Directed by Goro Miyazaki, English-language production directed by Gary Rydstrom Produced by Toshio Suzuki Written by Hayao Miyazaki, based on the serialized manga by Chizuru Takahashi & Tetsuro Sayama Released by GKIDS Japan. 91 min. Rated PG With the voices of Gillian Anderson, Sarah Bolger, Beau Bridges, Jamie Lee Curtis, Bruce Dern, Isabelle Fuhrman, Christina Hendricks, […]

Directed by Ulrich SeidlProduced by Ulrich Seidl Film Produktion Written by Veronika Franz & Ulrich Seidl Released by Strand Releasing German & Arabic with English subtitles Austria/France,/Germany, 113 min.  Not rated With Maria Hofstätten & Nabil Saleh Ulrich Seidl’s “Paradise Trilogy” was originally conceived as a single film of interwoven stories following three female family […]

Written & Directed by David Lowery Produced by Lars Knudsen, Jay Van Hoy, James M. Johnston, Toby Halbrooks, Cassian Elwes & Amy Kaufman Released by IFC Films USA. 105 min. Not rated With Rooney Mara, Casey Affleck, Ben Foster, Keith Carradine & Nate Parker It takes a filmmaker with strong courage to make what on […]

Directed by Jason Lapeyre & Robert Wilson Produced by Lewin Webb Written by Jason Lapeyre Released by Drafthouse Films Canada. 93 min. Not rated With Siam Yu, Gage Monroe, Michael Friend, Aidan Gouveia, Mackenzie Munro, Alex Cardillo, Dyson Fyke, Spencer, Andy Reid, Kolton Stewart, Richard Nguyen, Eric Hanson, Alex Wall Mixed with the themes of […]

Directed by Rob Epstein & Jeffrey Friedman Produced by Heidi Jo Markel, Laura Rister, Jason Weinberg, and Jim Young Written by Andy Bellin Released by Radius TWC USA. 92 min. Rated R With Amanda Seyfried, Peter Sarsgaard, Hank Azaria, Wes Bentley, Adam Brody, Bobby Cannavale, James Franco, Debi Mazar, Chris Noth, Robert Patrick, Eric Roberts, […]

Directed by Havana Marking Produced by Mike Lerner Released by Doppelgänger Releasing UK. 90 min. Not rated Wow. Talk about free publicity. The July 28th robbery of an estimated $137 million worth of jewelry on the French Riviera (at the Carlton International hotel, coincidentally a location in Hitchcock’s To Catch a Thief) occurred just days […]

Written, Produced & Directed by Stephan Schesch, based on the picture book by Tomi Ungerer Released by Tribeca Film France/German/Ireland. 96 min. Not rated More than four decades after the 1966 publication of Moon Man, a children’s tale by author/illustrator Tomi Ungerer, Stephan Schesch brings this simple story to life through animation. Maintaining the simplicity […]

Written & Directed by Andrew Bujalski Produced by Houston King & Alex Lipschultz Released by Kino Lorber USA. 92 min. Not rated With Patrick Riester, Wiley Wiggins, Myles Paige, Robin Schwartz & Gerald Peary If being unique and outside of the box were all that Computer Chess had going for it, it wouldn’t have been […]

Written & Directed by Nicolas Winding Refn Produced  by Refn, Lene Borglum, Sidonie Dumas & Vincent Maraval Released by Radius/TWC France/Thailand/USA/Sweden. 90 min. Rated R (what else?) With Ryan Gosling, Kristin Scott Thomas, Vithaya Pansringarm, Tom Burke, Rhatha Phongam & Gordon Brown In the seedy underbelly of Bangkok, Billy (Tom Burke), a calm but salacious […]