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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

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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