With a generation now largely measuring their self-esteem by the amount of likes on their Instagram feed, the veneer of a perfect life is a sought-after badge o...
With the strongest one-two punch of first produced scripts in Hollywood the past few years, Taylor Sheridan has emerged as a distinctive voice in revitalizing t...
While the recent 10 Cloverfield Lane and Room told stories of captivity with various hooks -- science-fiction and the process of healing, respectively -- Cate S...
One of the more impressive New York City-set indie dramas we've seen in the last year is Long Nights Short Mornings, which has enjoyed a festival run since ...
Throughout cinema’s history, gangster life has often been depicted in glamorous fashion with an endless access to drugs, guns, women, sports cars, and mansions....
Opening on intricately hand-painted, colorful postcards featuring Los Angeles sights, the distinct eye of Michelle Morgan immediately emerges. Her directorial d...
If you knew what was to come after death, would you live your life differently? Or would you want to live at all? These are but a few life-altering questions at...
Near the very top of our most-anticipated films of Sundance is writer-director Alex Ross Perry's follow-up to Listen Up Philip and Queen of Earth, titled Go...
Take a portion of The Devils, add a splash of The Witch, a heaping of Monty Python, and then douse it in the comedy of today and you have The Little Hours. Set ...
Timecrimes and Extraterrestrial proved that Nacho Vigalondo could execute smart, inventive science-fiction with a fraction of the budget as those of Hollywo...
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