A teenage girl is kidnapped by a disturbed couple in Hounds of Love. Set in 1987 Perth, Australia, Vicki Maloney (Ashleigh Cummings) sneaks out of her mother’s house to attend a party. On the way, she is approached by the couple of John White (Stephen Curry) and his wife Evelyn (Emma Booth), who offer to drive Vicki…
Danny Boyle returns to the characters from Irvine Welsh’s novels two decades later in T2 Trainspotting. After living in Amsterdam, Mark Renton (Ewan McGregor) returns to Edinburgh twenty years after stealing the money from a drug deal and is reunited with his old friends Daniel “Spud” Murphy (Ewen Bremner) and Simon “Sick Boy” Williamson (Jonny Lee Miller), who…
A group of four young radicals form a revolutionary cell in Those Who Make Revolution Halfway Only Dig Their Own Graves. In the aftermath of mass student protests, Giutizia (Charlotte Aubin), Tumulto (Laurent Bélanger), Ordine Nuovo (Emmanuelle Lussier Martinez), and Klas Batalo (Gabrielle Tremblay) move in together in a dingy apartment, as they plan their violent revolution against society….
A self-destructive womanizer beings to change his ways in Jackie Boy. Jack (Alino Giraldi) is a man in a small town, who regularly indulges himself in drinking, drugs, and one night stands. However, when he meets Jasmine (Shannon Coulter), Jack is inspired to turn a new leaf and distance himself from his equally self-destructive friend…
The comedy film The Birder focuses on Ron Spencer (Tom Cavanagh), a bird-loving high school teacher, who is expecting to be named “Head of Ornithology” at the local birding park and spend the summer bonding with his teenage daughter Samantha (Cassidy Renee). However, Ron is shocked when the Park President (Fred Willard) instead gives the…
It is the epic conclusion of the saga of the Wolfpack with The Hangover Part III. After the death of his father, Alan (Zach Galifianakis) has fully gone off the deep end. This results in Phil (Bradley Cooper), Stu (Ed Helms), and Doug (Justin Bartha) staging an intervention and they prepare to drive Alan to…
The Waiting Room is a cinéma vérité-style documentary about a public hospital in California. The film just shows the activity at the hospital over the course of the day. The only real narration comes in the form of voiceovers from the staff and patients. At the very least, the film is an interesting look at…
The Norwegian action-thriller Headhunters features a relatively simple story. Roger Brown (Aksel Hennie) is a corporate headhunter, who moonlights as an art thief. He comes across a valuable painting that seems to permanently end his financial woes, however in the aftermath of this latest theft, he finds himself (literally) hunted by the painting’s owner Clas Greve (Game of Throne‘s Nikolaj Coster-Waldau). I…
Let me start by saying that I thought that Shame was a really good film. The film does have very strong sexual content, which makes it a little difficult to watch at times (and it’s not really passive entertainment). That said, I thought that overall the film was absolutely enthralling, with excellent performances by Michael Fassbender…
The busy weekend involving both my birthday and Easter has prevented me from posting my thought on this film until now. At the very least I can say that this was a funny film, even though it was clear that Seth Rogen‘s character was a bi-polar sociopath and you technically shouldn’t be laughing at the…
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