Film

The Ted Raimi led psychological thriller, Failure!, will have its World Premiere at FrightFest on August 28th. Alief picked up worldwide rights at the Cannes Film Festival in May after Failure! made its debut at the Fantastic Pavillion. Failure!, follows business tycoon James (Raimi – The Quarry, Ash v Evil Dead, Creepshow), a loving family…

TRUTH IS INVISIBLE BEAUTY Bethann Hardison is a trailblazer. And a mother. And ambitious. And a visionary. And a major success in the fashion world. And Black. And a Woman. Now in her seventies, she is still setting goals, reflecting on herself and finding new mountains to climb. Frédéric Tcheng’s beautiful new documentary Invisible Beauty,…

A LESSON IN GREAT FILMMAKING Well-educated but struggling young writer Liam (superb  Daryl McCormack) is very admiring of wealthy, well-respected, British novelist J.M. Sinclair (dazzling Richard E. Grant). Through an unexpected turn of events, Liam is hired as a literature tutor for Sinclair’s teenage son as preparation for his college exams. Liam soon moves into Sinclair’s…

HIGH SCHOOL DRAMA A BIT ELEMENTARY In writer/director Hanna Peterson’s feature film debut, a group of high school seniors struggle through their last year together as the one-year anniversary of a horrific shooting at their school approaches. The close-knit teens are still reeling from the event itself, in particular the loss of the ringleader of…

EXTREME FEAR CAN NEITHER FIGHT NOR FLY — William Shakespeare Orbiting high above our planet on the International Space Station – I.S.S. – an American scientist who recently returned to earth is being replaced by another, newbie scientist (a solid Ariana DeBose). She joins an established team of three Russian and three American (now including…

A JOURNALISM POWERHOUSE Dan Rather sits in the back of a town car, looking pensive. Now in his early 90s, the icon of American journalism is being driven, somewhere, on a rainy day in Manhattan. We never find out where he’s going. For director Frank Marshall, his fascinating new documentary, simply titled Rather, is more…

THIS SOUL NEEDS DOCTORING Soul Doctor is a 2010 musical about Rabbi Shlomo Carlbach, a.k.a. The Singing Rabbi and The Rock and Roll Rabbi, from his childhood in Nazi-occupied Vienna to his Orthodox upbringing in Brooklyn. Moving from Off-Off- to Off- to Broadway, the   dramatizes his exploration, as a young man, of the Greenwich Village…

Nelly & Nadine  is the unlikely love story between two women falling in love on Christmas Eve, 1944, in the Ravensbrück concentration camp. Despite being separated in the last months of the war, Nelly and Nadine manage to later reunite and spend the rest of their life together. For many years their love story was kept…

With the release earlier this year of  Avatar: The Way of Water, 3D movie viewing has become a major talking point again. While audiences tend to love 3D films, they’re generally not quite as enamored with the glasses that are required to get the effect. This has led many people to question whether it’s possible to…