It’s been six long years since Lynne Ramsay’s We Need to Talk About Kevin shocked and terrified audiences. She may not direct many films but her skill is undeniably first rate and Ramsay films have become synonymous with psychological stunner and unf …Read more

BAMcinemaFest is Brooklyn’s annual showcase of festival indie darlings and premieres. Giving New York City audiences their first chance at catching standout films from top festivals like Sundance and South by Southwest, it provides a sprawling and va …Read more

I, Olga Hepnarova A young lesbian woman (Michalina Olszanska) in the midst of sexual discovery shrinks away from a society that is unkind to her. Full of hatred due to years of being bullied and physically abused, she reconciles with a plan for venge …Read more

Mifune: The Last Samurai is a documentary about the legendary Japanese actor, Toshiro Mifune. Spanning the silent era of samurai film through the death of its greatest star, the film provides an impressive overview of the genre and insight into the l …Read more

The Key Once you get past the vanilla set up, Gedeon Burkhard’s The Key evolves into such preposterous camp that it’s impossible not to be entertained. The writer/director also stars as Tim, a failing business owner who signs a million dollar deal in …Read more

The Alchemist Cookbook In Joel Potrykus’s The Alchemist Cookbook, Sean (Ty Hickson) toils away tirelessly in his trailer attempting to crack the code to nature’s riches. Tucked deep in the woods of Michigan with just his cat Kaspar as company, he has …Read more

Kate Plays Christine Robert Greene’s Kate Plays Christine brilliantly uses the actor’s journey to investigate the 1974 on-air suicide of newscaster Christine Chubbuck. This documentary and fiction hybrid follows actress Kate Lyn Sheil as she prepares …Read more

Jeremy Saulnier burst onto the scene in 2013 with his gritty small-scale revenge tale, Blue Ruin. Staying true to that tone and magnifying it ten-fold, his follow up Green Room is an innovative and shocking chronicle of a young punk rock band’s unfor …Read more

A woman performs CPR on an elderly man inches away from a live missile that could explode at any moment. This sort of visceral, real-world danger haunts every second of director Babak Anvari’s horror film Under the Shadow. Setting the film in Tehran …Read more

Following up a fling with big-budget-blockbuster films, director Gavin Hood’s sleek, hyper-suspenseful Eye in the Sky tells the story of a super secret military operation led by Colonel Katherine Powell (Helen Mirren) tasked with tracking down and ca …Read more