New Release Review - Margaret

Directed by: Kenneth Lonergan

Starring: Anna Paquin, J. Smith Cameron, Jeannie Berlin, Matt Damon, Mark Ruffalo, Kenneth Lonergan, Jean Reno, Kieran Culkin, Alison Janney, Olivia Thirlby

Following her involvement in a traffic accident which results in a pedestrian's death, high school student Paquin embarks on a crusade to punish the bus driver she initially covered up for.

New Release Review - The Hunter

Directed by: Daniel Nettheim

Starring: Willem Dafoe, Sam Neill, Morgana Davies, Frances O'Connor

Posing as a scientist sent to Tasmania to investigate the existence of the last Tasmanian tiger, Dafoe is actually a mercenary on an assignment to hunt it down for a dubious security firm.

New Release Review - Seeking a Friend for the End of the World

Directed by: Lorene Scafaria

Starring: Steve Carell, Keira Knightley, Adam Brody, Connie Britton

With the planet due to be destroyed by an approaching meteor, Carell sets off with neighbour Knightley to be reunited with the love of his life.

New Release Review - Magic Mike

Directed by: Steven Soderbergh

Starring: Channing Tatum, Alex Pettyfer, Olivia Munn, Cody Horn, Matthew McConaughey

Male stripper Tatum takes Pettyfer under his wing and falls for his disapproving sister.

Jurassic July - The Land Unknown (1957)

Directed by: Virgil W. Vogel

Starring: Jock Mahoney, Shirley Patterson, William Reynolds, Henry Brandon, Douglas Kennedy, Phil Harvey

Four members of an Antarctic expedition are stranded in a volcanic crater, home to creatures long thought extinct.

Jurassic July - Unknown Island (1948)

Directed by: Jack Bernhard

Starring: Virginia Grey, Phillip Reed, Richard Denning, Barton MacLane

Grey and Reed hire gruff ship's captain MacLane to take them to a remote Pacific island rumored to be inhabited by dinosaurs.

Jurassic July - Jurassic Park 3 (2001)

Directed by: Joe Johnston

Starring: Sam Neill, William H. Macy, Téa Leoni,  Alessandro Nivola

Macy and Leoni are a divorced couple who trick Neill into helping look for their son on the infamous Isla Sorna.

Jurassic July - The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)

Directed by: Steven Spielberg

Starring: Jeff Goldblum, Julianne Moore, Pete Postlethwaite, Vince Vaughn, Peter Stormare, Richard Attenborough, Arliss Howard, Richard Schiff, Vanessa Lee Chester

Goldblum sets off to retrieve girlfriend Moore from a second dinosaur infested island.

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New Release Review - Friends With Kids

Directed by: Jennifer Westfeldt
Starring: Jennifer Westfeldt, Adam Scott, Maya Rudolph, Jon Hamm, Kristen Wiig, Chris O'Dowd, Megan Fox, Edward Burns

Platonic buddies Westfeldt and Scott decide to raise a child together outside the usual romantic relationship.

New Release Review - The Amazing Spider-Man

Directed by: Marc Webb

Starring: Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone,Rhys Ifans, Sally Field, Martin Sheen, Denis Leary, Irrfan Khan, Campbell Scott, Embeth Davidtz, C. Thomas Howell

While searching for clues to his father's disappearance, high school student Garfield is bitten by a radioactive spider and gains super-powers.

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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.

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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.