Written & Directed by Jeff Nichols Produced by Tyler Davidson & Sophia Lin Released by Sony Pictures Classics USA. 120 min. Rated R With Michael Shannon, Jessica Chastain, Shea Whigham, Tova Stewart, Katy Mixon, Ray McKinnon & Kathy Baker Take Shelter is about as American a film as you’ll see—its hero, an Ohio working-class […]
Directed by Margaret Whitton Produced by Steven Tabakin &Whitton Written by Roger Towne, based on the novel The Loop by Joe Coomer Released by Paladin USA. 98 min. Not Rated With Jackson Hurst, Rachel Nichols, Linda Emond, Buck Henry, Judith Ivey, Phyllis Somerville, Erik Jensen, Matte Osian, Rocco Sisto & Louis Zorich A Bird […]
Directed by John Madden Produced by Matthew Vaughn, Kris Thykier, Eduardo Rossoff & Eitan Evan Written by Vaughn & Jane Goldman & Peter Straughan, based on the film Ha-Hov Released by Focus Features USA. 113 min. Rated R With Helen Mirren, Tom Wilkinson, Ciarán Hinds, Jessica Chastain, Marton Csokas, Sam Worthington & Jesper Christensen Unusually female-centric, The Debt is a […]
Directed by Kevin Macdonald Produced by Liza Marshall Released by YouTube/Ridley Scott & Tony Scott/National Geographic Entertainment USA. 90 min. Rated PG-13 Life in a Day is the anecdote to every reality show you’ve ever seen. A year ago, producer Ridley Scott asked YouTube users to film themselves for a single day, July 24th, and […]
Directed by Cindy Meehl Produced by Julie Goldman Released by Sundance Selects USA. 88 min. Not Rated By the time Buck Brannaman’s mother died at the age of 11, his already abusive father ramped up the level of physical and emotional abuse on Buck and his brother. Fortunately for the boys, they were placed with […]
Directed by Janus Metz, based on an idea by Kasper Torsting Produced by Ronnie Fridthjof & Sara Stockmann Released by Lorber Films Danish with English subtitles Denmark. 100 min. Not Rated Once upon a time we could easily separate ourselves from soldiers of war. What they were doing, the acts they committed in the name […]
Directed by Richard Press Produced by Philip Gefter Released by Zeitgeist Films USA. 84 min. Not Rated Bicycling around Manhattan on his 29th Schwinn—the first 28 were stolen—photographer Bill Cunningham is constantly on the look out for the latest fashion trends. He shrewdly realized some time in the early ’80s that the answer is […]