Werner Herzog’s newest effort tackles another vast subject: the human brain.

There is room for big, loud, dumb expensive movies in the world, but Michael Bay, you just got schooled on how to make a disaster flick by the Norwegian upstarts behind The Wave, which is a hell of a fun ride.

Directed by Robert Berger, Patrick Daniels & Karlyn Michelson Written by Berger, Daniels & Gregory Produced by Caterina Bartha, Berger & Daniels Released by Collective: Unconscious & 3-Legged Dog USA. 80 min. Not rated With Patrick Daniels, Irving Gregory, Noel Dinneen, Sam Zuckerman, Debbie Troche & Nora Woolley In recent years, the (over)use of 3-D […]

Written & Directed by J. C. Chandor Produced by Neal Dodson, Anna Gerb, Justin Nappi & Teddy Schwarzman Released by Lionsgate/Roadside Attractions USA. 107 min. PG-13 With Robert Redford This steadily absorbing man-adrift-on-a-damaged-sailboat saga has possibly the three most suspenseful sequences of the year and in many ways blows another survival-against-the odds-odyssey, Gravity, out of […]

Produced & Directed by Nick Ryan Written by Mark Monroe Released by Sundance Selects Ireland/UK/USA/Switzerland. 99 min. Rated R In early August 2008, 11 of the 18 mountain climbers who reached the top of K2, the world’s second highest peak, died during the descent, which is regarded as the deadliest 48 hours on the Pakistani […]

Directed by Nicolás López Produced by Eli Roth, Brian Oliver & Miguel Asensio Llamas Written by Eli Roth, Nicolás López & Guillermo Amoedo Released by Radius-TWC English & Spanish with English subtitles USA/Chile. 90 min. Rated R With Lorenza Izzo, Nicolás Martinéz, Eli Roth, Natasha Yarovenko, Ariel Levy & Andrea Osvárt In Aftershock, Hostel mastermind […]

Written & Directed by Todd Berger Produced by Kevin M. Brennan, Jeff Grace, Gordon Bijelonic & Datari Turner Released by Oscilloscope Laboratories USA. 88 min. Not rated With Julia Stiles, David Cross, America Ferrera, Erinn Hayes, Jeff Grace, Rachel Boston & Kevin M. Brennan It’s a Disaster is structured around a clever conceit: tensions at […]

Directed by J. A. Bayona Produced by Belén Atienza, Álvaro Augustin, Enrique López-Lavigne & Ghislain Barrois Written by Sergio G. Sánchez Released by Summit Entertainment Spain. 114 min. Rated PG-13 With Naomi Watts, Ewan McGregor & Tom Holland The Impossible is promoted as a true story of one family’s harrowing experience during the Indian Ocean […]