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A Royal Affair

Directed by Nikolaj Arcel Produced by Louise Vesth, Sisse Graum Jorgensen & Meta Foldager Written by Rasmus Heisterberg & Arcel Released by Magnolia Pictures. Danish with English subtitles Denmark. 137 min. Rated R With Mads Mikkelsen, Alicia Vikander, Mikkel Boe Folsgaard & David Dencik Nikolaj Arcel, having co-written the first film version of The Girl […]

Starlet

Directed by Sean Baker Produced by Blake Ashman Kipervaser Written by Baker & Chris Bergoch Released by Music Box Films USA. 104 Min. Not rated With Dree Hemingway, Besedka Johnson, Stella Maeve, James Ransone & Karren Karagulian The fringe of Hollywood’s Walk of Fame attracts all kinds of get-rich-quick dreamers and schemers, now and in […]

The Other Son

Directed by Lorraine Lévy Produced by Virginie Lacombe & Raphael Berdugo Written by Nathalie Saugeon, Lévy & Noam Fitoussi Released by Cohen Media Group France. 105 min. Rated PG-13 English, French, Hebrew & Arabic with English subtitles With Emmanuelle Devos, Pascal Elbé, Jules Sitruk, Mehdi Dehbi, Areen Omari, Khalifa Natour, Mahmood Shalabi & Bruno Podalydès […]

Pusher

Directed by Luis Prieto Produced by Christopher Simon, Felix Vossen & Ruper Preston Written by Matthew Read, from the original screenplay Pusher by Nicolas Winding Refn Released by Radius TWC UK. 87 min. Rated R With Richard Coyle, Agyness Deyn, Bronson Webb & Zlatko Buric Frank (Richard Coyle) is too thoughtful, and maybe too fallible, […]

The Flat

Directed and Written by Arnon Goldfinger Produced by Goldfinger & Thomas Kufus Released by Sundance Selects Hebrew, English & German with English subtitles Israel/Germany. 97 min. Not rated The Flat starts as an ordinary family gathering, the type familiar to many of us, and turns into an extraordinary story. Director Arnon Goldfinger, a humanistic and […]

My Worst Nightmare

Directed by Anne Fontaine Produced by Francis Boespflug, Philippe Carcassonne, Bruno Pesery & Jérôme Seydoux Written by Fontaine & Nicholas Mercier Released by Strand Releasing French with English subtitles France. 103 min. Not rated With Isabelle Huppert, Benoît Poelvoorde, André Dussollier & Virginie Efira Anne Fontaine has had a curious career. The French director has […]

Seven Psychopaths

Written & Directed by Martin McDonaugh Produced by produced by McDonagh, Graham Broadbent and Pete Czernin Released by CBS Films Rated R.  UK. 109 Min With Colin Farrell, Sam Rockwell, Woody Harrelson, Christopher Walken, Abbie Cornish, Gabourey Sidibe, Olga Kurylenko, Harry Dean Stanton & Tom Waits A real treat has been watching Martin McDonaugh transition […]

The Paperboy

Directed by Lee Daniels Produced by Hilary Shor, Daniels, Avi Lerner, Ed Cathell III & Cassian Elwes Written by Pete Dexter & Daniels, based on the novel by Dexter Released by Millennium Films USA. 106 min. Rated R With Matthew McConaughey, Zac Efron, David Oyelowo, Macy Gray, John Cusack, Nealla Gordon, Scott Glenn & Nicole […]

Solomon Kane

Written & Directed by Michael J. Bassett, based on the character created by Robert E. Howard Produced by Paul Berrow, Samuel Hadida & Kevan Van Thompson Released by Radius/TWC France/Czech Republic/UK. 104 min. Rated R With James Purefoy, Max von Sydow, Pete Postlethwaite, Rachel Hurd-Wood, Patrick Hurd-Wood, Alice Krige, Jason Flemyng & Lucas Stone Solomon […]