Cop Car takes place on the prairies and outskirts of a rural town in the heartland of America. There are only a handful of characters, and the stakes are kept high by focusing on how ignorant and naive the sweet, innocent kid protagonists are, and ho …Read more
The Runner is set in 2010, when New Orleans was still rebuilding from Hurricane Katrina and the Deepwater Horizon oil spill further crippled the city’s economy and ecology. Congressman Colin Price (Nicolas Cage), the son of a former mayor, g …Read more
A LEGO Brickumentary is a licensed documentary that tells the origins of the brand and sheds light on all the incredible ways that LEGO blocks are being used around the world today. Narrated by Jason Bateman, the film introduces us to the lead design …Read more
In Paulo Coelho’s Best Story Spanish actress Paz Vega plays Luiza, a sensual composite of several women who influenced the famous writer (played by Júlio Andrade) in his youth. Overpowering the screen with her magnetic charisma and star presence Vega …Read more
2015 marks the 40th year anniversary for Saturday Night Live and, in honor of the celebration, the year has witnessed the birth of numerous specials and documentaries highlighting the pivotal role of the show in popular culture. Since its debut, Satu …Read more
That Sugar Film is a documentary in the vein of Super Size Me that explores the health effects of a particular food group. In this case the target is the sugar industry. Filmmaker Damon Gameau approaches this subject in a fairly pedestrian, tawdry ma …Read more
At some point during the 1980s, two-time-Oscar winner Marlon Brando commissioned a digitized 3D version of his head, not only predicting the resurrecting celebrities via hologram craze of the 2010s, but also confirming that Brando’s greatest love aff …Read more
Based on David Lipsky’s memoir, The End of the Tour chronicles Rolling Stone writer Lipsky’s (Jesse Eisenberg) conversations with David Foster Wallace (Jason Segel) during the final leg of the book tour for his one thousand page masterpiece novel, In …Read more
Since making her Broadway debut in 2001, theatregoers have been lucky enough to see Nikki M. James onstage almost every year (in fact she’s currently starring in Preludes at Lincoln Center Theatre), and now filmgoers will have the opportunity to see …Read more
For all its noir undertones and post WWII setting, Christian Petzold’s Phoenix has more in common with a classic musical than anything else. In Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe’s My Fair Lady (inspired by George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion) professor …Read more