The Great Beauty (Italian: La grande bellezza), 2013. Written and Directed by Paolo Sorrentino.Starring Toni Servillo, Carlo Verdone and Sabrina Ferilli. SYNOPSIS: Jep Gambardella, doyen of the chattering classes, undergoes an existential crisis. Paolo Sorrentino, riding high on previous successes, most notably Il Divo, comes to Cannes with a Roman tale of Jep Gambardella (Toni […]

Epic, 2013.Directed by Chris Wedge.Featuring the voice talents of Amanda Seyfried, Colin Farrell, Josh Hutcherson, Christoph Waltz, Aziz Ansari, Chris O’Dowd, Pitbull, Jason Sudeikis, Steven Tyler, and Beyoncé Knowles.SYNOPSIS:A teenager finds herself transported to a deep forest setting where a battle between the forces of good and the forces of evil is taking place. She […]

Fast & Furious 6, 2013.Directed by Justin Lin.Starring Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Dwayne Johnson, Luke Evans, Michelle Rodriguez, Elsa Pataky, Jordana Brewster and Gina Carano.SYNOPSIS:The gang of car thieves and illegal street racers are brought out of retirement to face a global menace…and track down a long-lost member.This sixth (yes sixth) entry in the ever-increasingly […]

Black Sabbath (Italian: I tre volti della paura),1963.Directed by Mario Bava.Starring Boris Karloff, Jacqueline Pierreux, Michèle Mercier, Lydia Alfonsi, Mark Damon,# and Milo Quesada.SYNOPSIS:A three part horror anthology featuring a woman who is terrorised by phone calls from an escaped convict, a nurse who steals a ring from the corpse of a dead spiritualist and […]

Inside Llewyn Davis, 2013. Directed by Ethan Coen and Joel Coen.Starring Carey Mulligan, Justin Timberlake, John Goodman, Garret Hedlund, and Oscar Isaac. SYNOPSIS:  Cannes Festival darlings Ethan and Joel Cohen return to the Croisette and to magnificent form with the eponymous tale of failed folk singer – and a failure in so many other things […]

The Hidden Face (Spanish: La cara oculta), 2011. Directed by Andrés Baiz.Starring: Martina García, Clara Lago and Quim Gutiérrez. SYNOPSIS:   A Spanish orchestra conductor deals with the mysterious disappearance of his girlfriend. Trailers revealing too much in general is nothing new, but some go one step further and divulge a plot point or character trajectory […]

The Missing Picture (French: L’image manquante), 2013. Directed by Pithy Panh. SYNOPSIS: Pol Pot’s reign of terror revisited through the eyes of a survivor. Rithy Panh’s incredibly moving story of life under the Khmer Rouge starts with the premise of a missing photo. It is a picture that does not exist, an image that details […]

Shield of Straw (Japanese: Wara no tate), 2013. Directed by Takashi Miike.Starring Nanako Matsushima, Tatsuya Fujiwara, and Takao Osawa. SYNOPSIS: The Japanese police have to transport a known child killer to Tokyo. When the billionaire grandfather of the murdered girl offers a reward for the killer’s assassination the police’s job gets a little tougher. Prolific […]

Blood, 2012. Directed by Nick MurphyStarring Paul Bettany, Stephen Graham, Mark Strong and Brian Cox.  SYNOPSIS: Thriller charting the moral collapse of a police family. Two cop brothers, smothered by the shadow of their former police chief father, must investigate a crime they themselves have committed. A young girl lies murdered inside two pools: one […]

Nothing But the Truth, 2008. Director Rod Lurie.Starring Kate Beckinsale, Matt Dillon, Angela Bassett, Alan Alda, Vera Farmiga, David Schwimmer, Courtney B. Vance, and Noah Wyle. SYNOPSIS: In Washington, D.C., a female reporter faces a possible jail sentence for outing a CIA agent and refusing to reveal her source. Nothing But the Truth is a […]