Ernest Hardy

GO  HIDEAWAY There are actually two hideaways in François Ozon's meditative Hideaway — the gorgeous, sparsely furnished apartment used as a drug den by wealthy young couple Mousse (Isabelle Carre) and Louis (Melvil Poupaud, star of Ozon's Time to Leave), and the isolated beach house to which the pregnant Mousse......

GO  ONE HUNDRED MORNINGS "I knew it was coming," says a character in writer-director Conor Horgan's apocalypse drama One Hundred Mornings. "Still, I didn't expect it quite so quickly." The viewer is never told exactly what "it" is — war? An outbreak of disease? Instead we're dropped into an isolated......

THE VIRGINITY HIT Buried beneath Virginity Hit's determinedly crude gags about diarrhea, incest and frat-house debauchery is giggly but unfocused commentary on the role and prevalence of the Internet — specifically YouTube — in the sex lives and the rituals of humiliation (often intertwined) of 21st-century teens. Matt (a charmingly......

GO NESHOBA: THE PRICE OF FREEDOM If Andrew Breitbart's recent sliming of Shirley Sherrod ultimately shows how far this country still has to go on matters of race, the documentary Neshoba shows how far we've come. Co-directed by Micki Dickoff and Tony Pagano, Neshoba surveys the lingering effects of, and......

FAMILY AFFAIR (USA) At the age of 10, director Chico David Colvard — imitating his TV hero "The Rifleman" — accidentally shot one of his three sisters, using his father's gun. That tragedy had a domino effect, exposing the father's molestation of his daughters and all but destroying the family......

The best film in this week's Tribeca Film showcase is Brian Hill's fantastic Climate of Change, a sobering look at the havoc wreaked upon the planet as we race to harvest natural resources while simultaneously creating both nonbiodegradable refuse and staggering amounts of pollution. (The film focuses on the coal......

The latest experiment in saving indie film comes courtesy of Tribeca Film, a branch of the DeNiro-founded brand that — in collaboration with American Express — is releasing former Tribeca Film Festival selections on multiple platforms, including video-on-demand and art-house theatrical runs, like this two-week series at the Sunset 5......

One of the hottest tickets for this year's L.A. Asian Pacific Film Festival will undoubtedly be Lixin Fan's exquisite documentary Last Train Home (a Sundance hit earlier this year), about the changes roiling modern China and how they play out in one family. But the festival — which includes everything......