SHIFT, THE (director/writer: Brock Heasley; cinematographer: Edd Lukas; editor: Chris Witt; music: Dan Haseltine, Matthew S. Nelson; cast: Kristoffer Polaha (Kevin Garner), Neal McDonough (The Benefactor), Sean Astin (Gabriel), Elizabeth…

BIRDER (director: Nate Dushku; screenwriter: Amnon Lourie; cinematographer: Robert M. Edgecomb; editor: Ian Holden; music: Culley Johnson; cast: Miles Crawford (David Sachs), Jes Davis (Sam Delaney), David J. Cork (Mathew…

ORIGIN  (CASTE) (director/writer: Ava DuVernay; screenwriter: based on the book "Caste: The Origin of our Discontents" by Isabel Wilkerson; cinematographer: Matthew J. Lloyd; editor: Spencer Averick; music: Kris Bowers; cast:…

SILENT NIGHT (director/writer: John Woo; screenwriter: Robert Archer Lynn; cinematographer: Sharone Meir; editor: Zach Staenberg;  music: Marco Beltrami; cast: Joel Kinnaman (Brian Godlock), Harold Torres (Playa), Scott 'Kid Cudi' Mescudi …

PERFECT DAYS (director/writer: Wim Wenders; screenwriter: Takuma Takasaki; cinematographer: Franz Lustig; editor: Toni Froschhammer; music: Lou Reed; cast: Koji Yakusho (Hirayama), Tokio Emoto (Takashi), Arisa Nakano (Niko), Aoi Yamada (Aya),…

CANDY CANE LANE (director: Reginald Hudlin; screenwriter: Kelly Younger; cinematographer: Newton Thomas Sigel; editors: Jim May, Kenny G. Krauss; music: Marcus Miller; cast: Eddie Murphy (Chris Carver), Jillian Bell (Pepper),…

HUNGER GAMES: BALLAD OF SONGBIRDS AND SNAKES, THE (director: Francis Lawrence; screenwriters: Michael Arndt, Michael Leslie, based on the novel by Suzanne Collins; cinematographer: Jo Willems; editor: Mark Yoshikawa; music:…

UNKNOWN MAN OF SHANDIGOR, THE   (L’inconnu de Shandigor) (director/writer: Jean-Luis Ray; screenwriters: Pierre Korainik, Gabriel Arout; cinematographer: Roger Bimpage; editor: Francoise Gentet; music: Alphonse Roy; cast: Marie-France Boyer (Sylvaine),…

DADDIO (director/writer: Christy Hall; cinematographer: Phedon Papamichael; editor: Lisa Zeno Churgin; music: Dickon Hinchliffe; cast: Dakota Johnson (Girlie), Sean Penn (Will Clark), Shannon Gannon (Driver), Marcos A. Gonzalez (Taxi Attendant);…

RUMBLE THROUGH THE DARK (director/writer: Graham Phiilips, Parker Phillips; screenwriter: Michael Farris Smith, based on Smith's book "The Fighter"; cinematographer: David J. Myrick; editor: Ned Thorne; music: Brad Smith; cast:…