“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...

It's the off-season at the lonely Beauregard Hotel in Bournemoth, and only the long-term tenants are still in residence. Life is stirred up, however, when the beautiful Ann Shankland arrives to see her alcoholic ex-husband, John Malcolm, who is secretly engaged to Pat Cooper, the woman who runs the hotel. Meanwhile, snobbish Mrs Railton-Bell discovers that the kindly if rather doddering Major Pollock, played by David Niven, who won an Oscar for his performance, a retired officer who likes to 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...