Written & Directed by Mathieu Roy & Harold Crooks, based on the book A Short History of Progress by Ronald Wright Produced by Daniel Louis & Denise Robert Released by First Run Features Canada. 86 min. Not rated Mathieu Roy and Harold Crooks’ film beautifully pieces together bits of history into an overarching discussion about […]
Written & Directed by Michael R. Roskam Produced by Bart Van Langendonck, Peter Bouckaert, Patrick Quinet & Jan Van der Zanden Released by Drafthouse Films Flemish & French with English subtitles Belgium. 126 min. Rated R With Matthias Schoenaerts, Jeroen Perceval, Barbara Sarafian, Jeanne Dandoy, Tibo & Sam Louwyck Bullhead must have been one hell […]
Directed by Lee Hirsch Written & Produced by Hirsch & Cynthia Lowen Released by the Weinstein Company USA. 98 min. Not Rated Bully goes to the frontlines of the war on middle and high school kids who don’t fit in. The embedded filmmakers expose the battles they and their families face, survive, or, even worse, […]
Directed by Jon Shenk Produced by Richard Berge & Bonni Cohen Released by Samuel Goldwyn Films English & Dhievi with English subtitles USA. 101 min. Rated PG The Island President makes climate change dramatic, political, personal, and the right stuff of leadership. The imminent future of the 400,000 people who live on the beautiful islands […]
Edited, Written & Directed by Gareth Huw Evans Produced by Ario Sagantoro Released by Sony Pictures Classics Indonesian with English subtitles Indonesia/USA. 100 min. Rated R With Iko Uwais, Joe Taslim, Doni Alamsyah, Yayan Ruhian, Pierre Gruno, Ray Sahetapy, Tegar Satrya, Iang Darmawan, Eka Rahmadia & Verdi Solaiman The stupefying, pulpy excess of Gareth Huw Evans’s […]
Written & Directed by Lionel Rogosin, in collaboration with Richard Bagley & Mark Sufrin Produced by Rogosin Released by Milestone Films USA. 67 min. Not Rated With Ray Salyer, Gorman Hendricks & Frank Matthews DVD Special Features: Introduction by Martin Scorsese. “The Perfect Team: The Making of On the Bowery, directed by Michael Rogosin. “A […]
Written & Directed by Taika Waititi Produced by Ainsley Gardiner, Cliff Curtis & Emanuel Michael Released by Paladin New Zealand. 90 min. Not Rated With James Rolleston, Te Aho Eketone-Whitu & Waititi Boy gives delightful new meaning to “It takes a whole village to raise a child” by nostalgically going back to an isolated community […]
Directed by Ola Simonsson & Johannes Stjarne Nilsson Produced by Jim Birmant, Guy Péchard, Christophe Audeguis & Olivier Guerpillon Written by Simonsson & Nilsson, story by Simonsson, Nilsson & Birmant Released by Magnolia Pictures Sweden/France. 102 min. Rated R Swedish with English subtitles With Bengt Nilsson, Sanna Persson Halapi, Magnus Borjeson, Johannes Bjork, Fredrik Myhr, […]
Directed by Jiang Wen Produced by Ma Ke, Albert Lee, Barbie Tung,Yin Homber Yin & Zhao Haicheng Written by Zhu Sujin, Shu Ping, Jiang Wen, Guo Junli, Wei Xiao & Li Bukong, based on novel Ye Tan Shi Ji by Ma Shitu Released by Well Go USA/Variance Films Mandarin with English subtitles China/Hong Kong. 132 […]