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    Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan’s Hope

    Directed by Morgan Spurlock
    Produced by Jeremy Chilnick, Matthew Galkin, Spurlock & Thomas Tull
    Written by Jeremy Chilnik, Whedon & Spurlock
    Released by Wrekin Hill Entertainment
    USA. 88 min. Rated PG-13
    With Joss Whedon, Frank Miller, Kevin Smith, Eli Roth, Robert Kirkman, Stan Lee, Harry Knowles, Seth Green and Seth Rogen
    For the first time in his career as a documentary […]

    By |April 11th, 2012|Horror, Pop Culture, Sci-fi, Top Picks|0 Comments

      Brake

      Directed by Gabe Torres
      Written by Timothy Mannion
      Produced by Torres, James Walker & Nathan West
      Released by IFC Films
      USA. 92 min.  Rated R
      With Stephen Dorff, Chyler Leigh, Pruitt Taylor Vince, J R Bourne, Tom Berenger, Bobby Tomberlin, Kali Rocha & King Orba
      At the start of Brake, Secret Service agent Jeremy Reins (Stephen Dorff) wakes up to find […]

      By |March 29th, 2012|Psychological thriller|0 Comments

        Detachment

        Directed by Tony Kaye
        Written by Carl Lund
        Produced by Austin Stark, Benji Kohn, Bingo Gubelmann, Greg Shapiro, Lund & Chris Papavasiliou
        Released by Tribeca Film
        USA. 100 min. Not rated
        With Adrien Brody, Marcia Gay Harden, Christina Hendricks, William Petersen, Bryan Cranston, Tim Blake Nelson, Betty Kaye, Sami Gayle, Lucy Liu, Blythe Danner & James Caan
        Tony Kaye isn’t a […]

        By |March 16th, 2012|Drama|0 Comments

          Good For Nothing

          Written & Directed by Mike Wallis
          Produced by Wallis & Inge Rademeyer
          Released by Screen Media Films
          New Zealand. 92 min. Rated R
          With Cohen Holloway, Inge Rademeyer, Jon Pheloung, Richard Thompson & Toa Waaka
          According to the press notes, the filmmaking debut by Mike Wallis is not only the first Western to be shot entirely in New Zealand, but […]

          By |March 9th, 2012|Western|0 Comments

            Rampart

            Directed by Oren Moverman
            Produced by Lawrence Inglee, Clark Peterson, by Ben Foster & Ken Kao
            Written by James Ellroy & Moverman
            Released by Millenium Entertainment
            USA. 112 min. Rated R
            With Woody Harrelson, Robin Wright, Cynthia Nixon, Anne Heche, Sigourney Weaver, Ben Foster, Ned Beatty, Steve Buscemi, Ice Cube & Brie Larson
            A dirty cop in Los Angeles sounds about […]

            By |February 24th, 2012|Drama, DVD/Streaming/On Demand|0 Comments

              3

              Written & Directed by Tom Tykwer
              Produced by Stefan Arndt
              Released by Strand Releasing
              German with English subtitles
              Germany. 119 min. Not rated
              Starring: Sophie Rois, Sebastian Schipper & Devid Striesow
              It’s hard to put a fresh spin on infidelity dramas nowadays. Yet they are still effective, maybe one of the most shocking and gripping forms of drama when in the […]

              By |February 12th, 2012|DVD/Streaming/On Demand, Foreign, GLBT|0 Comments

                The Front Line

                Directed by Hun Jang
                Written by Park Sang-yeon
                Produced by Robert Lee & Kim Hyun-chol
                Released by Well Go USA Entertainment
                South Korea. 133 min. Not rated
                With Shin Ha-kyun, Ko Soo, Lee Je-hun, Lee David, Ko Chang-seok & Ryu Seung-soo

                War is hell. Yes, yes, we know, we’ve seen it in movies so many times that it’s tattooed on our […]

                By |January 20th, 2012|Asian, War|0 Comments

                  Corman’s World: Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel

                  Produced & Directed by Alex Stapleton
                  Produced by Stone Douglass, Mickey Barold, Stapleton, Izabela Frank & Jeff Frey
                  Written by Stapleton & Gregory Locklear
                  Released by Anchor Bay Films
                  USA. 90 min. Rated R
                  With Jack Nicholson, Martin Scorsese, Ron Howard, Joe Dante, Dick Miller, Robert De Niro, Pam Grier, David Carradine, Peter Bogdanovich & Eli Roth
                  Roger Corman was an […]

                  By |December 16th, 2011|Documentary, Film History|0 Comments

                    Knuckle

                    Shot, Produced & Directed by Ian Palmer
                    Released by Arc Entertainment
                    Ireland. 97 min. Rated R

                     

                    From the poster for Knuckle, one might get the impression that this is another underdog drama like The Fighter or Warrior. Not so. This is a documentary and is not about underdogs, per se. It’s about blue-collar Irish folk who live in […]

                    By |December 8th, 2011|Documentary, Top Picks|0 Comments