Directed by Oren Moverman Produced by Lawrence Inglee, Clark Peterson, by Ben Foster & Ken Kao Written by James Ellroy & Moverman Released by Millenium Entertainment USA. 112 min. Rated R With Woody Harrelson, Robin Wright, Cynthia Nixon, Anne Heche, Sigourney Weaver, Ben Foster, Ned Beatty, Steve Buscemi, Ice Cube & Brie Larson A dirty […]

Written & Directed by Tom Tykwer Produced by Stefan Arndt Released by Strand Releasing German with English subtitles Germany. 119 min. Not rated Starring: Sophie Rois, Sebastian Schipper & Devid Striesow It’s hard to put a fresh spin on infidelity dramas nowadays. Yet they are still effective, maybe one of the most shocking and gripping […]

Directed by Ben Wheatley Produced by Claire Jones & Andre Starke Written by Wheatley & Amy Jump Released by Magnolia Pictures UK. 95 min. Not Rated With Neil Maskell, Harry Simpson, MyAnna Buring, Michael Smiley, Emma Fryer & Struan Rodger British director Ben Wheatley’s heady genre mashup Kill List is how midnight movies are supposed […]

Directed by Agnieszka Holland Produced by Steffen Reuter, Patrick Knippel, Marc-Daniel Dichant, Leander Carell, Juliusz Machulski, Paul Stephens & Eric Jordan Written by David F. Shamoon, based on the book In The Sewers of Lvov: A Heroic Story of Survival from the Holocaust by Robert Marshall Released by Sony Pictures Classics Poland/Germany/France/Canada. 143 min. Rated […]

Directed by Bill Morrison Produced by Forma Written by Morrison, Johann Johannsson & David Metcalfe Released by Icarus Films USA/UK. 52 min. Not Rated With Hugo and The Artist reminding audiences of the impact, and neglect, of silent films, comes the timely work of an avant-garde artist who imaginatively re-purposes archival footage in collaborations with […]

Directed & Photographed by Gianfranco Rosi Produced by Serge Lalou & Gianfranco Rosi Original story by Charles Bowden Released by Icarus Films Spanish with English subtitles USA/France. 84 min. Not rated As many great filmmakers know, the suggestion of violence is often more powerful than seeing it. A hint, a moment, or a fragment gives […]

Directed by Steven Soderbergh Produced by Gregory Jacobs & Ryan Kavanaugh Written by Lem Dobbs Released by Relativity Media USA/Ireland. 93 min. Rated R With Gina Carano, Ewan McGregor, Michael Fassbender, Michael Douglas, Channing Tatum, Antonio Banderas & Bill Paxton Whatever its faults, Stephen Soderbergh’s grrl-power, globe-trotting action flick Haywire does one thing very right. […]

Directed by Chad Freidrichs Produced by Chad Freidrichs, Jaime Freidrichs, Paul Fehler & Brian Woodman Written by Chad & Jaime Freidrichs Released by First Run Features USA. 83min. Not Rated The Pruitt-Igoe Myth: An Urban History begins with a shocking image. Not the dramatic, notorious television footage of the 1972 implosion of an 11-story building […]

Written & Directed by Dee Rees Produced by Nekisa Cooper Released by Focus Features USA. 86 min. Rated R With Adepero Oduye, Pernell Walker, Aasha Davis, Charles Parnell, Sahra Mellesse, Kim Wayans & Shamika Cotton Every year another indie could be the last one ever shot on film. But 35mm keeps hanging on, and beautifully […]