Written & Directed by Shane Carruth Produced by Carruth, Casey Gooden & Ben LeClair Released by erbp Film USA. 96 min. Not rated With Amy Seimetz, Shane Carruth, Andrew Sensenig, Thiago Martins, Kathy Carruth & Meredith Burke Wunderkind Shane Carruth—he writes, directs, stars, produces, edits, photographs, and composes the music for his films—returns from a […]
Directed by Gilles Bourdos Produced by Olivier Delbosc & Marc Missonnier Written by Jérôme Tonnerre & Bourdos, with the contribution of Michel Spinosa, based on the book Le Tableau Amoureux by Jacques Renoir Released by Samuel Goldwyn Films France. 111 min. Rated R French with English subtitles With Michel Bouquet, Vincent Rottiers, Christa Théret, Thomas […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
Directed by Park Chan-wook Written by Wentworth Miller Produced by Ridley Scott, Tony Scott, Bergen Swanson & Michael Costigan Released by Fox Searchlight USA. 98 min. Rated R With Mia Wasikowska, Matthew Goode, Nicole Kidman, Jacki Weaver, Phyllis Somerville & Harmony Korine Stoker starts right off steeped in tragedy—an upper-middle class woman, Evelyn Stoker (Nicole […]
Written & Directed by Jenny Deller Produced by Deller & Kristin Fairweather Released by Lipstick Pictures USA 100 min. Not rated With Perla Haney-Jardine, Amy Madigan, Lili Taylor, Marin Ireland, William Sadler, Anubhav Jain, Jenny Dare Paulin & Michael Porter Future Weather is a quiet film that deals with very major themes, both emotional and […]
Directed by Lori Silverbush & Kristi Jacobsen Produced by Silverbush, Jacobsen, Julie Goldman & Ryan Harrington Released by Magnolia Pictures USA. 84 min. Rated PG A Place at the Table updates the galvanizing 1968 TV documentary Hunger in America in a rambling grab bag overview, but makes convincing links to the causes of the much […]