Nothing Special by Nicole Flattery

Nothing Special by Nicole FlatteryNew York City, 1966. Seventeen year old Mae lives in a run down apartment with her alcoholic mother and her mother's sometimes boyfriend, Mikey. She is turned off by the petty girls at her high school, and the sleazy men she typically meets. When she drops out, she is presented with a job offer that will remake her world entirely: she is hired as a typist for the artist Andy Warhol. Warhol is composing an unconventional novel by recording the

Until his country declares war on hers

a tender look at the impossibility of womanhood

About all the things family can be and all the things it sometimes isn't

the siblings pull apart and come together for a final reckoning

playwright and novelist Brian Lynch

families live in fear

It's also about letting go of the myth of a perfect life in order to achieve genuine emotional maturity

James Hibbard dismantles what it means to be a cyclist and puts it together again in thought-provoking ways - and

Birnam Wood

the environment and the planet as a whole

Kirsten Dunst and Sam Riley

with camera in hand