Caligula: A Penthouse Look at Rome

Malcolm McDowell and Helen Mirren. Photo: Penthouse Films International In the 1970s, Bob Guccione had become a notorious but  successful man. His Penthouse magazine had made him wealthy and he…

Goebbels and the Führer

A drama focusing on the relationship between Hitler and his chief propagandist, Joseph Goebbels, from the 1930s right up to their end in a Berlin bunker in 1945. In an…

Transformers One

On the planet Cybertron, two anonymous miners who will one day be leaders and mortal enemies decide to join a race that will throw them into an adventure with huge…

Coup de Chance

Fanny (Lou de Laâge), who’s married to a wealthy man (Melvil Poupaud) in Paris, bumps into an acquaintance (Niels Schneider) from high school; friendship leads to love, but Fanny’s husband…

Guy Manley: A Real Movie

The world’s best secret agent (Baltazar Ploteau) is busy drinking himself to death when his former boss recruits him for another mission: he needs his brother killed. A wild, CGI-heavy…

Uglies

In the future, teenagers are kept separate from the rest of the population until they turn 16 and receive a full-body cosmetic surgery; 15-year-old Tally (Joey King) finds reason to…

Your Fat Friend

Perhaps a little too much time is spent here on crafting a compassionate portrait of its subject: blogger, author and podcaster Aubrey Gordon. Her career as an activist began when…

Rifkin’s Festival

Struggling writer Mort Rifkin (Wallace Shawn) accompanies his wife (Gina Gershon) to the San Sebastian film festival and ponders life through the power of cinema… while also becoming smitten with…

Rebel Ridge

Former Marine Terry Richmond (Aaron Pierre) is rammed by a couple of small-town cops who seize the $36,000 in cash that he’s carrying, needed to bail out his cousin; soon,…

Pasolini

Director Abel Ferrara wisely relied on one of his favorite actors, Willem Dafoe, to play the renowned and controversial Italian filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini in his last hours before his…