"Words jump off the page and into the lives of cafe habitues," Variety wrote of J.P. Allen's aptly titled independent film Coffee and Language, "a single-setting chatfest that avoids almost all the pitfalls of dialogue-heavy urban fare." Beautifully shot in black and white by KC Smith, Coffee's stories within-a-story are centered around a San Francisco coffee house, but, adds Variety, "[what] initially appears to be confining proves to be the caffeinated launching pad for unpredictable sorties into words and ideas at their most liberating and emotionally striking. Spare use of folk-rockish incidental music helps sustain the thrall, and the uniformly strong thesps, like the helmer, are generous with silence and humor without losing the pic's essential tension." You can watch Coffee and Language now or any time via GreenCine's Video-on-Demand.