Director Wade Gasque’s Tiger Orange is a sensitive look at growing up gay that features a breakthrough performance by Frankie Valenti as Todd, the youngest brother of Chet (Mark Strano) a reserved man running the hardware store he inherited from thei …Read more
Perhaps most famously championed by directors like the Coen Brothers, the lovable failure with a heart of gold has become so common in cinema that it could almost be considered a sub-genre. I Alone, directed by Sho Tsukikawa, plays into these convent …Read more
Long-distance relationships have come a long way since the days where the closest form of contact was a phone call. Today, you can actually see your significant other by live feed during video chat or stay up to date on virtually everything they are …Read more
Amy is a deeply personal story about a beautiful young girl and her lifelong relationship to music. This purity eventually gets tarnished, and we’re there to watch it all go awry. For those to whom Amy Winehouse was nothing more than an incredible vo …Read more
With moody alto-sax melodies and 3D visuals stunning enough to pop eyeballs out of sockets, Minimus 3D Arkestra reinvents what the combination of moving image and music can accomplish. In usual cases, performed art that attempts at a redefinition or …Read more
Mala Mala, the beautiful documentary by Antonio Santini and Dan Sickles, is an intimate journey into the complicated and vibrant lives of a group of transgender individuals, and drag queens in Puerto Rico. The well-rounded cast includes trans activis …Read more
The Princess of France is Matías Piñeiro’s fourth feature length film, and the third consecutive project (if we include the short film Rosalinda) which he’s based on the works of Shakespeare. This unique take on Love’s Labour’s Lost takes place in th …Read more
Ami Canaan Mann directs the touching drama Jackie and Ryan in which two people whose lives are lacking any finite direction discover that together their goals are much clearer. Jackie (Katherine Heigl) is a single mother struggling to attain sole cus …Read more
The divided title of Escobar: Paradise Lost reveals the essential problem with writer/director Andrea Di Stefano’s film – that’s it’s aspiring to be two different films that don’t always cohere. One aspiration is to portray the larger than life story …Read more
A battered woman lies chained to a dingy bed in a decrepit cellar. Her captor, a belligerent, babbling man, enters the frame as we see glimpses of the woman struggling to grasp a concealed brick. Once he is within reach, she grabs the brick and proce …Read more
