Filth, 2013. Directed by Jon S. Baird.Starring James McAvoy, Imogen Poots, Jim Broadbent, Joanne Froggatt, Jamie Bell, Eddie Marsan, and Iain De Caestecker. SYNOPSIS: A bipolar, bigoted junkie cop manipulates and hallucinates his way through the festive season in a bid to secure promotion and win back his wife and daughter. Straight off the bat […]

Dallas Buyers Club, 2013. Directed by Jean-Marc Vallée.Starring Matthew McConaughey, Jared Leto, Jennifer Garner, Steve Zahn, Dallas Roberts, Kevin Rankin, Denis O’Hare, Juliet Reeve and Griffin Dunne. SYNOPSIS: In 1985 Dallas, electrician and hustler Ron Woodroof works around the system to help AIDS patients get the medication they need after he is himself diagnosed with the disease. […]

The Invisible Woman, 2013. Directed by Ralph Fiennes.Starring Ralph Fiennes, Felicity Jones, Kristin Scott Thomas, Tom Hollander, Joanna Scanlan and Michelle Fairley. SYNOPSIS: At the height of his career, Charles Dickens meets a younger woman who becomes his secret lover until his death. The Invisible Woman is a subtle and incredibly quiet affair, almost too […]

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 […]