Writer-director Jamie Adams, whose résumé includes low-budget niche efforts such as Black Mountain Poets and Benny & Jolene, continues to explore the world of arty bohemian Brits with his latest,…

The teenage son of a Flemish drug addict in the Netherlands has to grow up much faster than perhaps he’d like in Cobain, the latest feature from Dutch auteur Nanouk…

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. — The Queen City took center stage Wednesday night as Emilio Estevez’s Cincinnati-filmed “The Public” opened the Santa Barbara International Film Festival. The movie prominently features Downtown’s…

Emma. full movie Many years have passed since ‘Out of Wave’ (Clueless, 1995), one of the cult genius teen romantic comedies of Generation X, in which writer and director Amy…

As the film opens, Bertrand, a gigolo himself, is visiting an esteemed English playwright–we know this because the script has him say “I won the Booker Prize once.” Just as…

The plot takes place immediately following the 9/11 attacks and focuses on the CIA’s extreme interrogation program on detainees during the war on terror. The U.S. Senate Select Intelligence Committee…

The bonds of brotherhood, the laws of loyalty, and the futility of violence in the shadows of the US Mexico border gang wars.

A new Houston-made film hopes to flip the script on Hollywood stereotypes by telling its story from the point of view of a handful of Latinx teenagers. Rich Kids, which…

Academy Award nominee and honorary Oscar winner Spike Lee’s Pass Over is said to capture the poetry, humor and humanity of an urgent and timely play about Little Women two…

Early in Madeline’s Madeline, a character says to the camera: “What you are experiencing is just a metaphor.” The woman is speaking to Madeline (Helena Howard), a teenage actor in…

You know you’re watching a film that revels in its own bad taste when it casually pans past a magazine cover touting Karen Carpenter’s new wonder diet. Crass, colorful and…

Actor/director Melanie Laurent makes her English-language directing debut with Galveston, a seedy but sincere and strikingly attractive picture adapted from the novel by Nic Pizzolatto. Starring Ben Foster and Elle…