Written & Directed by Andrea Blaugrund NevinsProduced by Cristan ReillyReleased by Oscilloscope LaboratoriesUSA. 99 min. Not ratedWith Jim Lindberg, Flea, Tony Adolescent, Fat Mike, Tony Hawk, Mark Mothersbaugh, Ron Reyes, Tim Mcllrath, Joe Escalante, Mark Hoppus & Lars Fredericksen Fat Mike of the band NOFX sprays fake butter on his daughter’s toast, Mark Hoppus of […]

Don’t panic if you couldn’t make it the recent New York Film Festival. Most of the films screened have an American distributor lined up and will open in the upcoming months, like the acclaimed A Separation and The Kid on the Bike. The claustrophobic cacophony Carnage, which opened the event, will be released on December […]

Directed by Roland Legiardi-Laura, Edwin Martinez, Deborah Shaffer & Amy Sultan Produced by Legiardi-Laura, Martinez, Shaffer, Sultan, Jill & Jim Angelo Released by Dialogue Pictures USA. 87min. Not rated Three poetry teachers—Amy Sultan, Joe Ubiles, and Roland Legiardi-Laura—have led a “radical poetry” workshop they call Power Writing at University Heights High School in the Bronx […]

Directed by Alma Har’el Produced by Har’el & Boaz Yakin Released by Boaz Yakin Presents USA. 80 min. Not Rated Director Alma Har’el takes a rambling tour of the human fauna in a Sonoran Desert ghost town at the southeastern tip of California. Over the course of a year, she uses several different visual techniques […]

Produced & Directed by Steve Mims & Joe Bailey Jr. Released by Truly Indie/Yokel USA. 102 min. Not rated A courtroom truism is when the facts are against you, argue the law, when the law is against you, argue the facts. But when a documentary about injustice piles on the facts, it still needs to […]

Directed by Joe Berlinger and Bruce SinofskyProduced by BerlingerReleased by HBO Documentary FilmsUSA. 121 min. Not rated For over 18 years, directors Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky inspired diligent and dedicated support to get three teenagers convicted of the horrible 1993 murders of three eight-year-old boys in West Memphis, Arkansas, out of jail, including one […]

Directed by Danfung Dennis Produced by Mike Lerner & Martin Herring Released by Docurama Films Pashtu & English with English subtitles USA. 88 min Not rated Accomplished photojournalist Danfung Dennis spends time behind enemy lines in Afghanistan tracking Echo Company, an outfit of the U.S. Marine corps assigned to a reconnaissance mission moving deep into […]

For the last three years, the New York Film Festival has showcased international television mini-series that not only have creative and production values worthy of the big screen, but are not yet available on American television, even though media boundaries these days are so permeable. Dreileben will particularly appeal to fans of dark mysteries for […]

Directed by Vanessa Roth Produced by Nínive Calegari, Dave Eggers, & Roth Based on the book Teachers Have It Easy: The Big Sacrifices and Small Salaries of America’s Teachers by Calegari, Eggers & Daniel Moulthrop Released by First Run Features USA. 81 min. Not Rated American Teacher aims to improve the image of those who […]