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Simone Cleary (Kate Hudson) greets Shriver (Michael Shannon) in Michael Maren’s whimsical A Little White Lie

Michael Maren’s whimsical A Little White Lie (adapted from Chris Belden’s book Shriver) stars Michael Shannon (also a producer), Kate Hudson (executive producer), Don Johnson, and M Emmet Walsh with Kate Linder, Romy Byrne, Mark Boone Junior, Da'Vine Joy Randolph, Jimmi Simpson, Wendie Malick, and Zach Braff.

Honoré de Balzac, Jerzy Kosinski and Hal Ashby’s Being There, starring Peter Sellers (shown to Olivia Colman by Toby Jones in Sam Mendes’s Empire Of Light), The Landlord, Harold And Maude, Linda Lavin and Harris Yulin in A Short History Of Decay, Max Frisch’s I’m Not Stiller and Call Me Gantenbein, John Barth’s Giles Goat-Boy, James Joyce’s Finnegan’s Wake and Ulysses, Marcel Proust’s Remembrance Of Lost Time, Robert Musil’s The Man Without Qualities, Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s The Yellow Wallpaper,...

A Little White Lie Review — A Little White Lie (2023) Film Review, a movie written and directed by Michael Maren and starring Michael Shannon, Kate Hudson, Don Johnson, M. Emmet Walsh, Peyton List, Wendie Malick, Zach Braff, Da’Vine Joy Randolph, Jimmi Simpson, Perry Mattfeld, Kate Linder, Romy Byrne, Tiffany Bank, Mark Boone Junior, [...]

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A breakthrough performance by a talented young actress is always a sight to behold. Last year at the Tribeca Film Festival, I saw Zoey Deutch own the screen in Flower. This independent picture has stayed with me for almost 12 full months, mainly due to Deutch’s captivating turn. She is riveting, to the point where I’m just as eager to fete her performance today as I was in the moments after that Tribeca screening ended last April. That’s the mark of a talented actress, and Deutch is certainly one. In fact, within the next few years, I’m sure I’ll be writing about her as an A-lister and potentially even an award winner. The movie is an indie black comedy/coming of age story. Erica (Deutch) is a troublemaking teen who, when we first meet her, is blackmailing a small-town cop after performing a sexual act on him.

"I want to see you happy and fulfilled." IFC Films has debuted an official trailer for the indie drama Love After Love, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival last year and also played at the Edinburgh, Nantucket, and Palm Springs Film Festivals. Love After Love is the feature directorial debut of Russell Harbaugh (who was nominated for an Indie Spirit Award for co-writing The Mend in 2016) and stars Andie MacDowell, Chris O'Dowd, and James Adomian. MacDowell plays a mother grieving over the death of her husband, trying to care for her two adult sons who are dealing with trials in their own lives while they watch their mother explore new beginnings of her own. Each discovers how hard it is to find love again after losing someone close. Also starring Francesca Faridany, Seth Barrish, Romy Byrne, and Andrew Beadle. This doesn't look as sad as it sounds, with some...