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Our Children

Directed by Joachim Lafosse Produced by Jacques-Henri & Olivier Bronckart, Jani Thiltges, Sylvie Pialat & Thierry Spicher Written by Thomas Bidegain, Lafosse & Matthieu Reynaert Released by Distrib Films Belgium. 111 min. Not Rated French & Arabic with English subtitles With Tahar Rahim, Émilie Dequenne, Niels Arestrup, Baya Belal, Mounia Raoui & Redouane Behache Our […]

Cockneys vs. Zombies

Directed by Matthias Hoene Written by James Moran & Lucas Roche Produced by James Harris Released by Shout Factory UK. 88 min. Not rated With Harry Treadaway, Michelle Ryan, Alan Ford, Ashley Thomas, Honor Blackman, Rasmus Hardiker & Georgia King From years back, you might remember a little movie called Shaun of the Dead, where […]

Wasteland

Written & Directed by Rowan Athale Produced by Ed Barratt, Mark Foligno, Gareth Pritchard Released by Oscilloscope Laboratories UK. 106 min. Not rated With Luke Treadaway, Timothy Spall, Matthew Lewis, Iwan Rheon, Vanessa Kirby, Neil Maskell & Gerard Kearns British director Rowan Athale’s feature debut opens in the gloomy confines of a police station, where battered […]

Broken

Directed by Rufus Norris Written by Mark O’Rowe, based on the novel by Daniel Clay Produced by Dixie Linder, Tally Garner, Nick Marston & Bill Kenwright Released by Film Movement UK. 90 min. Not rated With Tim Roth, Eloise Laurence, Cillian Murphy, Zana Marjanovic, Robert Emms, Faye Daveney, Rosalie Kosky-Hensman, Martha Bryant, Bill Milner & […]

Bhaag Milkha Bhaag

Directed & Produced by Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra Written by Prasoon Joshi Released by Reliance Entertainment Hindi with English subtitles India. 188 min. Not rated With Farhan Akhtar, Sonam Kapoor, Dalip Tahil, Art Malik, Divya Dutta, Jabtej Singh, Pavan Malhotra, Yograj Singh, Rebecca Breeds & Prakash Raj Bhaag Milkha Bhaag translates as “Run Milkha Run,” and […]

Still Mine

Written & Directed by Michael McGowan Produced by McGowan, Avi Federgreen, Jody Colero & Tamara Deverell Released by Samuel Goldwyn Films Canada. 103 min. Rated PG-13 With James Cromwell, Geneviève Bujold, Rick Roberts, Campbell Scott, Julie Stewart, Jonathan Potts, Zachary Bennett, & George R. Robertson Still Mine is a lovely tribute to traditional family values […]

The Hunt

Directed by Thomas Vinterberg Written by Vinterberg & Tobias Lindholm Produced by Morten Kaufmann & Sisse Graum Jorgensen Released by Magnolia Pictures Danish with English subtitles Denmark/Sweden. 111 min. Rated R With Mads Mikkelsen, Thomas Bo Larsen, Annika Wedderkopp, Lasse Fogelstrom, Susse Wold, Anne Louise Hassing, Lars Ranthe & Alexandra Rapaport Thomas Vinterberg’s latest is […]

More Cannes Winners

Perhaps the two main stories that emerged from this year’s Cannes Film Festival were the jewelry heists (who knew Brian De Palma’s Femme Fatale was so prescient?) and the praise and immediate backlash heaped on the Palm d’Or winner Blue Is the Warmest Color, namely Elaine Sciolino’s piece in the New York Times in which […]

The Look of Love

Directed by Michael Winterbottom Produced by Melissa Parmenter Written by Matt Greenhalgh Released by IFC Films UK/USA. 107 min.  Not rated (definitely would be rated R) With Steve Coogan, Imogen Poots, Anna Friel, Tamsin Egerton & Chris Addison After an eclectic career that covers art house, neo-noir, docudrama, and comedy, prolific director Michael Winterbottom brings […]