Two cousins go on a tour of Holocaust sites in Poland in A Real Pain. David Kaplan (Jesse Eisenberg) has taken some time off his busy work and family life to join his cousin Benji (Kieran Culkin) on a tour of Poland in memory of their recently deceased grandmother. The two join a tour group…
A taxi driver and his passenger have a conversation about the relationships in their lives in Daddio. As his final fare of the night, taxi driver Clark (Sean Penn) picks up Girlie (Dakota Johnson), who is returning home to New York after a two-week trip visiting family in Oklahoma. As Clark makes the drive from…
A filmmaker seeks to reconnect with her estranged Northern Irish father in Trouble. Mariah Garnett travels to Vienna to meet her father David, who she hasn’t seen since she was two years old. Growing up in Belfast at the height of The Troubles, David was the subject of a 1971 BBC news story, solely for…
A struggling artist is introduced to a drug that gets her creative juices flowing, while also introducing some vampiric side-effects. Dezzy (Dora Madison) is a young woman, who has been struggling to finish a painting for an upcoming gallery show, while also having to deal with her nagging landlord, unreliable agent, and her freeloading boyfriend…
The career of filmmaker Hal Ashby is revisited in Hal. Beginning his film career as film editor, which included winning an Oscar for his friend Norman Jewison’s 1967 film In the Heat of the Night, Hal Ashby began his directorial career with the racially charged drama The Landlord in 1970. He followed this up with the controversial cult romance Harold and Maude in…
Of the two buddy cop movies to be released this year, I am inclined to say that I prefer Cop Out to this one. While the critics absolutely loathed Kevin Smith‘s film, at least it had a clear intention what it was out to do. As for The Other Guys, I am still trying to…
