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The Museum of Modern Art and the Film Society of Lincoln Center has today announces their complete lineup for the 46th annual New Directors/New Films (Nd/Nf), running March 15 – 26. Dedicated to the discovery of new works by emerging and dynamic filmmaking talent, this year’s festival will screen 29 features and nine short films. This year’s lineup boasts nine North American premieres, seven U.S. premieres, and two world premieres, with features and shorts from 32 countries across five continents.

The opening, centerpiece, and closing night selections showcase three exciting new voices in American independent cinema that all recently debuted at Sundance: Geremy Jasper’s “Patti Cake$” is the opening night pick, while Eliza Hittman’s “Beach Rats” is the centerpiece selection and Dustin Guy Defa will close the festival with “Person to Person.” Other standouts include “Menashe,” “My Happy Family,” “Quest” and “The Wound.”

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Ryan Lambie Feb 22, 2017

In the midst of a spectacularly gory horror western, Bone Tomahawk throws in a perfectly-crafted piece of visual storytelling...

Great horror brings with it a hint of mischief. Like a mischievous child dangling a spider in front of a younger sibling, the genre quietly takes delight in teasing, terrorising and generally pushing our buttons.

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There's a pleasingly broad streak of mischief running through Bone Tomahawk, S Craig Zahler's earthy horror-western. From its opening shot, throats are cut, appendages are hacked off, bodies rent limb from limb, yet it's all served up with such character and blackly comic relish that it's far less harrowing than it sounds.

In the Old West, a pair of robbers stumble on the stomping ground of a flesh-eating cave dwellers; one escapes their clutches and flees to the nearby town of Bright Hope, unaware that...

The last few years have seen the original team of Sony’s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo step away from committing to a follow-up — some fairly quickly (David Fincher) and others taking their time (Daniel Craig and Rooney Mara) — but we now, finally, have some momentum. Last year, we learned that Steven Knight (Locke, Eastern Promises) was hired to adapt David Lagercrantz‘s The Girl in the Spider’s Web, and Sony is now eying a director.

According to Variety, Fede Alvarez (Don’t Breathe, Evil Dead) has entered the running to helm this sequel. It certainly makes sense why the studio is looking to hand the franchise over to the director, whose latest horror feature made over $150 million worldwide on a budget under $10 million. The taut, tightly directed Don’t Breathe also drew comparisons to Fincher’s Panic Room, so it’s only fitting he may take up the mantle here.

"Sorry, I just slashed my wrists." "Well, tape 'em!"  This is the aftermath of the '60s protest movement. Ivan Passer's riveting murder mystery of flakes and losers in sun-drenched, guilty Santa Barbara expresses the rage of radicals faced with the growing class divide, and the arrogance of the wealthy. Cutter's Way Blu-ray Twilight Time Limited Edition 1981 / Color / 1:85 widescreen / 109 min. / Ship Date , 2016 / available through Twilight Time Movies / 29.95 Starring Jeff Bridges, John Heard, Lisa Eichhorn, Ann Dusenberry, Stephen Elliott, Arthur Rosenberg, Nina Van Pallandt. Cinematography Jordan Cronenweth Production Designer Josan F. Russo Film Editor Caroline Biggerstaff Original Music Jack Nitzsche Writing credits Jeffrey Alan Fiskin, from the novel Cutter and Bone by Newton Thornburg. Produced by Paul R. Gurian Directed by Ivan Passer

Reviewed by Glenn Erickson

Sort of the bad-news post-graduate version of American Graffiti, Ivan Passer's Cutter's Way is a movie with a mindset and background that I partly lived through,...

To call it disjointed is an understatement: Exposed is unintelligible. It feels like two completely different movies inelegantly Frankensteined together. I’m “biast” (pro): like Keanu Reeves

I’m “biast” (con): nothing

(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)

Late one night, in a nearly deserted New York City subway station, Isabel (Ana de Armas) has a mysterious encounter with a luminous being who floats over the tracks, a creature the very religious woman takes to be an angel. The next morning, a cop is found brutally murdered on that very same spot at the station, and his partner, NYPD detective Galban (Keanu Reeves: John Wick, 47 Ronin), takes up the investigation. Isabel’s life unfolds from here as a sort of dreamy, magic-realism domestic drama: she lives with her in-laws while her soldier husband is deployed in Iraq, works as a teacher of young children...

Getting a jump on the 2016 summer movie season (it's right around the corner!), Disney has released a teaser trailer for Steven Spielberg's The Bfg. Adapted from Roald Dahl's 1982 kids' book of the same name, The Bfg tells the story of Sophie (Ruby Barnhill, in her first film role), a young London orphan who dreams of escaping her dreary boarding house.

Late one night, long after all of the other children have gone to sleep, Sophie spots an enormous hooded figure as it prowls through the shadows outside; she doesn't know it yet,...

Sony Pictures is moving forward with another The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo film, but it’s not what fans were all hoping for. THR has learned that the new film will not be based on the sequel, The Girl Who Played With Fire. It will be an adaptation of the fourth book in the Millennium series that was written after Stieg Larsson's death, which is called The Girl in the Spider’s Web.

The report goes on to reveal that David Fincher, Daniel Craig, and Rooney Mara will not be back for the project. The movie that those three individuals put together was great! It’s a shame that the studio has decided to not include them in their future plans of the franchise.

The producers of the first film, Scott Rudin and Amy Pascal, are still on board to help develop it, and apparently the studio sees...

It’s been four years since David Fincher, Rooney Mara, and Daniel Craig‘s The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo remake arrived, prompting at least one question on each of their respective, subsequent press tours: if they would ever follow it up. The last update we got earlier this year — when a fourth book in the franchise, The Girl in the Spider’s Web, was announced — confirmed Fincher would not take part in a potential sequel, but they didn’t rule out Rooney Mara and Daniel Craig.

We now have another update, thanks to THR, which confirm plans for another film in the franchise, but not based on the next book, The Girl Who Played with Fire. Rather, they’ve hired Steven Knight (Locke, Eastern Promises) to adapt David Lagercrantz‘s recently released Spider’s Web. Playing as a reboot of sorts, neither Mara nor Craig will return, as producers...

Late one night last July, shortly after Robert Herjavec and his wife filed for separation, the star of the ABC hit reality show Shark Tank stood on a balcony of his Toronto hotel room and contemplated jumping.

"I just wanted to end it," Herjavec says in People's new issue in a story that chronicles how the 51-year-old multimillionaire tech mogul and Dancing with the Stars competitor found "hope" and new purpose in life after hitting rock bottom following the breakup of his marriage.

"It's been a terribly difficult year," he adds. "We were great parents and a great team, but over time we drifted apart.

Late one night last July, shortly after Robert Herjavec and his wife filed for separation, the star of the ABC hit reality show Shark Tank stood on a balcony of his Toronto hotel room and contemplated jumping. "I just wanted to end it," Herjavec says in People's new issue in a story that chronicles how the 51-year-old multimillionaire tech mogul and Dancing with the Stars competitor found "hope" and new purpose in life after hitting rock bottom following the breakup of his marriage. "It's been a terribly difficult year," he adds. "We were great parents and a great team, but over time we drifted apart.

Late one night last July, shortly after Robert Herjavec and his wife filed for separation, the star of the ABC hit reality show Shark Tank stood on a balcony of his Toronto hotel room and contemplated jumping. "I just wanted to end it," Herjavec says in People's new issue in a story that chronicles how the 51-year-old multimillionaire tech mogul and Dancing with the Stars competitor found "hope" and new purpose in life after hitting rock bottom following the breakup of his marriage. "It's been a terribly difficult year," he adds. "We were great parents and a great team, but over time we drifted apart.

Throughout the month of December, we will be highlighting a film a day that has some tie into the holiday somehow. Some titles will be obvious, others won’t be. Some films will be good and, again, others won’t be. However, we think all titles are worth your time whether to give you chills inside your home or to make you drink more eggnog until you puke laughing.

Late one night young Derek (William Thorne) awakes to someone knocking at the front door. A present left on the porch ends up strangling his dad. Derek has gone into shock and won’t speak. His mom Sarah (Jane Higginson) hopes maybe a toy will cheer him up. They go to the toy store owned by Joe Petto (Mickey Rooney) and his son Pino (Brian Bremer). Old Joe has got some weird toys, like Larry the Larvae. Noah (Tracy Fraim) has...

The story of Moses leading the Israelites out of Egypt is a powerful and iconic story that people of multiple faiths have come to know and embrace. There’s a burning bush, ten devastating plagues, a parting of the sea, and a triumphant journey towards freedom. For a story filled with so much, Ridley Scott offers it so little. Exodus: Gods And Kings is never boring thanks in large part to a strong visual design, but never does it grab hold of your mind or heart as much as your eyes.

Moses (Christian Bale) is a natural leader as evident when the film begins. He rides into battle alongside Ramses (Joel Edgerton), the son of the Pharaoh (John Turturro) who adopted Moses as a son long ago. But it is upon the Pharaoh’s death that Moses has to see Ramses now claim the throne and rule Egypt, whom he does with an oppressive hand.