China Heavyweight Movie Review
Title: China Heavyweight Director: Yung Chang Award-winning filmmaker Yung Chang drew praise for 2007’s “Up the Yangtze,” which focused on the many socioeconomically disadvantaged people impacted by the building of…
Drunkboat Movie Review
Title: Drunkboat Director: Bob Meyer Starring: John Malkovich, John Goodman, Dana Delaney, Jim Ortlieb, Jacob Zachar It’s perhaps something of a nautically-titled coincidence, the meandering nature and theatrical roots that…
The Do-Deca-Pentathlon Movie Review
Title: The Do-Deca-Pentathlon Directors: Jay Duplass and Mark Duplass Starring: Mark Kelly, Steve Zissis, Jennifer Lafleur, Reid Williams, Julie Vorus Testosteronized rivalry has informed the cinematic canon of the Duplass…
The Pact Movie Review
Title: The Pact Director: Nicholas McCarthy Starring: Caity Lotz, Casper Van Dien, Agnes Bruckner, Haley Hudson, Kathleen Rose Perkins, Mark Steger A horror movie in only the loosest sense, writer-director…
Top Priority: The Terror Within Movie Review
Title: Top Priority: The Terror Within Director: Asif Akbar An intensely felt but jumbled and poorly reasoned cinematic treatise against governmental bureaucracy run amok and specifically a series of Constitutional…
Union Square Movie Review
Title: Union Square Director: Nancy Savoca Starring: Mira Sorvino, Tammy Blanchard, Mike Doyle, Daphne Rubin-Vega, Michael Rispoli, Patti Lupone A half-sketched tale of familial floundering, Nancy Savoca’s “Union Square” is…
Nipples & Palm Trees Movie Review
Title: Nipples & Palm Trees Director: Dylan Reynolds Starring: Matt James, Sadie Katz, Aki Kitamura, Dallas Malloy, Vanessa Rose Parker If a catchy, memorable and/or weirdly evocative title made a…
Exclusive: Lynn Shelton Talks Your Sister’s Sister, Touchy Feely
Filmmaker Lynn Shelton made quite a splash in 2009 with the Sundance-minted “Humpday,” about two straight guys who enter into an “art project” pact to make a gay porn film…
Pelotero: Ballplayer Movie Review
Title: Pelotero: Ballplayer Directors: Ross Finkel, Trevor Martin, Jon Paley Sports as a tool for upward social mobility is of course nothing new — in generations past, boxing was a…