Overview Directed by Axelle Laffont, MILF (2018), the filmmaker’s feature-length debut, marries comedy with drama along the Côte d’Azur. Co-scripted by Laffont and an ensemble of co-scenarists, the film features Virginie Ledoyen, Marie-Josée Croze, and Laffont as its principals. Sun-soaked, Riviera-set, the narrative marries levity, sly observation, and an occasional note of melancholy within an […]
Overview Don’t Leave is a Turkish romantic drama film released in 2022, helmed by Ozan Açiktan, who co-wrote the screenplay with Sami Berat Marçali. Running to a measured 107 minutes, the film unfolds as a quiet meditation on love, emotional immaturity, the mechanics of recollection, and the grueling aftermath of sorrow. Headlined by Burak Deniz
Overview & Concept Celebrity Sex Tape, a deliberately shoestring-budget comedy, touched screens in 2012 with The Asylum’s unmistakable branding, under the direction of Scott Wheeler. Renowned for churning out mockbusters and hilariously half-baked B-pictures, the studio conceived the effort as a relentless lampoon of everything from tabloid celebrity meltdowns to the mechanics of viral notoriety;
The 2006 release of Little Children, directed by Todd Field and adapted from Tom Perrotta’s novel, presents a quietly devastating portrait of contemporary suburbia through a close-focus, nearly surgical lens. Set in a drab yet manicured enclave of Massachusetts, the film investigates the intertwined lives of residents whose façades of ordinariness conceal a landscape of
Synopsis The Layover, helmed by William H. Macy and released in 2017, is a light romantic comedy whose ribald yet breezy plot intertwines themes of camaraderie, competition, and unexpected love. It chronicles Kate and Meg, inseparable childhood friends, who impulsively book a getaway in an attempt to break free from the tedium of strained careers
Circumstances compel Lynsey to navigate the city’s subtler rhythms rather than its tourist-optimized joy. The quiet chaos of the neighborhood serves as a provisional therapy room, its sights and sounds unflinchingly honest. Bryan Tyree Henry plays a neighbor named James, a mechanic whose grounded demeanor and uninvited kindness inadvertently become Lynsey’s lifeline. The film archives
Synopsis Raven’s Touch is a 2015 independent romantic drama co-directed by Marina Rice Bader and Dreya Weber—who also assumes the lead role. Set against the forests of Northern California, the narrative traces the solitary odyssey of Raven Michaels, a woman seamed with heartbreak and resolved to seek, within the wilderness, the final absolution of her
Disclosure, directed by Barry Levinson, is a sharply conceived techno-thriller and courtroom drama adapted from Michael Crichton’s best-selling novel. Debuting in 1994, the film interrogates the tense intersections of gender, corporate intrigue, and personal betrayal. Its role-reversal premise turns traditional views of power and workplace impropriety inside out, forcing a reconsideration of victim and aggressor.
Synopsis Shortbus, John Cameron Mitchell’s audaciously intimate feature, navigates the porous boundaries of conventional narrative cinema, refusing easy categorization. Set against the pulsing fabric of early-2000s Manhattan, its ensemble of intertwined lives — each marked by jagged epiphanies of love, desire, identity, and intimacy — gradually gravitates toward an underground sanctuary known as “Shortbus.” This
Synopsis: “Don Jon” is a modern romantic dramedy about love, self-identity, and media addiction in the digital age. It was released in 2013, and it’s the feature-length debut for actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt, who wrote and directed the film. It centers on Jon Martello, a “Don Juan” stereotype: A self-assured and good-looking young man from New
