Directed by James Franco & Travis Mathews Produced by James Franco, Vince Jolivette, Travis Mathews, Iris Torres & Keith Wilson. Written by Mathews USA. 60 min. Not rated With Val Lauren, James Franco, Travis Mathews, Christian Patrick, Brenden Gregory, Brad Roberge, Colin Chavez, A.J. Goodrich, Michael Lannan Filmmakers James Franco and Travis Mathews collaborate to […]
Directed by Sophie Huber Produced by Christian Davi, Chiemi Karasawa, Christof Neracher, Thomas Thümena Released by Adopt Films Switzerland. 77 min. Not rated With Harry Dean Stanton, David Lynch, Deborah Harry, Win Wenders, Sam Shepard & Kris Kristofferson Roger Ebert once noted that no film with character actor Harry Dean Stanton could be all that […]
Directed by Fernando Trueba Produced by Cristina Huete Written by Jean-Claude Carrière & Trueba French with English subtitles Released by Cohen Media Group. Spain/France. 105 min. Not rated With Jean Rochefort, Aida Folch, Claudia Cardinale, Götz Otto, Chus Lampreave, Martin Gamet & Christian Sinniger Even if you’re not great with names, you’ll recognize 83-year-old actor […]
Written & Directed by Peter Strickland Produced by Keith Griffiths, Mary Burke Released by IFC Films UK. 92 min. Not rated With Toby Jones, Cosimo Fusco, Antonio Mancino & Tonia Sotiropoulou Peter Strickland’s second feature is an inventive homage to the art of analogue sound and the power of the medium. Sometime in the 1970s, […]
Written & Directed by Xan Cassavetes Produced by Jen Gatien & Alex Orlovsky Released by Magnet Releasing USA. 97 min. Rated R With Joséphine de la Baume, Milo Ventimiglia, Roxane Mesquida, Anna Mouglalis, Michael Rapaport, Riley Keough, Ching Valdes-Aran & Jay Brannan Can you remember back when vampires were simple, bloodsucking creatures? Before they counted […]
Directed by Rodney Ascher Produced by Tim Kirk Released by IFC Films USA. 102 min. Not rated You’ve all seen The Shining, haven’t you? Stanley Kubrick’s seminal 1980 horror film gave Jack Nicholson a role (or an entire hotel) to chew on while Shelley Duvall ran around frantically, followed by a newly-created Steadicam. (It was […]
Written & Directed by Pablo Berger Produced by Ibon Cormenzana, Jérôme Vidal & Berger Released by Cohen Media Group Spanish with English subtitles Spain. 104 min. Rated PG-13 With Macarena García, Maribel Verdú, Sofía Oria & Ángela Molina Director Pablo Berger’s Blancanieves is a Spanish Snow White that’s more The Artist than Mirror Mirror. It’s […]
With so many end-of-the-year releases garnering awards and nominations, you might ask the various selection committees and critics groups, “Where have you been?” Going over their 10 best lists, some overlap is inevitable, but it’s as if they have had amnesia for 10 months, overlooking many films released before November. And if you had a […]
Directed by Sacha Gervasi Produced by Alan Barnette, Joe Medjuck, Tom Pollock, Ivan Reitman & Tom Thayer Written by John G. McLaughlin, based on the book Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho by Stephen Rebello Released by Fox Searchlight Pictures USA. 98 min. Rated PG-13 With Anthony Hopkins, Helen Mirren, Scarlett Johansson, Jessica Biel, […]