The 19th Annual Rooftop Films Summer Series is gearing up to kick off in NYC Friday, May 29th. Today the full lineup of feature films has been revealed, with Bob Byington’s 7 Chinese Brothers and 8 short films opening this year’s fest.
This year’s Dances With Films Festival is set to kick off May 28th to June 7th in Los Angeles, and today the narrative features and shorts in competition were officially announced. These programs will consist of 16 narrative features and 32 short
The inaugural Mammoth Lakes Film Festival in Mammoth Lakes, California is about to kick off starting May 27th and running through the 31st. The opening night film will be Alex Gibney‘s upcoming Steve Jobs documentary Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine,
Mondo has announced today that tickets for the second MondoCon will be on sale tomorrow, April 30th, with single day tickets at $45 and 2-day tickets at $90. The festival, celebrating film, music, art, and toys with the world’s finest artists, designers,
Ahead of its upcoming release at the Cannes Film Festival, a few more images were released for the latest adaptation of Macbeth, starring Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard. The film is directed by Justin Kurzel (The Snowtown Murders) who will also
Earlier today, Indiewire posted the latest trailer and poster for the upcoming documentary Speed Sisters, which is currently screening at this year’s Hot Docs Film Festival in Canada. The film is directed by Amber Fares, and follows the lives
This week with the 2015 Tribeca Film Festival wrapping up, Adam and Kevin discuss some highlights from this year's festival and talk about tons of movies including Tenured, Necktie Youth, Applesauce, and Virgin Mountain among others.
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That’s a question you might ask yourself early on while watching Applesauce, the latest from writer/director Onur Tukel as it serves as the jumping off point for his tried and true brand of acerbic comedy. And, if you’re familiar with Tukel’s propensity to play rather unlikeable, yet somehow appealing, characters you might ask yourself “how in the world is Tukel playing a high school teacher?” Furthermore, what class demands him to teach these kids about empathy?
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Romanian documentary Toto and His Sisters (Toto si surorile lui) is a great example of how fact can be far more captivating than fiction.
Writer/director Alexander Nanau takes an unflinching look on the lives of three siblings – Ana-Maria (17), Andreea Violeta (14) and Toto (10) – who must take care of themselves and each other amid an abysmal, poverty-stricken, drug-riddled environment. With absent fathers and an imprisoned mother, the trio must find ways to feed and clothe themselves, get an education and avoid becoming pulled into the treacherous grip of heroin addiction, continuously looming over them.
In its second pickup for the day, A24 has acquired the U.S. rights for Pamela Romanowsky‘s The Adderall Diaries, starring James Franco, which premiered at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival. The film features Franco as a struggling writer with a drug problem
Earlier today, The Wrap broke the news that A24 has picked up the U.S. rights for William Monaghan’s drama Mojave, which just had its premiere at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival. The film stars Garrett Hedlund as
The full list of award winners from this year’s Tribeca Film Festival have been announced, Dagur Kári‘s Virgin Mountain winning Best Narrative Feature, and Camilla Nielsson‘s Democrats winning Best Documentary Feature. Virgin Mountain additionally won Best Screenplay and Best Actor for Gunnar
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The premise of Ben Palmer’s new romantic comedy Man Up is simple: Lake Bell plays Nancy, a jaded thirty-something looking to find Mr. Right and ends up stealing another woman’s blind date, who is a man named Jack (Simon Pegg). Love ensues.
Despite this bare-bones concept, the film proves to be an entertaining little romp, mostly due to the snappy dialogue and strong performances. Sure, it follows the typical rom-com formula, almost to a T, but it has fun doing so.
The Orchard has acquired the North American rights to Steve Hoover‘s upcoming documentary Crocodile Gennadiy, which just had its premiere at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival. The film looks at Gennadiy Mokhnenko, a man who forces homeless and drug-addicted kids off of
Saban Films have announced they nabbed the North American rights to Ben Palmer‘s Man Up, a romantic comedy starring Simon Pegg and Lake Bell, after its world premiere this past Sunday at the Tribeca Film Festival. My full review for this one
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Patrick Brice’s The Overnight begins with an awkward sex scene between our two leads, Alex and Emily, played by Adam Scott and Taylor Schilling, setting the stage for what will be an uncomfortable, yet hilarious, 80 minutes of awkward. Brice pulls no punches in this slightly bizarre exploration into the sex lives of two thirty-something couples, as they attempt to keep the spark alive while raising children.
