Hans Graffunder, Christos Konstantakopoulos & Nick Offerman Released by Tribeca Film USA. 76 min. Not rated With Keith Poulson, Nick Offerman, Jess Weixler, Stephanie Hunt, Marshall Bell, Kate Lyn Sheil The opening credits set a peculiar tone, sashaying between animation, one-liners, time jumps, and the […]

Mental

Written & Directed by P.J. Hogan Produced by Janet Zucker, Jerry Zucker, Todd Fellman & Jocelyn Moorhouse Released by Dada Films Australia. 111 min. Not rated With Toni Collette, Liev Schreiber, Anthony LaPaglia, Rebecca Gibney, Kerry Fox & Deborah Mailman Australian director P.J. Hogan reunites with Toni Collette in a knockout comedy that cuts to […]

Starbuck

Directed by Ken Scott Produced by André Rouleau Written by Scott & Martin Petit Released by Entertainment One French with English subtitles. Canada. 109 min. Rated R With Patrick Huard, Julie Le Breton, Antoine Bertrand, Dominic Philie, Marc Bél Anger & Igor Ovadis The high concept for Starbuck sounds like a wild news story or […]

A Liar’s Autobiography

Directed by Bill Jones, Jeff Simpson & Ben Timlett Written by Graham Chapman, David Sherlock, Douglas Addams, David Yallop & Alex Martin, based on the memoirs of Mr. Chapman Released by Epix/Brainstorm Media UK. 82 min. Rated R Featuring the voices of Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Jones, Terry Gilliam and Michael Palin, and with Carole […]

Quartet

Directed by Dustin Hoffman Produced by Finola Dwyer & Stewart Mackinnon Written by Ronald Harwood, based on his play Released by the Weinstein Company UK. 98 min. Rated PG-13 With Maggie Smith, Tom Courtenay, Michael Gambon, Billy Connolly, Gwyneth Jones, Sheridan Smith & Pauline Collins Quartet follows on the recent success of The Best Exotic […]

Django Unchained

Written & Directed by Quentin Tarantino Produced by Stacy Sher, Reginald Hudlin & Pilar Savone Released by the Weinstein Company USA. 165 min. Rated R With Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz, Leonardo DiCaprio, Kerry Washington, Samuel L. Jackson, Don Johnson, Walton Goggins, Jonah Hill, Bruce Dern & Franco Nero A filmmaker’s love for his art can […]

King Kelly

Directed by Andrew Neel Produced by Tom Davis, Luke Meyer, Ethan Palmer & Andrew Corkin Written by Neel & Mike Roberts Released by GoDigital/SeeThink Films USA. 84 min. Not rated With Louisa Krause, Libby Woodbridge, Roderick Hill & Will Brill The outlook on today’s Internet obsessed youth culture is bleak, even terrifying at times, in […]