Directed by Jim Mickle Written by Mickle & Nick Damici, based on the film We Are What We Are, directed by Jorge Michel Grau Produced by Andrew Corkin, Nicholas Shumaker, Jack Turner & Rodrigo Bellott Released by Entertainment One USA. 104 min. Rated R With Bill Sage, Ambyr Childers, Julia Garner, Wyatt Russell, Kassie DePaiva, […]
Produced & Directed by Nick Ryan Written by Mark Monroe Released by Sundance Selects Ireland/UK/USA/Switzerland. 99 min. Rated R In early August 2008, 11 of the 18 mountain climbers who reached the top of K2, the world’s second highest peak, died during the descent, which is regarded as the deadliest 48 hours on the Pakistani […]
Written & Directed by Jia Zhang-ke Produced by Shozo Ichiyama Released by Kino Lorber Mandarin with English subtitles. China. 125 min. Not rated With Zhao Tao, Jiang Wu, Wang Baoqiang & Luo Lanshan One of the greatest filmmakers currently working, Jia Zhangke has become one of the most vital and poetic chroniclers of modern day […]
Written & Directed by Joseph Gordon-Levitt Produced by Ram Bergman Released by Relativity USA. 90 min. Rated R With Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Scarlett Johansson, Julianne Moore, Tony Danza, Rob Brown, Glenne Headly, Brie Larson & Jeremy Luke If MTV’s The Jersey Shore was remade into a feature-length film and given a darkly humorous treatment, you’d have […]
Directed by Andrew Dosunmu Produced by Lars Knudsen, Jay Van Hoy, Matt Parker, Carly Hugo, Darci Picoult, Chris Maybach, Saemi Kim, Patrick Cunningham & Tony Okungbowa Written by Darci Picoult Released by Oscilloscope Laboratories USA. 107 min. Rated R With Danai Gurira, Isaach De Bankolé, Yaya Alafia, Tony Okungbowa, Bukky Ajayi & Angelique Kidjo Mother […]
Directed by Christian Vincent Produced by Étiene Comar & Philipe Rousselet Written by Comar & Vincent, freely inspired by the life of Danièle Mazet-Delpeuch Released by the Weinstein Company French with English subtitles. France. 95 min. Rated PG-13 With Catherine Frot, Jean d’Ormesson, Hippolyte Girardot, Arthur Dupont & Jean-Marc Roulot When Hortense Laborie (Catherine Frot) […]
Written and Directed by Haifaa Al Mansour Produced by Razor Film, Roman Paul & Gerhard Meixner Released by Sony Pictures Classics Arabic with English subtitles Saudi Arabia/Germany. 97 min. Rated PG With Reem Abdullah, Waad Mohammed, Abdullrahman Al Gohani, Sultan Al Assaf & Ahd Wadjda charmingly promotes a quiet revolution in Saudi Arabia through the […]
Written & Directed by Jonathan Holiff Produced by Holiff, Tanya Lyn Nazarec & Jennifer Phillips Released by New Chapter Productions Canada. 88 min. Not Rated My Father and the Man in Black settles two scores. One is the personal odyssey of a son, debut documentary director Jonathan Holiff, finally reconciling with the memory of his […]
Edited, Written & Directed by Joe Swanberg Produced by Paul Bernon, Sam Slater, Andrea Roa, Swanberg & Alicia Van Couvering Released by Magnolia Pictures USA. 90 min. Rated R With Olivia Wilde, Jake Johnson, Anna Kendrick & Ron Livingston Joe Swanberg, besides being one of the most prominent directors of the micro-budgeted independent films known […]