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Don’t Stop Believin’

Written & Directed by Ramona S. Diaz Produced by Diaz & Capella Fahoome Brogden English & Tagalog with English subtitles Released by Cinedigm Entertainment USA. 105 min. Not rated Even if you can’t name off the top of your head hits by the band Journey, as soon as one of their songs cranks up—on Glee, […]

My Amityville Horror

Edited, Written, & Directed by Eric Walter Produced by Andrea Adams, John R. Blythe & Walter Released by IFC Midnight USA. 98 min. Not rated At its heart, My Amityville Horror is about what happens to a normal person put through extraordinary, horrifying, and traumatic experiences, and how he comes out on the other side. […]

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 […]

Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel

Produced & Directed by Lisa Immordino Vreeland Released by Samuel Goldwyn Films/Epix USA. 86 min. Rated PG-13 “Faction,” the blending of real life and fiction, is the word Diana Vreeland uses to describe the most interesting stories of her extraordinary life. Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel makes note that her sense of history, […]

Radio Unnameable

Directed & Produced by Paul Lovelace & Jessica Wolfson Released by Kino Lorber USA. 87 min. Not rated Radio Unnameable is a fan’s portrait of the counterculture radio personality who helped create free-form radio and turned what was considered a one-way medium into a forerunner of the interactive social media that has now almost passed […]

Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan’s Hope

Directed by Morgan Spurlock Produced by Jeremy Chilnick, Matthew Galkin, Spurlock & Thomas Tull Written by Jeremy Chilnik, Whedon & Spurlock Released by Wrekin Hill Entertainment USA. 88 min. Rated PG-13 With Joss Whedon, Frank Miller, Kevin Smith, Eli Roth, Robert Kirkman, Stan Lee, Harry Knowles, Seth Green and Seth Rogen For the first time […]

Last Days Here

Directed by Don Argott & Demian Fenton Produced by Sheena M. Joyce Released by Sundance Selects USA. 90 min. Not rated Can a doom metal cult hero get out of his parents’ basement and off drugs to finally capitalize on decades of fan fervor? And will anyone else care? Last Days Here follows the life […]

Crazy Horse

Direction, Sound & Editing by Frederick Wiseman Produced by Pierre Olivier Bardet & Wiseman Relealsed by Zipporah Films English & French with English subtitles USA/France. 134 min. Not rated The subjects of Crazy Horse are drop-dead gorgeous, and have their nude bodies caressed by the camera for much of the 134-minute running time. But since […]

John Mellencamp: It’s About You

Directed by Kurt Markus & Ian Markus Produced by Kurt Markus & Maria Markus Written by Kurt Markus Released by MPI Media Group USA. 80 min. Not Rated What becomes a rock ‘n’ roll legend most? Commissioning a film crew to follow him around on tour and recording an album. But John Mellencamp gave the […]