LOUSY CARTER (2023)

 

Written & Directed By: Bob Byington 

Cinematography: Carmen Hilbert and Lauren Pruitt 

Editor: Kristie Boustedt 

Cast: David Krumholtz, Martin Starr, Luxy Banner, Olivia Thrilby, Jocelyn DeBoer, Stephen Root, Macon Blair, Andrew Bujalski 

Man-baby Lousy Carter struggles to complete his animated Nabokov adaptation, teaches a graduate seminar on The Great Gatsby, and sleeps with his best friend's wife. He has six months to live.

I CARE A LOT (2020)

 

Written & Directed By: J. Blakeson  Cinematography: Doug Emmett  Editor: Mark Eckersley 

Cast: Rosamund Pike, Peter Dinklage, Eiza Gonzalez, Dianne Wiest, Alicia Witt, Chris Messina, Isiah Whitlock Jr., Macon Blair, Damian Young, Nicholas Logan 

A crooked legal guardian who drains the savings of her elderly wards meets her match when a woman she tries to swindle turns out to be more than she first appears.

THE HUNT (2020)

Directed By: Craig Zobel Written By: Damon Lindelof & Nick Cuse  Cinematography: Darran Tiernan Editor: Jane Rizzo

Cast: Betty Gilpin, Hilary Swank, Ethan Suplee, Emma Roberts, Ike Barinholtz, Glenn Howerton, Amy Madigan, Wayne Duvall, Sturgill Simpson, Reed Birney, Macon Blair

"Twelve strangers wake up in a clearing. They don't know where they are -- or how they got there. In the shadow of a dark internet conspiracy theory, ruthless elitists gather at a remote location to hunt humans for sport. But their master plan is about to be derailed when one of the hunted, Crystal, turns the tables on her pursuers.

HOLD THE DARK (2018)

Directed By: Jeremy Saulnier 
Written By: Macon Blair 
Based On The Book By: William Giraldi 
Cinematography: Magnus Nordenhof Jonck 
Editor: Julia Bloch 


Cast: Jeffrey Wright, James Badge Dale, Alexander Skarsgard, Riley Keough, Beckham crawford, Anabel Kutay, Julian Black Antelope 


Retired naturalist and wolf expert Russell Core journeys to the edge of civilization in northern Alaska at the pleading of Medora Slone, a young mother whose son was killed by a pack of wolves. As Core attempts to help Medora track down the wolves who took her son, a strange and dangerous relationship develops between the two lonely souls. But when Medora's husband Vernon returns home from the Iraq War, the news of his child's death ignites a violent chain of events. As local cop Donald Marium races to stop Vernon's vengeful rampage, Core is forced on a perilous odyssey into the heart of darkness.

THUNDER ROAD (2018)

Written & Directed By: Jim Cummings 
Cinematography By: Lowell A. Mayer 
Editor: Jim Cummings & Brian Vannucci 

Cast: Jim Cummings, Nican Robinson, Kendal Farr, Chelesa Edmundson, Macon Blair, Jocelyn DeBoer, Ammie Leonards 


A police officer faces a personal meltdown following a divorce and the death of his mother.

LOGAN LUCKY (2017)

Directed By: Steven Soderbergh 
Written By: Rebecca Blunt 
Cinematography By: Steven Soderbergh (As Peter Andrews) 
Editor: Steven Soderbergh (As Mary Ann Bernard) 


Cast: Channing Tatum, Daniel Craig, Adam Driver, Katie Holmes, Seth McFarlane, Katherine Waterston, Riley Keough, Jack Quaid, Sebastian Stan, Hillary Swank, Jim O’Heir, David Denman, Brian Gleeson, Dwight Yoakam, Macon Blair 


When Jimmy Logan gets fired, he convinces his brother Clyde and sister Mellie to help him rob the Charlotte Motor Speedway during a NASCAR Race. But they will need the help of Joe Bang, a convicted safe-cracker who is currently doing time. All they have to do is break Joe out, blow the racetrack vault, get away with the cash, return Joe to prison, and get Jimmy to his daughter's beauty pageant on time. What could possibly go wrong? Well, there is the Logan family curse.

THE FLORIDA PROJECT (2017)

Directed & Edited By: Sean Baker 
Written By: Sean Baker & Chris Bergoch 
Cinematography By: Alexis Zabe 

Cast: Bria Vinaite, Brooklynn Prince, Willem Dafoe, Caleb Landry Jones, Mela Murder, Krystal Gordon, Macon Blair 


Set over one summer, the film follows precocious six-year-old Moonee as she courts mischief and adventure with her ragtag playmates and bonds with her rebellious but caring mother, all while living in the shadows of Walt Disney World.

I DON'T FEEL AT HOME IN THIS WORLD ANYMORE (2017)

Written & Directed By: Macon Blair 
Cinematography By: Larkin Seiple 
Editor: Tomas Vengris 


Cast: Melanie Lynskey, Elijah Wood, Gary Anthony Williams, Devon Graye, Jane Levy, David Yow, Derek Mears, Christine Woods, Robert Longstreet 


When a depressed woman is burglarized, she finds a new sense of purpose by tracking down the thieves alongside her obnoxious neighbor. But they soon find themselves dangerously out of their depth against a pack of degenerate criminals.

GREEN ROOM (2016)

Written & Directed By: Jeremy Saulnier 
Cinematography By: Sean Porter 
Editor: Julia Bloch 


Cast: Anton Yelchin, Patrick Stewart, Alia Shawkat, Macon Blair, Imogen Poots, Mark Webber, Joe Cole, Callum Turner, Eric Edelstein, Kai Lennox 


 *Please note that some trivia and facts have been republished from imdb among other sources In this review

BLUE RUIN (2014)

Written, Directed & Cinematography By: Jeremy Saulnier 
Editor: Julia Bloch 

Cast: Macon Blair, Devin Ratray, Amy Hargreaves, Eve Plumb, Kevin Kolack, Stacy Rock