Coming of age is fun, yet awkward and uncomfortable. Leaping […]
Two people. A ride from JFK airport to midtown Manhattan: “DADDIO” is one of this year’s best films!
Writer-director Christy Hall’s “Daddio” is a smart and ambitious work […]
Director Erica Tremblay’s “Fancy Dance” aligns its warm heart with […]
Daina O. Pusić’s feature debut, “Tuesday” is a film of […]
Screenwriter Lauren Pomerantz and co-directors Tig Notaro and Stephanie Allynne’s “Am I Okay?” is an honest and well-written work about two best friends in their thirties, both of whom are having life-changing moments. Lucy (Dakota Johnson) and Jane (Sonoya Mizuno) have been besties for years. They know one another inside and out and can predict the other’s every beat and emotion. The two keep no secrets, save for one. Lucy is indeed keeping something from her friend, hiding the fact that
Writer-director Shane Atkinson's "LaRoy, Texas" is a deliciously nasty film in the style of early-John Dahl (especially his "Red Rock West"), with the grim humor of the Coen Brothers thrown in. This is the kind of southern pulp noir that grabs its audience by the hair and forces them down in the muck.
John Magaro is Ray is the definition of a pushover and a classic noir schlub; his older brother, Junior (Matthew Del Negro), treats him like his inferior even though the two supposedly own equal shares in the hardware business they inherited from their parents. Ray also learns that his wife, Stacy-Lynn (Megan Stevenson), is having an affair.