Breaking news this evening from the world of Marvel, with word that the studio has finally found its Doctor Strange in the tall, British form of Benedict Cumberbatch (Sherlock, Star Trek Into Darkness). Rumours have been circulating that the thesp was going to be involved in Star Wars: Episode VII in some capacity, but now […]

Foxcatcher, 2014. Directed by Bennett Miller. Starring Steve Carell, Channing Tatum, Mark Ruffalo, Sienna Miller, Anthony Michael Hall, and Vanessa Redgrave. SYNOPSIS: Based on the true story of Mark Schultz, an Olympic wrestler whose relationship with sponsor John du Pont and brother Dave Schultz would lead to unlikely circumstances. Bennett Miller has slowly begun his […]

Wild, 2014. Directed by Jean-Marc Valée. Starring Reese Witherspoon, Laura Dern, Gaby Hoffman, Thomas Sadoski, Brian Van Holt and W. Earl Brown. SYNOPSIS: A chronicle of one woman’s 1,100-mile solo hike undertaken as a way to recover from a recent catastrophe. After his Oscar nominated efforts for the superb Dallas Buyers Club, director Jean-Marc Vallée […]

The Other Woman, 2014. Directed by Nick Cassavetes. Starring Cameron Diaz, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Leslie Mann, Kate Upton and Taylor Kinney. SYNOPSIS: After discovering her boyfriend is married, Carly soon meets the wife he’s been betraying. And when yet another love affair is discovered, all three women team up to plot revenge on the three-timing S.O.B. […]

Gone Girl, 2014. Directed by David Fincher Starring Ben Affleck, Rosamund Pike, Neil Patrick Harris, Tyler Perry, Carrie Coon, Emily Ratajkowski and Kim Dickens. SYNOPSIS: With his wife’s disappearance having become the focus of an intense media circus, a man sees the spotlight turned on him when it’s suspected that he may not be innocent. […]

Queen & Country, 2014. Written and Directed by John Boorman. Starring Callum Turner, Caleb Landry Jones, Pat Shortt, David Thewlis, Richard E. Grant, Vanessa Kirby and Tamsin Egerton. SYNOPSIS: An Englishman who grew up in London during World War II joins the military to fight in the Korean War. In 1987, Hope and Glory was […]

10,000Km, 2014. Directed by Carlos Marques-Marcet. Starring Natalie Tena and David Verdaguer. SYNOPSIS: Two people in love, two apartments – one in Barcelona and another on in Los Angeles – and the images of their past, present and future. Can love survive 10,000km? On paper, 10,000Km (or Long Distance) sounds like your run-of-the-mill romance film, […]

Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films, 2014. Written and Directed by Mark Hartley. SYNOPSIS: A one-of-a-kind story about two-of-a-kind men who (for better or worse) changed film forever. “We’re Cannon Films, and we’re dynamite!”  When the Israeli partnership of Menahem Golan and Yorum Globus bought Cannon in 1978, it was a near-bankrupt […]

Black Coal, Thin Ice, 2014. Directed by Yi’nan Diao. Starring Fan Liao, Lun Mei Gwei, Xuebing Wang, Jinchun Wang and Ailei Yu. SYNOPSIS: An ex cop and his ex partner decide to follow up on investigation of a series of murders that ended their careers and shamed them, when identical murders begin again. Winner of […]