Motherless Brooklyn MOTHERLESS BROOKLYN (2019) Starring Edward Norton, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Alec Baldwin, Bruce Willis, Bobby Cannavale, Cherry Jones, Leslie Mann, Willem Dafoe, Josh Pais, Michael Kenneth Williams, Ethan Suplee, Dallas Roberts, Robert Ray Wisdom, Fisher Stevens, Radu Spingel, Peter Lewis, Nelson Avidon, DeShawn White, Deborah Unger and Candace M. Smith. Screenplay by Edward Norton. Directed by Edward Norton. Distributed by Warner Bros. 144 minutes. Rated R. Edwar

The Third Man THE THIRD MAN (1949) Starring Joseph Cotton, Alida Valli, Orson Welles, Trevor Howard, Bernard Lee, Paul Hoerbiger, Ernst Deutsch, Siegfried Breuer, Erich Ponto, Hedwig Bleibtreu and Wilfrid Hyde-White. Screenplay by Graham Greene. Directed by Carol Reed. Distributed by Rialto Pictures/Studio Canal.  104 minutes.  Not Rated. Nearly 30 years on from his death, Orson Welles is remembered as a brilliant writer and director.  However, his skill as an actor is not of

Kill Me Three Times KILL ME THREE TIMES (2015) Starring Simon Pegg, Sullivan Stapleton, Alice Braga, Teresa Palmer, Callan Mulvey, Luke Hemsworth, Bryan Brown and Steve Le Marquand. Screenplay by James McFarland. Directed by Kriv Stenders. Distributed by Magnolia Pictures.  90 minutes.  Rated R. It seemed like finally, two decades hence, we’d made it past the Quentin Tarantino-wannabe films.  You know, those blood-stained movies populated by cheerfully amoral, cold-hearted, d

Fargo FARGO (1996) Starring Frances McDormand, William H. Macy, Steve Buscemi, Harve Presnell, Peter Stormare, Kristin Rudrüd, Tony Denman, John Carroll Lynch, Larissa Kokernot, Melissa Peterman, Steven Reevis, James Gaulke, Steve Park, Bruce Campbell and Jose Feliciano. Screenplay by Joel Coen & Ethan Coen. Directed by Joel Coen. Distributed by Fox Home Entertainment. 98 minutes. Rated R. In the opening of Fargo there is one of those title cards that informs you that “This i

The Bag Man THE BAG MAN (2014) Starring John Cusack, Rebecca Da Costa, Robert De Niro, Crispin Glover, Dominic Purcell, Kirk "Sticky Fingaz" Jones, Theodus Crane, Martin Klebba, David Shumbris, Chazz Menendez. Ian Mclaughlin, Mike Mayhall, Danny Cosmo, John Wilmot, J. Todd Anderson, Celesta Hodge and David Grovic. Screenplay by David Grovic and Paul Conway. Directed by David Grovic. Distributed by Cinedigm Films. 106 minutes. Rated R. The slow-but-inescapable erosion of John

The Ice Harvest THE ICE HARVEST (2005) Starring John Cusack, Billy Bob Thornton, Connie Nielsen, Randy Quaid, Oliver Platt, Ned Bellamy, Matthew Campobasso, Diane Francis Fisher, Lori Ann Gerdisch, Shana Goodsell, Megahn Maureen McDonough, Lara Phillips, Michael Stailey, Mike Starr, Jenny Wade and Rick Touhy. Screenplay by Richard Russo and Robert Benton. Directed by Harold Ramis. Distributed by Focus Features.  88 minutes.  Rated R. If you go into The Ice Harvest expecting a