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Minnelli May - The Cobweb (1955)

Directed by: Vincente Minnelli
Starring: Richard Widmark, Lauren Bacall, Charles Boyer, Gloria Grahame, Lillian Gish, Fay Wray, Oscar Levant, John Kerr, Susan Strasberg

The issue of new drapes stirs up tension in a psychiatric clinic.

New Release Review - The Raid: Redemption

Directed by: Gareth Evans
Starring: Iko Uwais, Ananda George, Ray Sahetapy

A SWAT team's attempt to storm a druglord's tower block goes horribly wrong as they battle with it's residents.

New Release Review - Get The Gringo aka How I Spent My Summer Vacation

Directed by: Adrian Grunberg
Starring: Mel Gibson, Peter Stormare, Dean Norris, Kevin Hernandez

An American criminal struggles to survive in a huge open air Mexican prison facility.

New Release Review - Jeff Who Lives At Home

Directed by: Jay Duplass, Mark Duplass
Starring: Jason Segel, Ed Helms, Judy Greer, Judy Greer, Rae Dawn Chong

Two bickering brothers(Segel and Helms) are united in their investigation of Helms' wife's infidelity.

New Release Review - Charlie Casanova

Directed by: Terry McMahon 
Starring: Emmett Scanlan, Leigh Arnold, Valeria Bandino

A ruling class sociopath kills a working class girl in a hit and run and uses a deck of playing cards to determine his fate.

New Release Review - Piranha 3DD

Directed by: John Gulager
Starring: Danielle Panabaker, Ving Rhames, David Hasselhoff, Christopher Lloyd, Gary Busey, Chris Zylka

The killer fish from "Piranha 3D" make their way to a newly opened waterpark looking for fresh blood.

Minnelli May - The Bad And The Beautiful (1952)

Directed by: Vincente Minnelli
Starring: Kirk Douglas, Lana Turner, Walter Pidgeon, Dick Powell, Barry Sullivan, Gloria Grahame, Leo G. Carroll, Gilbert Roland, Elaine Stewart, Ivan Triesault

An actress (Turner), writer (Powell), and director (Sullivan) recount their experiences working with ruthless producer Douglas.

Minnelli May - Brigadoon (1954)

Directed by: Vincente Minnelli
Starring: Gene Kelly, Cyd Charisse, Van Johnson, Barry Jones, Elaine Stewart

American tourists Kelly and Johnson stumble across the remote village of Brigadoon in the Scottish wilds, a place that only appears every hundred years. Falling for local girl Charisse, Kelly faces a choice, return to New York or disappear in time with the village.

Minnelli May - Undercurrent (1946)

Directed by: Vincente Minnelli
Starring: Katherine Hepburn, Robert Taylor, Robert Mitchum, Edmund Gwenn, Jayne Meadows

Hepburn begins to suspect her husband, Taylor, has murdered his missing brother, Mitchum, and plans to dispatch her next.

New Release Review - Silent House

Directed by: Chris Kentis, Laura Lau
Starring: Elizabeth Olsen, Adam Trese, Eric Sheffer Stevens

Olsen finds herself trapped in her family's lakeside retreat with strangers who seem to have attacked her father in this remake of the Uruguayan thriller "La Casa Muda".

Minnelli May - An American In Paris (1951)


Directed by: Vincente Minnelli
Starring: Gene Kelly, Leslie Caron, Nina Foch, Oscar Levant, Georges Guétary
Struggling expat American painter Kelly falls for up and coming French dancer Caron, the girlfriend of his friend Guétary.

Pre-Code Retrospective - The Most Dangerous Game (1932)

Directed by: Irving Pichel & Ernest B. Schoedsack
Starring: Joel McCrea, Fay Wray, Leslie Banks, Robert Armstrong

Shipwrecked on a remote island, McCrea and Wray find themselves the prey in an elaborate hunt run by the island's resident psycho, Russian Count Banks.

Great Movie Posters - Vincente Minnelli

Minnelli May - The Band Wagon (1953)

Directed by: Vincente Minnelli
Starring: Fred Astaire, Cyd Charisse, Nanette Fabray, Jack Buchanan, Oscar Levant, James Mitchell 

Astaire is a faded Hollywood star who returns to New York to reignite his broadway career.

First Time Watches - April 2012

Turn Me On 'Dammit (2012)
On paper this sounded like a Norwegian "Welcome To The Dollhouse" but it's much more aimed at a teen audience.

New Release Review - The Avengers

Directed by: Joss Whedon
Starring: Robert Downey Jnr, Mark Ruffalo, Scarlet Johansson, Chris Evans, Chris Hemsworth, Jeremy Renner, Tom Hiddleston, Samuel L Jackson, Stellan Skarsgard, Gwyneth Paltrow, Cobie Smulders

A disparate band of superheroes come together to save the earth from a Norse God and an invading alien army.

New Release Review - Elfie Hopkins

Directed by: Ryan Andrews
Starring: Jaime Winstone, Aneurin Barnard, Rupert Evans, Ray Winstone, Kimberley Nixon

When the inhabitants of a small Welsh village start disappearing, amateur sleuth Winstone suspects her new neighbours and proceeds to investigate.

New Release Review - Salmon Fishing In The Yemen

Directed by: Lasse Hallstrom
Starring: Emily Blunt, Ewan McGregor, Kristin Scott-Thomas, Amr Waked, Tom Mison, Rachael Stirling

The unlikely pairing of Blunt and McGregor team up to help a Yemeni sheik realise his dream of bringing salmon fishing to his land.

New Release Review - Lockout

Directed by: James Mather & Stephen St. Ledger
Starring: Guy Pearce, Maggie Grace, Peter Stormare, Vincent Regan, Joseph Gilgun, Lennie James

Convict Pearce is given a chance to go free after agreeing to rescue the President's daughter from an outer space prison where the inmates have taken control.

New Release Review - Elles

Directed by: Malgorzata Szumowska
Starring: Juliette Binoche, Anaïs Demoustier, Joanna Kulig, Louis-Do de Lencquesaing

Elle columnist Binoche questions her bourgeois existence while researching an article on students who turn to prostitution.