Good Kill, 2014. Directed by Andrew Niccol. Starring Ethan Hawke, January Jones, Zoe Kravitz, Bruce Greenwood, and Jake Abel.   SYNOPSIS: A troubled Air Force officer (Ethan Hawke) charged with directing drone strikes enters a moral minefield as the rationale for targeting purported terrorists becomes questionable. A former fighter pilot is grounded doing drone missions from the […]

October Gale, 2014. Directed by Ruba Nadda. Starring Patricia Clarkson, Scott Speedman, Tim Roth, and Callum Keith Rennie.   SYNOPSIS: A doctor takes in a mysterious man when he washes ashore at her remote cottage with a gunshot wound and soon discovers that his would-be killer is on his way to finish the job. A doctor grieving […]

Samba, 2014. Directed by Olivier Nakache, and Eric Toledano. Starring Charlotte Gainsbourg, Omar Sy, Tahar Rahim, and Izia Higelin.   SYNOPSIS: A recent migrant to France fights to stay in his adopted country with the help of a rookie immigration worker. An illegal immigrant named Samba who has been caught by French authorities is assisted by a […]

Flickering Myth sat down with Seth Rogen to talk about Bad Neighbours, now today on DVD… FM: How did you get involved with this project? SR: A few years ago, Evan Goldberg and I had been trying to find something to work on with the writers, Andrew J. Cohen and Brendan O’Brien, and they came […]

1001 Grams, 2014. Directed by Bent Hamer. Starring Ane Dahl Torp, Laurent Stocker, Stein Winge, Hildegun Riise, Per Christian Ellefsen, Peter Hudson, Dinara Droukarova, Christian Erickson, Didier Flamand, and Magne Håvard Brekke. SYNOPSIS: A recently divorced, work-obsessed lab technician finds herself encountering a whole new world of experience when she attends an important scientific conference in Paris. […]

Pawn Sacrifice, 2014. Directed by Edward Zwick. Starring Tobey Maguire, Peter Sarsgaard, Liev Schreiber, and Michael Stuhlbarg. SYNOPSIS: American chess phenomenon Bobby Fischer squares off against his Russian rival Boris Spassky in the 1972 “Match of the Century” in Reykjavik, Iceland.   Archival news footage talks about the disappearance of Bobby Fischer who is competing for the […]

Red Army, 2014. Directed by Gabe Polsky. Starring Slava Fetisov, Vladislav Tretiak, Scotty Bowman, and Vladimir Pozner.   SYNOPSIS: Following the Soviet Union during the height of the Cold War, Red Army tells the story of the nation’s famed Red Army hockey team through the eyes of its captain Slava Fetisov. During the Cold War the Soviet […]

’71, 2014. Directed by Yann Demange. Starring Jack O’Connell, Paul Anderson, Richard Dormer, Sean Harris, Barry Keoghan, Martin McCann, Charlie Murphy, and Sam Reid.   SYNOPSIS: In the divided city of Belfast at the height of The Troubles, a rookie British soldier finds himself separated from his unit and lost in IRA-controlled territory. British soldiers are put […]

Big Game, 2014. Directed by Jalmari Helander. Starring Samuel L. Jackson, Onni Tommila, Ray Stevenson, Mehmet Kurtulus, Victor Garber, Ted Levine, Felicity Huffman, and Jim Broadbent. SYNOPSIS: Trapped in the wilderness after Air Force One is forced down by a terrorist attack, the President of the United States must rely on the survival skills of a 13-year-old […]

Nightcrawler, 2014. Directed by Dan Gilroy. Starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Rene Russo, Bill Paxton, Ann Cusack, Kevin Rahm, Anne McDaniels, Riz Ahmed and Michael Hyatt. SYNOPSIS: A young man stumbles upon the underground world of L.A. freelance crime journalism. A security guard discovers a chain fence being cut by a mysterious individual who assaults him for his watch.  The thief in question is Lou […]