This peek at what goes into a ridiculously long comedy career is at once sad, riveting, and inspiring. Read more>>

Filmmakers Ricki Stern and Annie Sundberg follow comedienne Joan Rivers as she assails the seasons of her 75th year. With fly-on-the-wall observations and close-up-and-personal interviews, they reveal that Rivers flows deeper than her brashly funny truth-and-trash-talking face-lifted blonde public persona normally allows audiences to see. Read more>>

Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work is not about revelation or exposé. It is, instead, about Joan Rivers’ business. Read more>>

Leon Gast’s excellent documentary takes paparazzo Ron Galella as its subject, but also uses him as a way to ask more resonant questions, about celebrity and obsession. Read more>>

Filmmaker Leon Gast turns his camera on Ron Galella, the famous celebrity photographer who stalked his subjects and supplied the tabloids with their hottest shots of famous people who wanted their privacy. By reputation and from some of the commentary in the film, you might expect Galella to be extremely rude and crude, a borderline sociopath. Surprisingly, he’s quite funny, sort of charming and appealingly honest about his lifestyle, goals and foibles. Read more>>

This is more of an update than a remake of the iconic 1984 original which paired young Ralph Macchio with Pat Morita. While the concept is the same, the locale has moved from California to the Far East. Read more

In The Karate Kid, Mr. Han and Dre deserve each other, in a good way. Read more>>

Based on the popular single-panel newspaper cartoon created by Brad Anderson and Phil Leeming, this is a live-action, kid-centric comedy about a huge, galumphing Great Dane and his hapless human family. Read more

At the close of a dark, dreary day as a lonely Irish fisherman reels in his nets, lo and behold, he spies a woman! Choking and sputtering, she’s barely alive. And so begins Neil Jordan’s charming fable, set in the tiny coastal village of Castletownbere on the craggy Beara peninsula in County Cork. Read more

“Ondine” is a lovely, low-key surprise. Read more>>