Iron Man 3, 2013.Directed by Shane Black.Starring Robert Downey Jr, Gwyneth Paltrow, Don Cheadle, Guy Pearce, Rebecca Hall, Ben Kingsley, and Jon Favreau.SYNOPSIS:When Tony Stark’s world is torn apart by a formidable terrorist called the Mandarin, he starts an odyssey of rebuilding and retribution.   Marvel’s latest instalment in their comic book franchise and the first in […]

White Tiger (Russian: Belyy tigr), 2012. Directed Karen Shakhnazarov.Starring Aleksey Vertkov, Vitaliy Kishchenko, Valeriy Grishko, Dmitriy Bykovskiy-Romashov, Gerasim Arkhipov and Aleksandr Vakhov. SYNOPSIS: After barely surviving a battle with a mysterious, ghostly-white Tiger tank, Red Army Sergeant Ivan Naydenov becomes obsessed with its destruction. From the looks of the DVD packaging and a brilliantly hammy […]

The Collection, 2012. Directed by Marcus Dunstan.Starring Josh Stewart, Emma Fitzpatrick, Christopher McDonald, Lee Tergesen, Tim Griffin, Andre Royo and Randall Archer. SYNOPSIS: A traumatized man forced to help rescue a beautiful woman who has become the latest obsession of a crazed killer who collects humans in a booby-trapped house of horrors. Another day, another […]

You Will Be My Son (French: Tu seras mon fils), 2011  Directed by Gilles Legrand.Starring Niels Arestrup, Lorant Deutsch, Patrick Chesnais, Anne Marivan, Nicolas Bridet and Valerie Mairesse.SYNOPSIS:Paul de Marseul (Arestrup) is a prestigious but aging wine-maker whose son Martin (Deutsch) lacks talent or indeed the will to succeed him. When Philippe (Bridet) returns to […]

Bernie, 2011. Directed by Richard Linklater.Starring Jack Black, Shirley MacLaine and Matthew McConaughey.SYNOPSIS:In small-town Texas, the local mortician strikes up a friendship with a wealthy widow, though when he kills her, he goes to great lengths to create the illusion that she’s alive. Director Richard Linklater is one of the most unpredictable film makers working today. […]

The Lords of Salem, 2012. Written and Directed by Rob Zombie.Starring Sheri Moon Zombie, Bruce Davison, Jeff Daniel Phillips, Judy Geeson, Meg Foster, Patricia Quinn, Ken Foree, Dee Wallace, Michael Berryman, and Sid Haig. SYNOPSIS: Heidi, a radio DJ, is sent a box containing a record — a “gift from the Lords.” The sounds within […]

Bernie, 2011. Directed by Richard Linklater.Starring Jack Black, Shirley MacLaine and Matthew McConaughey. SYNOPSIS: Small-town Texas mortician Bernie Tiede begins a friendship with a recently-widowed millionaire, and after he kills her the local community rallies in support of Bernie. In Bart Layton’s excellent 2012 film The Imposter the line between documentary and thriller is blurred […]

Gone Wild, 2012.Directed by Dan Curean.SYNOPSIS:A documentary chronicling a herd of wild horses on the Danube Delta. Gone Wild narrowly misses out on full marks due to its last moments spent on making protest noise, but the rest of the doc has beauty and quiet insight reminiscent of Terrence Malick. No documentary should ever be just […]

The Sound of Old Rooms, 2011. Directed by Sandeep Ray. SYNOPSIS:Filmed over 17 years, this up-close documentary takes the viewer through the life experiences of an ordinary Indian man trying to hold on to his calling of being a poet while juggling a normal life. The most interesting thing about documentary The Sound of Old Rooms […]

I Have Always Been a Dreamer, 2012. Directed by Sabine Gruffat.SYNOPSIS:A documentary travelogue and film portrait of two cities in contrasting states of development: Dubai, UAE and Detroit, U.S.A. I Have Always Been a Dreamer begins with a single long take scanning the inner city area of Detroit. The camera gazes up at the old […]