Nebraska, 2013. Directed by Alexander Payne.Starring Bruce Dern, Will Forte, June Squibb, Bob Odenkirk, Stacy Keach, Mary Louise Wilson and Rance Howard.  SYNOPSIS: An aging, booze-addled father makes the trip from Montana to Nebraska with his estranged son in order to claim a million dollar Mega Sweepstakes Marketing prize. A scam letter from Mega Sweepstakes […]

Jeune & jolie (a.k.a. Young & Beautiful), 2013. Written and Directed by François Ozon.Starring Marine Vacth, Géraldine Pailhas, Frédéric Pierrot and Fantin Ravat. SYNOPSIS: The portrait of a 17 year-old girl, in 4 seasons and 4 songs. Jeune & jolie revels in the taboo. In Francois Ozon’s 14th feature, 17-year-old Isabelle (Marine Vacth) begins prostituting […]

Heli, 2013. Directed by Amat Escalante.Starring Armando Espitia, Andrea Vergara, Linda González and Juan Eduardo Palacios. SYNOPSIS: Love story between a young girl and a police man, both of them had connections with drugs but in opposite ways. This will create a conflict that love will try to overcome. The flashes of brutality in Amat […]

The Tenant, 1976. Directed by Roman Polanski.Starring Roman Polanski, Isabelle Adjani, Melvyn Douglas, and Shelley Winters. SYNOPSIS:  A bureaucrat rents a Paris apartment where he finds himself drawn into a rabbit hole of dangerous paranoia. One of Roman Polanski’s recurring motifs has always been the horror of the apartment space. It was as recently as […]

Milius, 2013. Directed by Joey Figueroa and Zak Knutson. SYNOPSIS: A look at the life of filmmaker John Milius. If you stopped members of the public and mentioned the name John Milius they wouldn’t have a ruddy clue who you were talking about – even helping them by throwing a clue of, “He works in […]

Streets of Fire, 1984. Directed by Walter Hill.Starring Willem Dafoe, Michael Paré, Diane Lane, Rick Moranis, Bill Paxton and Mykelti Williamson. SYNOPSIS: A mercenary goes after his ex-girlfriend, a singer who has been kidnapped by a gang. By prefacing the film with the words “another time, another place…” Walter Hill allows himself the freedom to […]

The Counselor, 2013. Directed by Ridley Scott.Starring Michael Fassbender, Penelope Cruz, Cameron Diaz, Javier Bardem and Brad Pitt. SYNOPSIS: A slick lawyer gets in over his head after becoming involved in drug trafficking to ease his financial difficulties. Cameron Diaz removes her underwear and slowly steps out of the bright yellow Ferrari. She climbs onto […]

Lasting, 2013. Written and Directed by Jacek Borcuch.Starring Jakub Gierszal, Magdalena Berus, Angela Molina, Juan Jose Ballesta, Joanna Kulig and Andrzej Chyra. SYNOPSIS: Polish students Michal and Karina are falling in love and enjoying a carefree summer in idyllic rural Spain until an unexpected nightmare throws their lives into chaos. In a roundabout sense, Jacek […]

Norte, the End of History (Philippines: Norte, hangganan ng kasaysayan) , 2013. Directed by Lav Diaz.Starring Archie Alemania, Angeli Bayani, Soliman Cruz, Miles Canapi, Sid Lucero and Hazel Orencio. SYNOPSIS: A man is wrongly jailed for murder while the real killer roams free. The murderer is an intellectual frustrated with his country’s never-ending cycle of […]

Gloria, 2013. Directed by Sebastián Lelio.Starring Paulina Garcia, Sergio Hernández, Diego Fontecilla and Fabiola Zamora. SYNOPSIS: A story set in Santiago and centered on Gloria, a free-spirited older woman, and the realities of her whirlwind relationship with a former naval officer whom she meets out in the clubs. A lot of geriatricomedies – so-called ‘comedies’ […]