Produced & Directed by Charles Evans Jr. Released by Variance Films USA. 102 min. Rated PG-13 The current demonization of Wall Street may have helped trigger the current protest movement, but there’s an even more hated entity in the minds of most Americans: Big Tobacco. Cigarette companies are the most egregious example of corporate greed […]
Directed by Tomas Alfredson Written by Bridget O’Connor & Peter Straughan, based on the novel by John Le Carré Produced by Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner & Robyn Slovo Released by Focus Features. UK/France/Germany. 128 min. Rated R With Gary Oldman, Kathy Burke, Benedict Cumberbatch, David Dencik, Colin Firth, Stephen Graham, Tom Hardy, Ciaran Hinds, John […]
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 […]
Shot, Produced & Directed by Ian Palmer Released by Arc Entertainment Ireland. 97 min. Rated R From the poster for Knuckle, one might get the impression that this is another underdog drama like The Fighter or Warrior. Not so. This is a documentary and is not about underdogs, per se. It’s about blue-collar Irish […]
Written & Directed by Takeshi Kitano Produced by Masayuki Mori & Takio Yoshida Released by Magnet Releasing Japanese with English subtitles Japan. 109 min. Rated R With Beat Takeshi, Kippei Shiina, Ryo Kase, Tomokazu Miura, Jun Kunimura, Renji Ishibashi & Tetta Sugimoto The bleakly funny Japanese gangster drama Outrage came out in its home country […]
Written & Directed by Julia Leigh Produced by Jessica Brentnall Released by IFC Films/Video On Demand Australia. 101 min. Not Rated With Emily Browning, Rachael Blake, Ewen Leslie, Peter Carroll & Chris Haywood In the same year that Catherine Breillat reinterpreted The Sleeping Beauty as a model fairy tale for feminist girls, Australian novelist and […]
Directed & Written by Martyn Burke Produced by Burke & Anthony Feinstein Released by Mercury Media Entertainment Canada. 90 min. Not Rated Director Martyn Burke interviews nine gutsy men and women who make possible the claim that “The whole world is watching” and reveals the personal cost of bringing first-hand information of conflict and war […]
Directed by Marius Holst Produced by Karin Julsrud, Antoine de Clermont-Tonnerre, Ewa Puszczynska, Mathilde Dedye & Johannes Ahlund Written by Dennis Magnusson Released by Film Movement Norwegian with English subtitles Norway/France/Sweden/Poland. 115 min. Not rated With Stellan Skarsgard, Benjamin Helstad, Kirstoffer Joner, Trond Nilssen, Ellen Dorrit Petersen & Magnus Langlete There is no way that […]
Produced & Directed by Edmon Roch Written by Roch, Isaki Lacuesta & María Hervera Released by First Run Features English, Spanish, Catalan & German with English subtitles Spain. 87 min. Not rated Greta Garbo, Leslie Howard, George C. Scott, and George Sanders: this thriller-cum-documentary offers the biggest cast of stars this year. The liberal excerpts […]