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“I wanted to be the funny one,” laments the title character of “Hannah Takes the Stairs,” “and I’m never the funny one.” That’s not true. As played by the actress-writer Greta Gerwig, Hannah is neurotic, sweet and mildly sarcastic, in a Gen Y-Diane Keaton sort of way, and her small-stakes odyssey through three relationships is wryly observed. That said, “Hannah,” the third feature by the Chicago writer-director-editor Joe Swanberg, i find out more...

It's New Year's Eve and Wilson, a twenty-nine-year old guy who has just had the worst year of his life, is new to Los Angeles, has no date, no concrete plans and every intention of locking the doors and forgetting the last year ever happened. That is until his best friend, Jacob, browbeats him into posting a personal ad. When Vivian, a strong-willed woman hell bent on being with the right guy at the stroke of midnight responds, a chaotic journey through the city begins for the two, riven with e find out more...

Young teens hang around the mall, slightly older they move on to the inner-city skateboard park. While near there one night 16-year-old Alex is accidentally involved in the fatal death of a railway security guard, an incident that the police rate him as a possible suspect for. Anyway he worries, has to cope with his fears and the consequences of his manslaughter, gets laid by his girlfriend, ignores his parents and teachers - it's early teens growing up time. find out more...

Taking its cue from Chronicle (2012), Project Almanac is part of the "found footage" sci-fi phenomenon sweeping contemporary teen cinema. A group of friends discover time travel and use it to have a lot of fun; rewriting their entry into the high school popularity charts, partying without wasting time, acing tests and getting even with bullies. But, as science would have it, every action has its equal and opposite reaction. Soon the 'jumps' become a desperate attempt to rewrite the rewrite. G find out more...

This hit series stars Gabriel Macht as one of Manhattan's top corporate lawyers who sets out to recruit a new hotshot associate but winds up hiring the only guy that impresses him--a brilliant but unmotivated college dropout (Patrick J. Adams). Though he isn't actually a lawyer, this legal prodigy has the book smarts of a Harvard law grad and the street smarts of a hustler. However, in order to serve justice and save their jobs, both these unconventional thinkers mus find out more...

Slacker Josh, who has failed to make it as a musician in the big city, buys, as a suprise present for his father, a chair that reminds him of his own childhood and sets off on a cross-country drive, with his emotionally demanding girl-friend and brother in tow, to pick it up.
If you've heard the term 'mumblecore' in reference to a new genre of American independent cinema then this is a prime example. find out more...

"Josephine Decker has created a new style of thriller that employs allegory, incorporates touches of David Lynch as well as Magritte -esque imagery. Decker's setting of a remote farm feels like a metaphor for what turns out to be hell. The raw and emotional (and yes, sometimes funny) dialog tells a story that can seem familiar at points but really is meant to keep you guessing and off balance. I really enjoyed how the undertones of this film came to life through her very deft contrast of the find out more...