Strand Releasing Archive

Review by Caitlin Zeigler Alfonso (Haimer Leal) left his family after having trouble accepting the fact that he was losing his home. He returns 17 years later when his son becomes very ill. The wife he left behind, Alicia (Hilda Ruiz) and ill son, ...Read More

Lambert is a recovering sex addict. He is trying to improve his life and wants nothing more to do with sex without love. Judith, on the other hand, is a sex addict who would jump into bed with just about any man she meets ...Read More

Even the most cynical of people enjoy heartfelt movies that show the triumph of the human spirit. A Borrowed Identity—a film about a young Palestinian Israeli boy named Eyad struggling to fit into a Jewish boarding school—sends audiences on a powerful emotional journey. Director ...Read More

It’s hard to pull off a movie with a bored protagonist. Boredom is, to state the obvious, not very entertaining. So typically a bored protagonist necessitates a lot of screenwriterly interventions to keep things lively — unlikely situations, colorful side characters, high-concept premises (like ...Read More

Tennis Pro — the down-on-their-luck Seattle rock group whose trip to Tokyo forms the basis of Big in Japan’s discursive and threadbare storyline — plays a brand of straightforward power pop that is brisk, punchy, and pretty much instantly forgettable. The same could be ...Read More

Based on true events, Elijah Wood stars as John Malcolm Brinnin, the New York academic who brought Dylan Thomas to America. Actor/co-writer Celyn Jones plays the volatile celebrity poet—tormented by anonymity, alcohol and the abyss—who scandalized the Manhattan literati of the Fifties and challenged ...Read More

Opening on a shot of motorbikes criss-crossing sand dunes set to Suicide’s “Ghost Rider” (“America, America is killing its youth”), Futuro Beach affects an air of fatalist cool that quickly dissipates when one of these bikers dies in the film’s opening minutes, drowning in ...Read More