Michael Carmen Pitt Night of the Hunted By Jay S. Jacobs We’ve been watching the long, winding road that actor Michael Pitt (he’s been going by his full name, Michael Carmen Pitt for the last few years, starting with the film Ghost in the Shell) has been following. The one thing that is most notable about his career is that he almost never has done what was expected of him. He came up in the ranks from the theater world, a smart handsome kid who was fascinated by extreme pers

Robert Schwartzman Nick Rutherford and Robert Schwartzman Seeking the Elusive Unicorn by Jay S. Jacobs It’s funny how life goes sometimes. For example, had Robert Schwartzman and his future wife not stopped into a Manhattan bar one night and both gotten propositioned by a strange woman who referred to herself as a unicorn, the filmmaker’s second film would have never happened. Schwartzman is related to much filmmaking royalty. His mother is actress Talia Shire. His brother is

The Unicorn THE UNICORN (2019) Starring Nick Rutherford, Lauren Lapkus, Lucy Hale, Beck Bennett, Dree Hemingway, Darrell Britt-Gibson, Maya Kazan, John Kapelos, Beverly D’Angelo, Kyle Mooney, Heather Alexander, Jeff Barry, Ryan Davis, Brittany Furlan, Jeff Grace, Jase Grimm, Lauren Knutti, Alison Meagher-Manson, Elizabeth Ruscio, Owen Squire Smith and Robert Schwartzman. Screenplay by Nick Rutherford, Kirk C. Johnson and Will Elliott. Directed by Robert Schwartzman. Distribut

While We’re Young WHILE WE’RE YOUNG (2015) Starring Ben Stiller, Naomi Watts, Adam Driver, Amanda Seyfried, Charles Grodin, Brady Corbet, Adam Horowitz, Maria Dizzia, Matthew Maher, Dree Hemingway, Matthew Shear, Brady Corbet, Greta Lee, Bonnie Kaufman, Peter Bogdanovich and Peter Yarrow. Screenplay by Noah Baumbach. Directed by Noah Baumbach. Distributed by A24.  94 minutes.  Rated R. Is it merely a coincidence that Ben Stiller has made two good movies in the 2010s – and bot