Starring: Joel Murray, Tara Lynne Barr, Mackenzie Brooke Smith
Diagnosed with a tumour, Murray sets off on a murderous rampage, killing those he blames for society's ills while accompanied by like-minded teen Barr.
New Release Review - God Bless America
Starring: Joel Murray, Tara Lynne Barr, Mackenzie Brooke Smith
Diagnosed with a tumour, Murray sets off on a murderous rampage, killing those he blames for society's ills while accompanied by like-minded teen Barr.
New Release Review - Le Havre
Starring: André Wilms, Kati Outinen, Blondin Miguel, Jean-Pierre Darroussin
Affable shoe-shine man Wilms takes up the cause of illegal immigrant Miguel who is seeking passage from the title port to join his mother in London.
Pre-Code Retrospective - Illicit (1931)
Directed by: Archie Mayo
Starring: Barbara Stanwyck, James Rennie, Ricardo Cortez, Joan Blondell, Charles Butterworth, Natalie Moorhead
After allowing herself to be pressured into marriage, liberal society girl Stanwyck's fears of the "sacred institution" are realised.
New Release Review - The Cold Light Of Day
Starring: Henry Cavill, Bruce Willis, Sigourney Weaver, Verónica Echegui
Usually this is where I try to sum up the plot in a neat sentence but seeing as how this movie doesn't have one I'm kind of stuck.
New Release Review - Stockholm Ostra (Stockholm East)
Starring: Mikael Persbrandt, Iben Hjejle, Henrik Norlen, Liv Mjones
Persbrandt becomes romantically involved with Hjejle, unbeknownst to her he is the driver who killed her young daughter in a road accident.
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New Release Review - 4:44 Last Day On Earth
Starring: Willem Dafoe, Shanyn Leigh, Natasha Lyonne
Dafoe and Leigh moap around their New York loft as they await the end of the world, due to arrive at 4:44 the next morning.
New Release Review - Play
Starring: Kevin Vaz, Yannick Diakité, Abdiaziz Hilowle
Based on a series of real life incidents in Gothenburg, Sweden, Ostlund's film tells the story of how a group of young black kids were allowed to consistently mug children in broad daylight.
First Time Watches - March 2012
Blood Runs Cold (2011)
The best I can say about this godawful Norwegian Swedish slasher is that it looks a lot more expensive than the paltry $5000 spent on it.
TV Review - Game Change
Starring: Julianne Moore, Ed Harris, Woody Harrelson, Peter MacNicol, Sarah Paulson, Ron Livingston
Harris and Moore are John McCain and Sarah Palin in this HBO dramatization of their failed election campaign.
New Release Review - The Kid With A Bike
Starring: Thomas Doret, Cécile De France, Jérémie Renier, Egon Di Mateo
Following a chance encounter, hairdresser De France allows wild child Doret to leave his juvenile home and stay with her at the weekends. Upon discovering the child's father,Renier, wants nothing to do with him, she takes him into her care on a permanent basis, battling to keep him on the straight and narrow, and away from local drug dealer Di Mateo.
TV Review - Leprechaun's Revenge
Starring: Billy Zane, William Devane, Courtney Halverson
After plucking a red four leaf clover in the woods, Halverson awakens a centuries old Leprechaun who is intent on stealing all the gold from the local townsfolk.
Pre-Code Retrospective - Safe In Hell (1931)
Starring: Dorothy MacKaill, Donald Cook, Ralf Harolde, Nina Mae McKinney, Morgan Wallace
MacKaill is a prostitute who, thinking herself responsible for the death of a client, flees with the aid of her lover to a remote caribbean island.
New Release Review - Once Upon A Time In Anatolia
Starring: Muhammet Uzuner, Yilmaz Erdogan, Taner Birsel
A bunch of grizzled cops spend the night driving through the Turkish countryside, a couple of murder suspects in tow, as they search for the burial site of their victim.
New Release Review - The Hunger Games
Starring: Jennifer Lawrence, Woody Harrelson, Josh Hutcherson, Elizabeth Banks, Stanley Tucci, Lenny Kravitz, Liam Hemsworth
New Release Review - This Must Be The Place
Starring: Sean Penn, Frances McDormand, Judd Hirsch, David Byrne, Kerry Condon, Eve Hewson
Penn is at a career worst in this pretentious English language debut by acclaimed Italian director Sorrentino.
New Release Review - We Bought A Zoo
Starring: Matt Damon, Scarlet Johansson, Thomas Haden Church, Elle Fanning, Colin Ford
Recently widowed Damon moves his family into a zoo, and just in case you miss that plot point, the title is spoken in dialogue about seven times throughout.
New Release Review - The Devil Inside
Starring: Fernanda Andrade, Simon Quarterman, Evan Helmuth, Ionut Grama, Suzan Crowley
Yet another found footage movie fails to hit the mark.
New Release Review - The Other Side Of Sleep
Starring: Antonia Campbell-Hughes, Sam Keeley, Olwen Fouere
Campbell-Hughes is all that impresses in this pretentious Irish mystery.
New Release Review - Contraband
Starring: Mark Wahlberg, Kate Beckinsale, Giovanni Ribisi, Ben Foster, Lukas Haas
This remake of an Icelandic thriller will leave viewers cold.