A Walk Among the Tombstones, 2014.Directed by Scott Frank. Starring Liam Neeson, Dan Stevens, Boyd Holbrook, Sebastian Roché, and Brian “Astro” Bradley.SYNOPSIS:Ex-Policeman Matt Scudder helps criminals find a pair of serial-killers that are torturing and murdering drug-dealer’s wives.Liam Neeson, hunting down dastardly criminals, is something of a pull at the box-office. From Taken to Non-Stop, Neeson seems […]

Chungking Express, 1994.Directed by Wong Kar Wai. Starring Tony Leung, Faye Wong, Takeshi Kaneshiro and Brigette Lin.SYNOPSIS:Two stories reveal the love lives of two different policemen who struggle to find love in Hong Kong.Considered one of the greatest films of the 2000’s, Wong Kar Wai’s In the Mood for Love is a romantic and sensual […]

In Order of Disappearance, 2014.Directed by Hans Petter Moland. Starring Stellan Skarsgård, Birgitte Hjort Sørensen and Kristofer Hivju.SYNOPSIS:A grieving father hunts down those responsible for his sons death.This is a comedy. It’s got an international sensitivity so the humour, though dark and black, is tricky to navigate. In Order of Disappearance, in its white vistas […]

The Boxtrolls, 2014.Directed by Graham Annable and Anthony Stacchi. Starring Isaac Hempstead-Wright, Elle Fanning, Ben Kingsley, Jared Harris, Nick Frost, Simon Pegg, Tracy Morgan, Richard Ayoade and Dee Bradley Baker.SYNOPSIS:Boxtrolls, and human-box-boy ‘Eggs’ need to stop the evil Archibald Snatcher from kidnapping their kind before it’s too late…Despicable Me has a lot to answer for. […]

Night Will Fall, 2014.Directed by André Singer. Contributions from Sidney Bernstein, Stewart McAllister, Richard Crossman and Alfred Hitchcock.SYNOPSIS:Documentary exploring the cameramen, and the footage caught, showing the liberation of concentration camps in 1945. This footage was due to create a documentary, German Concentration Camps Factual Survey (due to be released for the first time this year). It is […]

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (a.k.a. Das Cabinet des Caligari), 1920.Directed by Robert Wiene. Starring Werner Krauss, Conrad Viedt, Friedrich Fehér, Hans Lanser-Rudolff, Hans Heinrich von Twardowski and Lil Dagover.SYNOPSIS:At a local carnival in a small German Town, hypnotist Dr. Caligari presents the somnambulist Cesare, who can purportedly predict the future of curious fairgoers. But at night, the doctor […]

Lucy, 2014Directed by Luc Besson. Starring Scarlett Johansson, Morgan Freeman, Analeigh Tipton, Amr Waked, Choi Min-sik, and Pilou Asbæk.SYNOPSISWhen forced to partake in a drug-dealing operation across countries, student Lucy is harassed and beaten, only to have the drugs seep into her system. Chased by cops and gangsters, Lucy begins to use the deepest, darkest parts of […]

Fast Times at Ridgemont High, 1982Directed by Amy Heckerling. Starring Sean Penn, Judge Reinhold, Phoebe Cates, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Brian Backer and Robert Romanus.SYNOPSISA year in the life of teenagers at Ridgemont High as they fall in love, have sex and smoke their way through school.Fast Times at Ridgemont High is a staple of 1980’s […]

M, 1931.Directed by Fritz Lang. Starring Peter Lorre, Ellen Widmann, Inge Landgut and Otto Wernicke.SYNOPSIS:A child-killer is on the loose. The police can’t seem to track him down and the crime gangs even take the matter into their hands. One man labels the murderer with the letter ‘M’ on his back using chalk, and slowly the culprit […]

The Internet’s Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz, 2014.Directed By Brian Knappenberger. Starring Aaron Swartz, Tim Berners-Lee, Lawrence Lessig and Cory Doctorow.SYNOPSISThe story of programming prodigy and information activist Aaron Swartz. From Swartz’s help in the development of the basic internet protocol RSS to his co-founding of Reddit, his fingerprints are all over the […]