Directed by Ben Wheatley Produced by Claire Jones & Andre Starke Written by Wheatley & Amy Jump Released by Magnolia Pictures UK. 95 min. Not Rated With Neil Maskell, Harry Simpson, MyAnna Buring, Michael Smiley, Emma Fryer & Struan Rodger British director Ben Wheatley’s heady genre mashup Kill List is how midnight movies are supposed […]
Directed & Photographed by Gianfranco Rosi Produced by Serge Lalou & Gianfranco Rosi Original story by Charles Bowden Released by Icarus Films Spanish with English subtitles USA/France. 84 min. Not rated As many great filmmakers know, the suggestion of violence is often more powerful than seeing it. A hint, a moment, or a fragment gives […]
Edited & Directed by Gerardo Naranjo Written by Naranjo & Mauricio Katz Produced by Pablo Cruz Released by Fox International Productions Spanish, with English subtitles Mexico. 113 min. Rated R With Stephanie Sigman, Noe Hernández & Lakshmi Picazo Is nothing sacred? In Gerardo Naranjo’s Mexico of Miss Bala, the answer is a blunt no. Drug […]
Directed by David Fincher Produced by Scott Rudin, Ole Sondberg, Soren Stærmose & Ceán Chaffin Written by Steven Zaillian, based on the novel by Stieg Larsson Released by Columbia Pictures/Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures USA/Sweden/UK/Germany. 158 min. Rated R With: Daniel Craig, Rooney Mara, Christopher Plummer, Stellan Skarsgard, Steven Berkoff, Robin Wright, Yorick van Wageningen, Geraldine James, Joely […]
Written & Directed by Takeshi Kitano Produced by Masayuki Mori & Takio Yoshida Released by Magnet Releasing Japanese with English subtitles Japan. 109 min. Rated R With Beat Takeshi, Kippei Shiina, Ryo Kase, Tomokazu Miura, Jun Kunimura, Renji Ishibashi & Tetta Sugimoto The bleakly funny Japanese gangster drama Outrage came out in its home country […]
Directed by Marius Holst Produced by Karin Julsrud, Antoine de Clermont-Tonnerre, Ewa Puszczynska, Mathilde Dedye & Johannes Ahlund Written by Dennis Magnusson Released by Film Movement Norwegian with English subtitles Norway/France/Sweden/Poland. 115 min. Not rated With Stellan Skarsgard, Benjamin Helstad, Kirstoffer Joner, Trond Nilssen, Ellen Dorrit Petersen & Magnus Langlete There is no way that […]
Written & Directed by William Monahan, based on the novel by Ken Bruen Produced by Graham King, Monahan, Tim Headington & Quentin Curtis Released by IFC Films UK. 104 Mins. Rated R With Colin Farrell, Keira Knightly, David Thewlis, Ben Chaplin, Anna Friel, Eddie Marsan & Ray Winstone Just out of prison, Mitchel (Colin Farrell) […]
Written & Directed by Dito Montiel Produced by John Thompson, Holly Wiersma & Montiel Released by Anchor Bay Films USA. 90 min. Rated R With Channing Tatum, Tracy Morgan, Katie Holmes, Ray Liotta, Juliette Binoche, Jake Cherry, Brian Gilbert & Al Pacino Dito Montiel’s forte is the gritty dramatic thriller, with meaty New York City […]
Produced & Directed by Steve Mims & Joe Bailey Jr. Released by Truly Indie/Yokel USA. 102 min. Not rated A courtroom truism is when the facts are against you, argue the law, when the law is against you, argue the facts. But when a documentary about injustice piles on the facts, it still needs to […]