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Drama

Death of a Superhero

Directed by Ian Fitzgibbon Screenplay by Anthony McCarten, based upon his novel Produced by Michael Garland, Astrid Kahmke & Phillip Kreuzer Released by Tribeca Film, available on Tribeca on Demand Germany/Ireland. 90 min. Not rated With Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Andy Serkis, Aisling Loftus, Michael McElhatton, Sharon Horgan & Jessica Schwarz Before all you fanboys and fangirls […]

Norwegian Wood

Written & Directed by Tran Anh Hung, based on the novel by Haruki Murakami Produced by Shinji Ogawa Released by Soda Pictures/Red Flag Releasing Japanese, with English subtitles. Japan. 133 min. Not rated With Kenichi Matsuyama, Rinko Kikuchi, Kiko Mizuhara, Reika Kirishima, Kengo Kora, Eriko Hatsune & Tetsuji Tamayama (Nagasawa) Eighteen years ago, Tran Anh […]

London River

Directed by Rachid Bouchareb Produced by Bouchareb and Jean Bréhat Written by Bouchareb, Zoé Galeron & Olivier Lorelle Released by Cinema Libre Studio UK/France/Algeria. 90 min. Not Rated In English, French & Arabic with English subtitles With Brenda Blethyn, Sotigui Kouyaté, Sami Bouajila & Roschdy Zem The events of 7/7—the day terrorist attacks struck public […]

Shame

Directed by Steve McQueen Produced by Iain Canning & Emile Sherman Written by Steve McQueen & Abi Morgan Released by Fox Searchlight UK. 99 min. Rated NC-17 With Michael Fassbender, Carey Mulligan, James Badge Dale & Nicole Beharie Earnestly somber, Shame arrives with a lot of baggage, namely an envelope-pushing amount of sex and nudity. (The […]