In “Tomorrow We Disappear” (read our review here), the Brooklyn-based team of Adam M. Weber and Jim Goldblum travel all the way to India to introduce us to the Kathputli colony, a suburb outside of Delhi populated by magicians, acrobats and street ar …Read more
In “Garnet’s Gold”, director Ed Perkins takes us on a journey to the Scottish highlands as he and his subject, Garnet Frost, try to find a long lost treasure missing since 1745. Two decades before, Frost encountered a near death experience in the ver …Read more
An affecting portrait of a landscape in decay, “Beneath the Harvest Sky” is a promising debut from writer/director team Aron Gaudet and Gita Pullapilly. The pair are former documentarians and that past shows in the observational rigor brought to the …Read more
Once in a blue moon, through Hollywood’s relentless onslaught of glossy remakes, reboots, sequels, and prequels, a film will emerge that’s so unique, so creative, that it defies description. “The One I Love” is that film. Starring Mark Duplass (“Safe …Read more
“The Canal”, a horror film written and directed by Irish filmmaker Ivan Kavanagh, had its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival on April 18. It stars Rupert Evans (“Hellboy”) as a loving husband and father who, after he discovers archival foota …Read more
Roman Polanski will never not be a controversial figure. Whether it’s his personal history or his artistry in general, there will always be detractors and supporters. For the detractors, it may be easy to dismiss the director’s latest effort, “Venus …Read more
Nine year old Junior (Samuel Lange) wants nothing more than to straighten his curls so he can look like a singer in his elementary school picture. Whenever his mother Marta (Samantha Castillo) is away, he sneaks into the bathroom and attempts to “fix …Read more
When his wife leaves him, taking their three kids with her, Belgian farmer Marcel sinks into the kind of depression Alexander Payne makes movies about. Going on drinking binges and contemplating several ways of committing suicide, his only confidant …Read more
“Night Moves” deserves some recognition for its taut atmosphere. In the fifth feature from Kelly Reichardt, three young radicals cobble together to blow up a hydroelectric dam in Oregon. For Josh (Jesse Eisenberg) and Dena (Dakota Fanning), the reaso …Read more
Andrew Scott is an actor who deserves a movie script that will really let audiences see his talent. “The Bachelor Weekend”, while funnier and funnier as it goes, is too safe and farcical to do the trick; so he wonderfully wriggles around the fuss. Th …Read more