The classy thriller Maryland singlehandedly jolted me from encroaching jet lag during my first full day at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. (The not-as-elegant English title is the blunter Disorder.) The screening was in the early afternoon after lunch, making it particularly sleep inducing. The movie’s initial slow pace and the often dreamy, bordering on […]
Written and Directed by Anders Morgenthaler Produced by Marie Gade and Julie Lind-Holm Released by Brainsorm Media Germany/Denmark. 97 min. Not rated With Kim Basinger, Jordan Prentice, Peter Stormare, and Sebastian Schipper “We’ll just be a sad couple.” This is what Maria (Kim Basinger) is told by her husband, Peter (Sebastian Schipper), after a devastatingly […]
Directed by Kornel Mundruczo Produced by Viktoria Petranyi Written by Kata Weber, Mundruczo, and Petranyi Released by Magnolia Pictures Hungarian with English subtitles Hungary/Germnay/Sweden. 119 min. Rated R With Zsofia Psotta, Luke and Bodie, Sandor Zsoter, Szabolcs Thuroczy, Lili Monori, Laszlo Galffi, Lili Horvath, and Kornel Mundruczo Points should always be given for a unique […]
Written and Directed by Adam MacDonald Produced by Thomas Michael Released by IFC Midnight Canada. 91 min. Not rated With Missy Peregrym, Jeff Roop, Eric Balfour, and Nicholas Campbell Based on a true story, the feature film debut of actor and director Adam MacDonald follows Jenn (Missy Peregrym) and Alex (Jeff Roop, executive producer) as […]
The 2015 edition of the Sundance Film Festival wasn’t exactly a record-setting year for acquisitions in Park City, as some outlets reported about the Grand Jury and Audience Award?winning dramedy Me and Earl and the Dying Girl and its would-be $12 million offers from distributors. Regardless, business was up from years past. And the quality […]
Directed by Kevin Macdonald Produced by Charles Steel and Macdonald Written by Dennis Kelly Released by Focus Features UK/USA/Russia. 115 min. Rated R With Jude Law, Scoot McNairy, Ben Mendelsohn, David Threlfall, Konstantin Khabenskiy, Sergey Puskepalis, Michael Smiley, Grigory Dobrygin, Sergey Veksler, Sergey Kolesnikov, Bobby Schofield, Jodie Whittaker, and Tobias Menzies Who knew the world […]
Written and Directed by Paul Schrader Produced by Jason Gandhi Released by Lionsgate USA. 94 min. Rated R With Nicolas Cage, Anton Yelchin, Alexander Karim, Irène Jacob, Aymen Hamdouchi, Claudius Peters, and Adetomiwa Edun I almost wish I didn’t know the circumstances surrounding the post-production and release of Dying of the Light, which is advertised […]
Directed by Zeke Hawkins and Simon Hawkins Produced by Justin X. Duprie and Brian Udovich Written by Dutch Southern Released by Starz Digital USA. 91 min. Not rated With Jeremy Allen White, Logan Huffman, Mackenzie Davis, Mark Pellegrino, William Devane, and Jon Gries Bad Turn Worse begins with an act of great hubris when a […]
Directed by Cutter Hodierne Somali, with English subtitles Released by Vice Films USA/Kenya/Somalia. 110 min. Rated R Fishing Without Nets is a beautifully shot, intelligent, and engaging, if somewhat clichéd and obvious, story about a group of Somali pirates who capture a cargo ship. It’s kind of a reverse mirror of Captain Phillips. Or Captain […]