Written & Directed by Eran Creevy Produced by Rory Aitken & Ben Pugh Released by IFC Films UK. 99 min. Not rated With James McAvoy, Mark Strong, Andrea Riseborough, Peter Mullan, David Morrissey, Jason Flemyng & Ruth Sheen Welcome to the Punch is British director Eran Creevy’s follow up to his award-winning debut Shifty (2008), about […]
Directed by Sally El Hosaini Produced by Gayle Griffiths, Julia Godzinskaya & Michael Sackler Written by El Hosaini & Aymen Hamdouchi Released by Paladin UK. 111 min. Not Rated With James Floyd, Fady Elsayed & Saïd Taghmaoui At the 2012 BFI London Film Festival, My Brother the Devil scooped Best British Newcomer Award for Welsh-Egyptian […]
Directed by Megan Griffiths Produced by Colin Harper Plank and Jacob Mosler Written by Richard B. Phillips & Griffiths, story by Phillips & Chong Kim Released by Phase 4 Films USA. 98 min. Rated R With Jamie Chung, Beau Bridges, Matt O’Leary, Tantoo Cardinal, Jeanine Monterroza & Scott Mechlowicz Hyun Jae (Jamie Chung) is just […]
Written & Directed by David Riker Produced by Paul Mezey Released by Brainstorm Media USA. 94 min. Not rated With Abbie Cornish, Will Patton & Maritza Santiago Hernández Reminiscent of 2008’s Frozen River, another film about a financially floundering single mother taking up human trafficking, The Girl examines issues of illegal immigration and economic class […]
Written and Directed by Gregory Marquette Produced by Walter T. Shaw Released by Freestyle Releasing Rated PG. 92 Minutes Philosopher Daniel C. Dennett once said, “There’s nothing I like less then bad arguments for a view I hold dear.” The same sort of logic can be applied to filmmakers, and documentarians, for sure. It’s not […]
Written & Directed by Paolo & Vittorio Taviani Director of the theater scenes & screenplay collaboration by Fabio Cavalli Produced by Grazia Volpi Released by Adopt Films Italian with English subtitles Italy. 76 min. Not rated With Cosimo Rega, Salvatore Striano, Giovanni Arcuri & Antonio Frasca Paolo and Vittorio Taviani’s latest film, a spry, lean, […]
Directed by Amy Berg Produced by Berg, Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh, Damien Echols & Lorri Davis Written by Berg & Billy McMillin Released by Sony Pictures Classics New Zealand/USA. 147 min. Rated R West of Memphis is a triumphant story of justice finally prevailing for three innocent men who spent 18 years in jail for […]
Directed by Marcel Rasquin Written by Rohan Jones & Rasquin Produced by Enrique Aular, Juan Antonio Díaz & Rasquin Released by Music Box Films Spanish with English subtitles Venezuela. 97 min. Not rated With Fernando Moreno, Eliú Armas, Alí Rondon, Beto Benites, Gonzalo Cubero & Marcela Girón Venezuela’s 2010 selection for the Best Foreign Language […]
Directed by Stefan Ruzowitzky Produced by Shelly Clippard, Ben Cosgrove, Gary Levinsohn & Todd Wagner Written by Zach Dean Released by Magnolia Pictures USA. 95 min. Rated R With Eric Bana, Olivia Wilde, Charlie Hunnam, Kris Kristofferson, Sissy Spacek, Kate Mara & Treat Williams Eric Bana and Olivia Wilde play brother and sister, Addison and […]