RETIREMENT PLAN, THE (director/writer: Tim J. Brown; cinematographer: Mark Irwin; editors: Robert Brakey, Kurt Nishimura; music: Roger Suen; cast: Nicolas Cage (Matt), Ron Perlman (Bobo), Grace Byers (Hector), Thalia Campbell…

ORDINARIES, THE (director/writer: Sophie Linnenbaum; screenwriter: Michael Fetter Nathansky; cinematographer: Valentin Selmke; editor: Kai Eiermann; music: Fabian Zeidler; cast: Fine Sendel (Paula Feinmann), Sira-Anna Faal (Hannah Cooper), Noah Tinwa (Simon),…

GODS OF MEXICO (director/writer: Helmut Dosantos; Runtime: 97; MPAA Rating: NR; producers: Gerardo Gonzalez Fernandez, Pilar Goutas, Marta Nunez Puerto, Helmut Dosantos; Oscilloscope Laboratories; 2022-B/W, color-USA, Mexico) “It zings us…

CREATOR, THE (director/writer: Garth Edwards; screenwriters: Chris Weitz, story by Edwards; cinematographers: Greig Fraser, Oren Soffer; editors: Hank Corwin, Scott Morris, Joe Walker; music: Hans Zimmer; cast: John David Washington…

DESPERATION ROAD (director: Nadine Crocker; screenwriter: novel & screenplay by Michael Farris Smith; cinematographer: Sy Turnbull; editor: Jing Han; music: Haim Mazar; cast: Garrett Hedlund (Russell Grimes), Willa Fitzgerald (Maben),…

POOLMAN (director/writer: Chris Pine; screenwriter: Ian Gotler; cinematographer: Matthew Jensen; editor: Stacey Schroeder; music: Andrew Bird; cast: Chris Pine (Darren Barrenman), Annette Bening (Diane), Danny DeVito (Jack), Jennifer Jason Leigh…

ROYAL HOTEL, THE (director/writer: Kitty Green; screenwriter: Oscar Redding; cinematographer: Michael Latham; editor: Kasra Rassoulzadegan; music: Jed Palmer; cast: Julia Garner (Hanna), Jessica Henwick (Liv), Hugo Weaving (Billy), Bree Bain…

LETTER TO BREZHNEV  (director: Chris Bernard; screenwriter: Frank Clarke; cinematographer: Bruce McGowan; editor: Lesley Walker; music: Alan Gill; cast: Peter Firth (Peter), Alfred Molina (Sergei), Margi Clarke (Teresa), Neil Cunningham…

TOKYO SONATA (director/writer: Kiyoshi Kurosawa; screenwriters: Max Mannix, Sachiko Tanaka; cinematographer: Akiko Ashizawa; editor: Koichi Takahashi; music: Kazumasa Hashimoto; cast: Kyôko Koizum (Megumi), Teruyuki Kagawa (Ryuhei Sasaki), Kai Inowaki (Kenji…

EXCORCIST-BELIEVER, THE (director/writer: David Gordon Green; screenwriter: Peter Sattler; cinematographer: Michael Simmonds; editor: Tim Alverson; music: David Wingo, Amman Abbasi; cast: Leslie Odom Jr (Victor Fielding), Lidya Jewett (Angela), Olivia…