RoboCop, 2014. Directed by José Padilha.Starring Joel Kinnaman, Gary Oldman, Michael Keaton, Samuel L. Jackson, Abbie Cornish, Jackie Earle Haley, and Michael K. Williams. SYNOPSIS: Police officer Alex Murphy suffers horrific injuries in an explosion and is rebuilt and part-robot, part-man in a bid to combat growing levels of crime in Detroit. But RoboCop is […]

Goats, 2012. Directed by Christopher Neil.Starring David Duchovny, Vera Farmiga, Graham Phillips, Minnie Driver, Justin Kirk, Keri Russell and Ty Burrell. SYNOPSIS: Ellis is about to leave his home in Tuscon to begin his freshman year at a prep school; in doing so he faces separation from his mother, whose new-age beliefs control her life, […]

Leon: The Professional, 1994. Directed by Luc Besson.Starring Jean Reno, Gary Oldman, Natalie Portman, and Danny Aiello. SYNOPSIS:Leon (Jean Reno) is a solitary assassin living under the employ of Italian gangster Tony (Danny Aiello). After hideously corrupt DEA agent Norman Stansfield (Gary Oldman) slaughters a mostly innocent family on his floor, he’s forced to take […]

The LEGO Movie, 2014. Directed by Phil Lord and Chris Miller.Featuring the voice talents of Chris Pratt, Will Ferrell, Elizabeth Banks, Will Arnett, Nick Offerman, Alison Brie, Charlie Day, Liam Neeson, Morgan Freeman, Channing Tatum, Jonah Hill and Cobie Smulders. SYNOPSIS: An ordinary LEGO minifigure, mistakenly thought to be the extraordinary MasterBuilder, is recruited to […]

Lift to the Scaffold aka Elevator to the Gallows (France: Ascenseur pour l’échafaud), 1958. Directed by Louis Malle.Starring Jeanne Moreau, Maurice Ronet, Georges Poujouly, Jean Wall and Yori Bertin. SYNOPSIS: A self-assured business man murders his employer, the husband of his adulterer, which unintentionally provokes an ill-fated chain of events. The stuck-in-a-lift plot device grabs […]

Penthouse North, 2013. Directed by Joseph Ruben.Starring Michelle Monaghan, Michael Keaton, Barry Sloane, Andrew W. Walker and Kaniehtiio Horn. SYNOPSIS: A reclusive photojournalist lives quietly in a New York penthouse, until a smooth but sadistic criminal looking for a hidden fortune enters her life. Certain types of films seem to come in cycles. A successful […]

Prisoners, 2013. Directed by Denis Villeneuve.Starring Hugh Jackman, Jake Gyllenhaal, Terrence Howard, Viola Davis, Maria Bello, Melissa Leo, and Paul Dano.   SYNOPSIS:  When Keller Dover’s daughter and her friend go missing, he takes matters into his own hands as the police pursue multiple leads and the pressure mounts. But just how far will this desperate […]

Force of Execution, 2013. Directed by Keoni Waxman.Starring Steven Seagal, Ving Rhames, Danny Trejo and Bren Foster. SYNOPSIS: Alexander Coates’ (Seagal) criminal empire has been good to him – and devastating to his enemies – until his number one hit man, Roman Hurst, messes up what should have been a routine hit. Alexander spares his […]

Dracula: The Dark Prince, 2013. Directed by Pearry Reginald Teo.Starring Luke Roberts, Jon Voight, Kelly Wenham, Ben Robson, Holly Earl and Stephen Hogan. SYNOPSIS: In his quest to find the only weapon powerful enough to destroy him, Dracula (Roberts) falls in love with Alina (Kelly Wenham), a woman who bears a striking resemblance to his […]

Out of the Furnace, 2013. Directed by Scott Cooper.Starring Christian Bale, Woody Harrelson, Casey Affleck, Zoe Saldana, Sam Shepard, Willem Dafoe and Forest Whitaker. SYNOPSIS: When Rodney Baze mysteriously disappears and law enforcement doesn’t follow through fast enough, his older brother, Russell, takes matters into his own hands to find justice. Watching Out of the […]