The Wolf of Wall Street, 2013. Directed by Martin Scorsese.Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Jonah Hill, Margot Robbie, Matthew McConaughey, Kyle Chandler, Rob Reiner, Jon Bernthal, Jon Favreau, and Jean Dujardin. SYNOPSIS: Based on the true story of Jordan Belfort, from his rise to a wealthy stockbroker living the high life to his fall involving crime, corruption […]

White House Down, 2013. Directed by Roland Emmerich.Starring Channing Tatum, Jamie Foxx, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Jason Clarke, Richard Jenkins, Joey King, and James Woods. SYNOPSIS: While on a tour of the White House with his young daughter, a Capitol policeman springs into action to save his child and protect the president from a heavily armed group […]

The Railway Man, 2013. Directed by Jonathan Teplitzky.Starring Colin Firth, Nicole Kidman, Hiroyuki Sanada, Stellan Skarsgård, Jeremy Irvine and Sam Reid. SYNOPSIS: Decades after being tormented as a prisoner of war at a Japanese labour camp during World War II, a former British Army officer sets out to confront those he holds responsible. In the […]

The Wolf of Wall Street, 2013. Directed by Martin Scorsese.Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Jonah Hill, Margot Robbie, Matthew McConaughey, Kyle Chandler, Rob Reiner, Jon Bernthal. Jon Favreau and Jean Dujardin. SYNOPSIS: Based on the memoirs of Jordan Belfort, depicting his rise to wealthy, debauched stockbroker and his fall to drug addict and federal prisoner. Throughout The […]

Roulette, 2012. Written and Directed by Erik Kristopher Myers.Starring Mike Baldwin, Ali Lukowsky and Will Haza. SYNOPSIS: The story of Roulette centers around three characters; Dean Jensen (Mike Baldwin), Richard Kessler (Will Haza), and Sunshine ‘Sunny’ Howard (Ali Lukowski). The three characters all suffer from suicidal thoughts brought on by depression and past events, later discovered to […]

Crystal Fairy & the Magical Cactus, 2013. Written and Directed by Sebastián Silva.Starring Michael Cera, Gaby Hoffman,  Juan Andrés Silva, Agustín Silva, José Miguel Silva and Sebastián Silva. SYNOPSIS: As Jamie travels in Chile, he invites an eccentric woman to join his group’s quest to score a fabled hallucinogen, a move that finds him at […]

The Wolf of Wall Street, 2013. Directed by Martin Scorsese.Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Jonah Hill, Margot Robbie, Matthew McConaughey, Kyle Chandler, Rob Reiner, Jon Bernthal. Jon Favreau, and Jean Dujardin. SYNOPSIS: Based on the true story of Jordan Belfort, from his rise to a wealthy stockbroker living the high life to his fall involving crime, corruption […]

Any Day Now, 2012. Directed by Travis Fine.Starring Alan Cumming, Garret Dillahunt, Isaac Leyva, Frances Fisher and Gregg Henry. SYNOPSIS: In the 1970s, a gay couple fights a biased legal system to keep custody of the abandoned mentally handicapped teenager that comes to live under their roof. First of all it has to be said […]

Luke Graham continues our Buster Keaton month with reviews of Three Ages and Sherlock Jr…. The British Film Institute’s decision to pair Three Ages (1923) and Sherlock Jr. (1924) proved a wise one, as these two films serve as a great introduction to Buster Keaton. By 1923, Keaton was already famous for his short films, […]

The Railway Man, 2013. Directed by Jonathan Teplitzky.Starring Colin Firth, Nicole Kidman, Hiroyuki Sanada, Stellan Skarsgård, Jeremy Irvine and Sam Reid. SYNOPSIS: A victim from World War II’s “Death Railway” sets out to find those responsible for his torture. A true story. Nicole Kidman can’t play ordinary. She can’t simply exist, she has to carry […]