Oblivion, 2013. Directed by Joseph Kosinski.Starring Tom Cruise, Morgan Freeman, Olga Kurylenko, Andrea Riseborough, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Melissa Leo and Zoe Bell. SYNOPSIS: A veteran assigned to extract Earth’s remaining resources begins to question what he knows about his mission and himself. Why do we go to the cinema? Why do we choose to pay money […]

Thursday Till Sunday (Spanish: De jueves a domingo), 2012. Written and Directed by Dominga Sotomayor Castillo.Starring Santi Ahumada, Emiliano Freifeld, Paola Giannini, Francisco Pérez-Bannen, Jorge Becker and Axel Dupré. SYNOPSIS: A family of four take a road-trip from the capital of Santiago to the desert somewhere in the north of Chile. Thursday Till Sunday follows […]

Dead End Drive-In, 1986. Directed by Brian Trenchard-SmithStarring Ned Manning, Natalie McCurry, Peter Whitford, Wilbur Wild and Dave Gibson. SYNOPSIS: In an apocalyptic future where crimes rates have spiralled out of control and the economy has permanently collapsed, those in charge have found a perfect solution to the rise of lawlessness… Lock away the undesirables, […]

Zaytoun, 2012. Directed by Eran Riklis.Starring Stephen Forff, Alice Taglioni, Ashraf Barhom, Ali Suliman and Abdallah El Akal. SYNOPSIS: Set in 1982, an Israeli fighter pilot, Yoni, gets shot down over Lebanon and subsequently kidnapped by a group of refugee Palestinians. After making his escape, Yoni attempts to make his way back home, and along […]

The Echo, 2008. Directed by Yam Laranas. Starring Jesse Bradford, Kevin Durand and Amelia Warner. SYNOPSIS: Bobby Walker (Jesse Bradford) is fresh out of prison and living in his dead mother’s apartment as a condition of his parole. Plagued by eerie echoes of the dead trapped in the building, Bobby’s terror mounts as he begins […]

The Expatriate (a.k.a. Erased), 2012. Directed by Philipp Stolzl.Starring Aaron Eckhart, Olga Kurylenko, Liana Liberato, Neil Napier, Garrick Hagon and Alexander Fehling. SYNOPSIS: Ben Logan (Eckhart) and his daughter, Amy (Liberato) started a new life in Belgium after Ben’s job sent him overseas. He’s moved past the struggle of moving abroad and is at the […]

A Knight’s Tale, 2001. Directed by Brian Helgeland. Starring Heath Ledger, Shannyn Sossamon, Mark Addy, Rufus Sewell, Alan Tudyk, Paul Bettany and James Purefoy . SYNOPSIS: After his master dies, a peasant squire, fueled by his desire for food and glory, creates a new identity for himself as a knight. Everyone has watched the odd […]

Trance, 2013. Directed by Danny Boyle.Starring James McAvoy, Vincent Cassel, Rosario Dawson, Danny Sapani and Matt Cross. SYNOPSIS: An art auctioneer who has become mixed up with a group of criminals partners with a hypnotherapist in order to recover a lost painting. Danny Boyle’s latest flick, the mind-bending crime thriller Trance is a mixed bag. […]

The Heist (a.k.a The Maiden Heist), 2009. Directed by Peter Hewitt.Starring Morgan Freeman, Christopher Walken, William H. Macy and Marcia Gay Harden. SYNOPSIS: Three security guards decide to take action and steal their beloved pieces of art when the art gallery they work for plan to move the exhibits oversees. The Heist actually has a […]

Room 237, 2012. Directed by Rodney Ascher. SYNOPSIS: An exploration into the numerous theories regarding the subtexts within Stanley Kubrick’s phenomenal horror The Shining. Room 237, or Room 237: Being an Inquiry into The Shining in 9 Parts, begins with the voice of a man describing a ‘eureka’ moment upon viewing Stanley Kubrick’s film; noticing […]