Review: Andre Benjamin in 'Jimi: All Is By My Side'
John Ridley won the Academy Award in March for his screenplay of "12 Years a Slave." His latest subject is another misunderstood black man, Jimi Hendrix.
John Ridley won the Academy Award in March for his screenplay of "12 Years a Slave." His latest subject is another misunderstood black man, Jimi Hendrix.
A minor figure in the jazz world, Joe Albany came to prominence in he '40s and '50s during the bebop era. Like many jazzsters, he had a heroin habit. "Low Down" looks at Albany's life in the '70s through the eyes of his daughter Amy Jo.
When an 11-year-old boy's mother dies, he abandons his country home and takes to the woods where he meets a stoner drifter in "The Cold Lands."
Kevin Asch's followup to "Holy Rollers" portrays another New York subculture: Long Island trustafarians. Set in the 2000s, the movie's backdrop is the country's looming financial crisis.
Matthew Weiner's film debut features Top CelebStoners Owen Wilson, Zach Galifianakis and Amy Poehler, so it can't be bad.