The Hunter’s Prayer opens with a bang. Actually, three bangs, as Metzgar (Martin Compston) an assassin has shot and killed Mr. and Mrs. Hatto (Eben Young and Stephanie Dooley) and […]
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The Hunter’s Prayer opens with a bang. Actually, three bangs, as Metzgar (Martin Compston) an assassin has shot and killed Mr. and Mrs. Hatto (Eben Young and Stephanie Dooley) and […]
Read moreThe Israeli film, The Wedding Plan, was originally titled Through the Wall, a reference to the main character Michal (Noa Kolar) stating that her determination to get married is like […]
Read moreThe meal in The Dinner is costly both in terms of the price for the food, and for the emotional and physical toll it has on the characters. However, in […]
Read moreAdapted from Julian Barnes’ celebrated novel, The Sense of an Ending is an exquisite coming-of-old-age story. Tony Webster (Jim Broadbent) is a divorced retiree in London who runs a store […]
Read moreA good short film hooks viewers, carries them through the story, and delivers a satisfying payoff. The beauty of short films is that they are brief, intense snippets of a […]
Read moreLive by Night is a glossy and bloody prohibition-era set film about Joe Coughlin (Ben Affleck), an Irish gangster. Based on Dennis Lehane’s novel, and written, directed, and produced by […]
Read moreThere were some great films that came out in 2016, but whereas some were box office hits, others may have played Philadelphia exactly once at a film festival or other […]
Read moreThe feature debut of Chinese writer/director Johnny Ma, Old Stone is a taut, efficient little thriller. Lao Shi (Chen Gang) is a taxi driver who accidently hits motorcyclist Li Jiang […]
Read moreDemon, by the late Polish filmmaker Marcin Wrona, is initially unsettling as Piotr (Itay Tiran) arrives in the Polish countryside for his wedding to Zaneta (Agnieszka Zulewska). His bride’s father […]
Read moreIn the six-minute pre-credit sequence of director/co-writer Joshua Marston’s intriguing drama, Complete Unknown, Rachel Weisz is seen playing a nurse, a magician’s assistant, and a few other roles. When she […]
Read moreBorn in Bryn Mawr, raised in Mt. Airy and a 2014 graduate from the University of Pennsylvania (he majored in Cinema Studies), Nick Marini makes an auspicious film debut as […]
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