Trance, 2013. Directed by Danny Boyle.Starring James McAvoy, Vincent Cassel, Rosario Dawson, Danny Sapani and Matt Cross. SYNOPSIS:Concussed and confused, Simon (James McAvoy) has forgotten where he’s hidden a rather expensive painting from a gang of professional criminals. After an unsuccessful attempt at torture, the gang leader (Vincent Cassel) hires the talents of a young […]

Point Blank, 1967. Directed by John Boorman.Starring Lee Marvin, Angie Dickinson, Keenan Wynn, Carroll O’Connor, Lloyd Bochner, Michael Strong and John Vernon. SYNOPSIS: After being double-crossed and left for dead, a mysterious man named Walker (Lee Marvin) single-mindedly tries to retrieve the rather inconsequential sum of money that was stolen from him. In Point Blank, […]

Starbuck, 2011. Directed by Ken Scott.Starring Patrick Huard, Julie LeBreton, Antoine Bertrand, Dominic Philie, David Michael, Mac Belanger, Igor Ovadis, David Giguere, Patrick Martin and Sarah-Jeanne Labrosse. SYNOPSIS: As his lover announces her pregnancy, a fortysomething slacker receives other life-changing news: 142 people, all of them the result of artificial insemination, have filed a class […]

Reincarnated, 2012. Directed by Andy Capper. SYNOPSIS: Hip Hop artist Snoop Dogg changes his name to Snoop Lion, travels to Jamaica, emerges himself in Rastafarian culture and produces his first reggae record. In July 2012 Snoop Dogg announced his new stage name, Snoop Lion, to mockery from any number of followers. He had travelled Jamaica, […]

One Mile Away, 2012 Directed by Penny Woolcock. SYNOPSIS: A documentary exploring gang tensions in inner city Birmingham and the attempts by two notorious gangs to bring peace to their neighbourhoods. This intriguing and effective documentary charts two years in the life of Birmingham’s urban sprawl; a tense and at time frightening place, particularly if […]

Good Vibrations, 2012 Directed by Lisa Barros D’Sa and Glen Leyburn.Starring Richard Dormer, Jodie Whittaker, Mark Ryder, Dylan Moran, Adrian Dunbar and Niall Wright. SYNOPSIS: A chronicle of the life of Terri Hooley, a record-store owner instrumental in developing Belfast’s punk-rock scene. The late 70s punk scene of the United Kingdom (or, as we shall […]

The Inside, 2010. Written and Directed by Eoin Macken.Starring Tereza Srbova, Emmett Scanlan, Sean Stewart, Natalia Kostrzewa, Brian Fortune, Kellie Blaise, Vanessa Fahy and Eoin Macken. SYNOPSIS: A man discovers a tape which depicts a group of girls being by tormented by violent vagrants before succumbing to a horrific supernatural evil.  When The Blair Witch […]

Deadly Blessing, 1981. Directed by Wes Craven.Starring Maren Jensen, Sharon Stone, Susan Buckner, Douglas Barr, Jess East, Ernest Borgnine and Lois Nettleton. SYNOPSIS: When Martha marries into a close knit sect she finds herself shunned as an outsider by its fanatical members, but when her husband dies mysteriously while riding a tractor expressly forbidden as […]

The Hunchback of Notre Dame, 1996. Directed by Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise.Featuring the voice talents of Tom Hulce, Demi Moore, Kevin Kline, Paul Kandel, Jason Alexander, Charles Kimbrough, David Ogden Stiers, Tony Jay and Mary Wickes. SYNOPSIS: At the urging of his gargoyle pals, Quasimodo leave the solitary safety of his tower, venturing out […]

Baise-moi, 2000. Directed by Virginie Despentes and Coralie. Starring Karen Lancaume and Raffaëla Anderson. SYNOPSIS: Two young women embark on a destructive tour of sex and violence. Often a film will be made with a certain intent. Often a director and/or writer can struggle to adequately convey and ideals or message they set out to. […]