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, […]
Written & Directed by Todd Berger Produced by Kevin M. Brennan, Jeff Grace, Gordon Bijelonic & Datari Turner Released by Oscilloscope Laboratories USA. 88 min. Not rated With Julia Stiles, David Cross, America Ferrera, Erinn Hayes, Jeff Grace, Rachel Boston & Kevin M. Brennan It’s a Disaster is structured around a clever conceit: tensions at […]
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 […]