New Release Review - Compliance
Directed by: Craig Zobel
Starring: Ann Dowd, Dreama Walker, Pat Healy, Bill Camp, Philip Ettinger, Ashlie Atkinson
Posing as a police officer, sociopath Healy calls a fast food restaurant and accuses a staff member of stealing from a customer.
New Release Review - Premium Rush
Directed by: David Koepp
Starring: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Michael Shannon, Dania Ramirez, Wole Parks, Jamie Chung
Manhattan bike courier Gordon-Levitt finds himself being chased by crooked cop Shannon who desperately needs the mysterious ticket he has been hired to deliver to Chinatown.
Superman Summer - Superman 4: The Quest For Peace (1987)
Starring: Christopher Reeve, Gene Hackman and Margot Kidder, Jackie Cooper, Marc McClure, Jon Cryer, Sam Wanamaker, Mariel Hemingway, Mark Pillow, Jim Broadbent
Using a strand of Superman's hair, Lex Luthor creates Nuclear Man.
New Release Review - The Possession
Directed by: Ole Bornedal
Starring: Natasha Calis, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Kyra Sedgwick, Matisyahu, Grant Show, Madison Davenport
After purchasing a wooden box at a yard sale, Morgan's ten year old daughter Calis becomes possessed by a Dybbuk, a spirit from Jewish folklore.
New Release Review - Berberian Sound Studio
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Directed by: Peter Strickland
Starring: Toby Jones, Tonia Sotiropoulou, Cosimo Fusco, Suzy Kendall, Antonio Mancino, Susanna Cappellaro
Mild mannered sound technician Jones becomes increasingly disturbed while working on an Italian horror film.
New Release Review - Lola Versus
Directed by: Daryl Wein
Starring: Greta Gerwig, Zoe Lister Jones, Hamish Linklater, Joel Kinnaman, Bill Pullman, Debra Winger, Ebon Moss-Bachrach
Gerwig reassesses her love-life after her fiance Kinnaman walks away from the relationship.
Superman Summer - Supergirl (1984)
Directed by: Jeannot Szwarc
Starring: Helen Slater, Faye Dunaway, Peter O'Toole, Peter Cook, Marc McClure, Hart Bochner, Mia Farrow, Brenda Vaccaro, Maureen Teefy
Superman's cousin Kara (Slater) travels to earth to retrieve a mystical orb which has fallen into the hands of a witch (Dunaway).
New Release Review - VHS
Directed by: Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, David Bruckner, Tyler Gillett, Justin Martinez, Glenn McQuaid, Joe Swanberg, Chad Villella, Ti West, Adam Wingard
Starring: Calvin Reeder, Lane Hughes, Adam Wingard, Hannah Fierman, Mike Donlan, Joe Sykes
Anthology of six horror stories told from a found footage perspective.
Dead Format Month - 35mm
Photography enthusiast John Saltwell looks back fondly on a format which, after over a century in existence, is now becoming little more than a nostalgic memory.
New Release Review - Total Recall
Directed by: Len Wiseman
Starring: Colin Farrell, Kate Beckinsale, Jessica Biel, Bokeem Woodbine, Bryan Cranston, Bill Nighy, John Cho
Blue collar worker Farrell visits Rekall, a company who implant their clients with false memories, and discovers a past he was unaware of.
First Time Watches - August 2012
Dolemite (1975)
Blaxploitation icon Rudy Ray Moore made a bunch of trashy movies in the seventies, starting here where he plays a convict freed to help take down a drug cartel.
New Release Review - Shadow Dancer
Directed by: James Marsh
Starring: Clive Owen, Andrea Riseborough, Gillian Anderson, Aidan Gillen, Domhnall Gleeson, David Wilmot
IRA terrorist Riseborough is recruited by Owen as an informer.
New Release Review - To Rome With Love
Directed by: Woody Allen
Starring: Woody Allen, Penélope Cruz, Jesse Eisenberg, Judy Davis, Flavio Parenti, Roberto Benigni, Alison Pill, Alessandro Tiberi, Alessandra Mastronardi, Alec Baldwin, Carol Alt, Greta Gerwig, Ellen Page, Ornella Muti
Four comedic stories set in the Eternal City.
Superman Summer - Superman 3 (1983)
Directed by: Richard Lester
Starring: Christopher Reeve, Richard Pryor, Robert Vaughan, Annie Ross, Pamela Stephenson, Annette O'Toole, Gavan O'Herlihy, Jackie Cooper, Margot Kidder, Marc McClure
Computer wiz Pryor is hired by evil businessman Vaughan to build a computer capable of fulfilling his dreams of world domination.
New Release Review - The Watch
Directed by: Akiva Schaffer
Starring: Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn, Jonah Hill, Richard Ayoade, Rosemarie DeWitt, Will Forte, R Lee Ermey
Area busybody Stiller puts together a neighborhood watch outfit which soon finds itself battling aliens.
Superman Summer - Superman 2 (1980)
Directed by: Richard Lester / Richard Donner
Starring: Gene Hackman, Christopher Reeve, Margot Kidder, Ned Beatty, Jackie Cooper, Terence Stamp, Sarah Douglas, Jack O'Halloran, Valerie Perrine, Marc McClure, EG Marshall
The three intergalactic criminals imprisoned by Jor-El arrive on Earth and use their powers to rule the planet.
New Release Review - 360
Directed by: Fernando Meirelles
Starring: Rachel Weisz, Jude Law, Anthony Hopkins, Lucia Siposová, Gabriela Marcinkova, Johannes Krisch, Jamel Debbouze, Vladimir Vdovichenkov, Maria Flor, Ben Foster
An examination of relationships told through interconnecting stories spanning the globe.
New Release Review - The Wedding Video
Directed by: Nigel Cole
Starring: Lucy Punch, Miriam Margolyes, Robert Webb, Rufus Hound, Harriet Walter
The events leading to Punch and Webb's wedding are told through footage shot by best man Webb.