New Release Review - Red Lights

Directed by: Rodrigo Cortes

Starring: Sigourney Weaver, Robert De Niro, Cillian Murphy, Toby Jones, Elizabeth Olsen, Joely Richardson

Skeptic investigators Weaver and Murphy focus their attention on exposing celebrity faith healer De Niro but evidence mounts that he may not be the fraud they believe him to be.

New Release Review - Cosmopolis

Directed by: David Cronenberg

Starring: Robert Pattinson, Juliette Binoche, Sarah Gadon, Mathieu Amalric, Jay Baruchel, Samantha Morton, Paul Giamatti

Billionaire Pattinson insists on being driven across a nightmarish Manhattan to receive a haircut from his regular barber.

1975 - The Year I Made Contact

The year I was born, 1975, was arguably the greatest year in cinema history, fitting then I turned out to be so obsessed with the medium. Here are my ten favorite movies from that great year.

New Release Review - Dawn Rider

Directed by: Terry Miles

Starring: Christian Slater, Jill Hennessy, Donald Sutherland, Lochlyn Munro, G Michael Gray

Former outlaw Slater returns to his home town to find it under siege by a gang of masked bandits. Unbeknownst to Slater, his friend Munro is said gang's leader and responsible for the murder of his father.

New Release Review - The Pact

Directed by: Nicholas McCarthy

Starring: Caity Lotz, Casper Van Dien, Agnes Bruckner

Lotz returns to her childhood home for her mother's funeral only to encounter a supernatural presence which may be responsible for the disappearance of her sister and friend.

New Release Review - Prometheus

Directed by: Ridley Scott

Starring: Noomi Rapace, Michael Fassbender, Charlize Theron, Idris Elba, Guy Pearce, Logan Marshall-Green, Sean Harris, Rafe Spall, Kate Dickie, Benedict Wong

An exploratory team sets off into space in 2093 to investigate Rapace's theory that mankind was created by an alien race.

Pre-Code Retrospective - A Free Soul (1931)

Directed by: Clarence Brown

Starring: Norma Shearer, Leslie Howard, Lionel Barrymore, Clark Gable, James Gleason, Lucy Beaumont

Alcoholic lawyer Barrymore gets mobster Gable off a murder charge but is none too happy when his daughter Shearer becomes romantically involved with him.

Great Movie Posters - Superman

First Time Watches - May 2012

Babycall (2012)

Don't drink the Kool-Aid: how anticipation has murdered reflection

New Release Review - Men In Black 3

Directed by: Barry Sonnenfield

Starring: Will Smith, Josh Brolin, Tommy Lee Jones, Emma Thompson, Jemaine Clement, Alice Eve

Smith travels back in time to 1969 to stop an escaped alien convict, Clement, from assassinating a young Jones, played by Brolin.

New Release Review - Moonrise Kingdom

Directed by: Wes Anderson

Starring: Jared Gilman, Kara Hayward, Bruce Willis, Edward Norton, Bill Murray, Harvey Keitel, Tilda Swinton, Frances McDormand, Jason Schwartzman

Adolescents Gilman and Hayward flee from their New England town, pursued by local sheriff Willis and scout leader Norton.

Minnelli May - The Four Horsemen Of The Apocalypse (1962)

Directed by: Vincente Minnelli

Starring: Glenn Ford, Ingrid Thulin, Charles Boyer, Lee J Cobb, Paul Lukas, Yvette Mimieux, Karl Boehm, Paul Henreid

Ford, an Argentine playboy living in WWII Paris, embarks on an affair with Thulin and becomes a spy for the French resistance.

New Release Review - Sleepless Night

Directed by: Frédéric Jardin

Starring: Tomer Sisley, Serge Riaboukine, Julien Boisselier, Joey Starr, Lizzie Brocheré

A crooked cop (Sisley) attempts to retrieve his kidnapped son who is being held in a vast Parisian nightclub by gangster Riaboukine.

New Release Review - Two Days In New York

Directed by: Julie Delpy

Starring: Julie Delpy, Chris Rock, Albert Delpy, Kate Burton, Dylan Baker, Daniel Bruhl, Alexia Landeau, Alex Nahon

French photographer Delpy is living with her new boyfriend (Rock) when her father (Albert Delpy), sister (Landeau), and sister's friend (Nahon) come to visit her new home in New York.

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.