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Computer Chess

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 […]

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 […]