New Release Review - Storage 24
Directed by: Johannes Roberts
Starring: Noel Clarke, Colin O'Donoghue, Antonia Campbell-Hughes, Laura Haddock, Ned Dennehy
Following a plane crash, several people are trapped in a storage facility with a violent alien being.
New Release Review - Your Sister's Sister
Directed by: Lynn Shelton
Starring: Mark Duplass, Emily Blunt, Rosemarie DeWitt
Blunt sends Duplass off to her family's island cabin to contemplate his life. There he meets her lesbian sister and ends up drunkenly bedding her.
Jurassic July - Jurassic Park (1993)
Directed by: Steven Spielberg
Starring: Sam Neill, Laura Dern, Richard Attenborough, Jeff Goldblum, Bob Peck, Joseph Mazzello, Ariana Richards, Samuel L. Jackson, Wayne Knight
All hell breaks lose when Attenborough attempts to impress a group of scientists with his island of cloned dinosaurs.
Pre-Code Retrospective - Street Scene (1931)
Directed by: King Vidor
Starring: Sylvia Sidney, William Collier Jr, Estelle Taylor, Beulah Bondi
Tensions run high in a multi-ethnic neighborhood during a New York heatwave.
First Time Watches - June 2012
Tora Tora Tora (1970)
Co-directed in English and Japanese by Richard Fleischer and Kinji Fukasaku, this shows a gripping story doesn't need any relatable characters or trite romances (are you listening Mister Bay?). A cast of some of the best character actors of the era coupled with the elaborate and realistic staging of the Pearl Harbour attack make this compelling viewing. 8/10
New Release Review - Killer Joe
Directed by: William Friedkin
Starring: Matthew McConaughey, Emile Hirsch, Juno Temple, Gina Gershon, Thomas Haden Church
Haden Church and son Hirsch hire crooked cop McConaughey to kill Haden Church's ex-wife for insurance money. In lieu of payment he takes the mentally challenged Temple as a retainer.
Superman Summer - Superman (1948)
Directed by: Spencer Gordon Bennet, Thomas Carr
Starring: Kirk Alyn, Noel Neill, Tommy Bond, Carol Forman, Pierre Watkin
Superman is dispatched to Earth as an infant to avoid the destruction of his home planet krypton. As an adult, his alter-ego, Clark Kent, takes a job at the Daily Planet newspaper in the city of Metropolis. It isn't long before Superman is called into action to avert the evil plans of a villainess known as the Spider Lady.
New Release Review - Brave
Directed by: Mark Andrews, Brenda Chapman, Steve Purcell
Starring: Kelly MacDonald, Billy Connolly, Emma Thompson, Julie Walters, Robbie Coltrane, Craig Ferguson
New Release Review - Chernobyl Diaries
Directed by: Bradley Parker
Starring: Jesse McCartney, Jonathan Sadowski, Olivia Dudley, Ingrid Bolsø Berdal, Dimitri Diatchenko, Devin Kelley, Nathan Phillips
New Release Review - Lay The Favorite
Directed by: Stephen Frears
Starring: Rebecca Hall, Bruce Willis, Vince Vaughn, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Joshua Jackson, Laura Prepon, Frank Grillo, Joel Murray, John Carroll Lynch, Corbin Bernsen
Former stripper Hall becomes involved in the world of Las Vegas bookmakers.
New Release Review - The Five Year Engagement
Directed by: Nicholas Stoller
Starring: Jason Segel, Emily Blunt, Chris Pratt, Alison Brie, David Paymer, Mimi Kennedy, Dakota Johnson
Segel and Blunt's plans to get hitched are repeatedly put on hold as their relationship stagnates.
New Release Review - Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
Directed by: Timur Bekmambetov
Starring: Benjamin Walker, Rufus Sewell, Dominic Cooper, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Anthony Mackie, Erin Wasson, Jimmi SimpsonAmerica's most famous president is re-imagined as a hunter of blood-suckers.
Retro Review - Jaws (1975)
Directed by: Steven Spielberg
Starring: Roy Scheider, Richard Dreyfuss, Robert Shaw, Murray Hamilton, Lorraine Gary
A great white shark terrorises the resort island of Amity.
New Release Review - Bad Blood: The Hatfields & McCoys
Directed by: Fred Olen Ray
Starring: Jeff Fahey, Priscilla Barnes, Christian Slater, Perry King, Tim Abell, Sean Flynn, Kassandra Clementi
Low-budget telling of the legendary feud between the clans Hatfield and McCoy.