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

In The Driftless Area, Zooey Deschanel plays a woman who may or may not be dead. Caught between worlds, she’s alluring and likable, but ultimately unable to provide any insights into why she’s there, something like the film itself. The Driftless Area …Read more

In less than a decade Hannah Herzsprung has become the most exciting actress in German cinema. After her breakthrough role as a murderer in Four Minutes she had supporting parts in the Oscar nominated The Baader Meinhof Complex and the Oscar winning …Read more

Adapted from Jonathan Franzen’s 2010 article in The New Yorker about illegal bird poaching in Europe, Emptying the Skies approaches its subject from a very humanistic perspective. It’s a smart way to go, as some of these films can get bogged down by …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

Mojave opens with an interview of an unidentified star (Garrett Hedlund), unhappy with fame, invoking Byron and Rimbaud and asking, “When you get what you wanted, what do you want?” From there, the next fifteen minutes are an almost entirely wordless …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

Ryan Ferguson was 20 years old when he was convicted of a murder he didn’t commit. Ryan’s father Bill refused to accept this verdict, so from the moment Ryan was convicted, Bill fought tirelessly to prove his son’s innocence. It all began when in 200 …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

“So atrociously beautiful, dreadful, something incredibly, enormously tragic, so baffling. To be confronted with the landscape of death, a landscape like that. What else could a painter do?” This startling literary quote from Zoran Mušič, a Dachau su …Read more