Ariel Kleiman is an Australian filmmaker whose short films have won prizes at both Sundance and Cannes. His feature debut, Partisan, starring Vincent Cassel, is a richly textured, deeply chilling story of a child assassin who dares to question his ci …Read more

The Annual Animation Show of Shows is the place to find the best, most acclaimed animated shorts of the year and it often includes at least one of the year’s Oscar nominees. The show will screen in Los Angeles at Arclight Cinema Hollywood from Septem …Read more

David Thorpe is the director of the highly celebrated documentary, Do I Sound Gay, a filmic essay that explores insecurities some gay men have about their voices, where those voices come from, and what the stigmas are around them. The film is a sheer …Read more

Jon Marcus’ web series Hunting Season is a witty, fast paced, and fun commentary on the lives of three twenty something gay men navigating the sea of singles in NYC. Inspired by a very popular sex blog written by a blogger with the main character’s n …Read more

The key to enjoying a film by Quentin Dupieux (with the exclusion, perhaps, of major disappointment Wrong Cops) is to release yourself from logic and settle into a mode of lighthearted, unquestioning viewership. Accepting these parameters allows a po …Read more

People are staying young longer, especially in LA. In Patrick Brice’s new film The Overnight, he takes a raunchy comedic lens to those 30-something married couples who aren’t quite ready to settle into an 8 o’clock bedtime routine. The resulting less …Read more

Gone are the days of good triumphing over all. Leave that to Hollywood. Gerard Johnson’s Hyena instead is set in a world where all men are evil and all women are victims. This bleak outlook acts as the motivating factor to every choice Hyena makes. T …Read more

Every celebrity has his fans, including John Gotti. Director Nick Sandow’s The Wannabe tells the story of the Gambino boss’ biggest unknown disciple, Thomas (Vincent Piazza), a loser drug addict from the Bronx with major mafia aspirations. Set in 199 …Read more

Meeting with the director and lead actress of Come Down Molly is a delight. When I arrive in the interview space, director Gregory Kohn sits in the waiting room with everyone else, watching a Naomi Watts film. As we wait for actress Eléonore Hendrick …Read more

“Sometimes we would go out 9 times in a year, sometimes once, and in one particular year, we didn’t leave the apartment at all,” explains Govinda Angulo, “our father was the only one with keys.” Director Crystal Moselle felt a documentarian’s itch ri …Read more