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Only God Forgives

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 […]

The Way Way Back

Written & Directed by Nat Faxon & Jim Rash Produced by Kevin J. Walsh & Tom Rice Released by Fox Searchlight USA. 103 min. Rated PG-13 With Steve Carell, Toni Collette, Allison Janney, AnnaSophia Robb, Sam Rockwell, Maya Rudolph & Liam James It isn’t a secret by now that screenwriters Nat Faxon and Jim Rash […]

Byzantium

Directed by Neil Jordan Written by Moira Buffini, based on her play A Vampire Story Produced by Stephen Woolley, Alan Moloney, Elizabeth Karlsen, William D. Johnson & Samuel Englebardt Released by IFC Films UK/USA/Ireland. 118 min. Rated R With Gemma Arterton, Saoirse Ronan, Sam Riley, Jonny Lee Miller, Daniel Mays & Caleb Landry Jones Eleanor […]

Some Girl(s)

Directed by Daisy von Scherler Mayer Produced by Patty West, Chris Schwartz & Andrew Carlberg Written by Neil LaBute, based on his play Released by Leeden Media USA. 84 min. Not rated With Adam Brody, Kristen Bell, Zoe Kazan, Mía Maestro, Jennifer Morrison & Emily Watson In Some Girl(s), Adam Brody plays a nameless man […]

A Hijacking

Written & Directed by Tobias Lindholm Produced by Tomas Radoor & René Ezra Released by Magnolia Pictures English, Somali & Danish with English subtitles Denmark. 99 min. Not rated With Pilou Asbaek, Soren Malling, Dar Salim, Roland Moller, Gary Skjoldmose Porter & Abdihakin Asgar Tobias Lindholm’s tense, compelling drama A Hijacking is often as stark […]

Before Midnight

Directed by Richard Linklater Written by Linklater, Ethan Hawke & Julie Delpy Produced by Linklater, Christos V. Konstantakopoulos & Sara Woodhatch Released by Sony Pictures Classics USA. 108 min. Rated R With Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy, Ariane Labed, Athina Rachel Tsangari, Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick, Walter Lassally & Xenia Kalogeropoulou In Before Midnight, time has moved on […]

The Kings of Summer

Directed by Jordan Vogt-Roberts Produced by Tyler Davidson, Peter Saraf & John Hodges Written by Chris Galletta Released by CBS Films USA. 95 min. Rated R With Nick Robinson, Gabriel Basso, Moises Arias, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Marc Evan Jackson, Erin Moriarty, Alison Brie & Mary Lynn Rajskub The Kings of Summer open with a […]

Sightseers

Directed by Ben Wheatley Produced by Nira Park, Claire Jones & Andy Starke Written by Alice Lowe & Steve Oram Released by IFC Films UK. 88 min. Not rated With Alice Lowe, Steve Oram & Eileen Davies After a career directing TV, Ben Wheatley made his first feature Down Terrace (2009), an understated comedy about a […]

The Angels’ Share

Directed by Ken Loach Produced by Rebecca O’Brien Written by Paul Laverty Released by Sundance Selects UK.  101 min.  Not rated With Paul Brannigan, John Henshaw, Roger Allam, Gary Maitland, Jasmin Riggins, William Ruane & Siobhan Reilly The Angel’s Share reunites Ken Loach with his longtime collaborator, Scottish screenwriter Paul Laverty, for their 10th film, […]