Written & Directed by Craig Zobel Produced by Sophia Lin, Lisa Muskat, Tyler Davidson, Theo Sena & Zobel Released by Magnolia Pictures. USA. 90 min. Rated R With Ann Dowd, Dreama Walker, Pat Healy, Bill Camp, Philip Ettinger & James McCaffrey Go see Compliance. Why? Because I told you to. If you still think that […]
Written & Directed by Nicholas McCarthy Produced by Ross Dinerstein Released by IFC Films USA. 90 min. Rated R. With Caity Lotz, Casper Van Dien, Agnes Bruckner & Haley Hudson Okay, let’s get the plot out of the way. After her mother passes away, Annie (Caity Lotz) returns to the family home where she was […]
The Tribeca Film Festival offers such a wide array of films from all over the world that some many get passed by amid the list of so-much-to-see-ooh-I-want-to-see-that. With that in mind, here are some notable titles. Francophrenia (or: Don’t Kill Me, I Know Where the Baby Is) This is, to my knowledge, one of the […]
Directed by Drew Goddard Produced by Joss Whedon Written by Whedon & Goddard Released by Lionsgate USA. 95 min. Rated R With Kristen Connolly, Chris Hemsworth, Anna Hutchison, Fran Kranz, Jesse Williams, Richard Jenkins & Bradley Whitford Joss Whedon’s big Happy Meal tie-in extravaganza The Avengers will make a lot more money, but The Cabin […]
Directed by Morgan Spurlock Produced by Jeremy Chilnick, Matthew Galkin, Spurlock & Thomas Tull Written by Jeremy Chilnik, Whedon & Spurlock Released by Wrekin Hill Entertainment USA. 88 min. Rated PG-13 With Joss Whedon, Frank Miller, Kevin Smith, Eli Roth, Robert Kirkman, Stan Lee, Harry Knowles, Seth Green and Seth Rogen For the first time […]
Too Weird, Too Wonderful: Home Video Releases You Won’t Want To Miss Battle Royale: The Complete Collection With all the renewed attention that Kinji Fukasaku’s 2000 cult hit has received during the run-up to, and the aftermath of, The Hunger Games release, it’s no surprise that a new home video release has appeared on the […]
The DVD and Blu-ray release earlier this month of Pedro Almodóvar’s The Skin I Live In is probably causing few ripples in the perennial, if quietly implicit, debate on the merits of the highbrow vs. lowbrow culture. In fact, I’d guess that it’s stirred up little concern on this front except among folks like […]
Edited, Written & Directed by Aharon Keshales & Navot Papushado Produced by Chilik Michaeli, Avraham Pirchi Tami Leon & Julia Schifter Hebrew with English subtitles Released by Image Entertainment Israel. 94 min. Not rated With Lior Ashkenazi, Ania Bukstein, Danny Geva, Yael Grobglas, Henry David, Ran Danker, Liat Har Lev, Yaron Motola, Menashe Noy & […]
Directed by Xavier Gens Produced by Ross M. Dinerstein, Juliette Hagopian, Nathaniel Rollo & Darryn Welch Written by Karl Mueller & Eron Sheean Released by Anchor Bay Films Germany/USA/Canada. 122 min. Not rated With Lauren German, Michael Biehn, Milo Ventimiglia, Courtney B. Vance, Iván González, Michael Eklund & Rosanna Arquette Like nothing so much as […]