Side Effects, 2013. Directed by Steven Soderbergh.Starring Jude Law, Rooney Mara, Channing Tatum and Catherine Zeta-Jones. SYNOPSIS: A young woman’s world unravels when a drug prescribed by her psychiatrist has unexpected side effects. There’s a great film waiting to be made about our pill popping society and the abhorrent lack of ethics on display from […]

Darling Companion, 2012. Directed by Lawrence Kasdan.Starring Mark Duplass, Richard Jenkins, Diane Keaton, Kevin Kline, Elisabeth Moss, Sam Shepard, Dianne Wiest and Ayelet Zurer. SYNOPSIS: Mother and daughter, Beth and Grace, find a bedraggled dog on the side of the freeway. Taking it home and rescuing it, the dog helps Grace meet a man – […]

Hitchcock, 2012. Directed by Sacha Gervasi.Starring Anthony Hopkins, Helen Mirren, Scarlett Johansson, Jessica Biel, James D’Arcy, Ralph Macchio, Michael Stuhlbarg, Danny Huston and Toni Collette. SYNOPSIS: The story of Alfred Hitchcock’s struggles to make and distribute Psycho is told as the backdrop to a love story between Hitch and his wife Alma Reville. Hitchcock is […]

Flight, 2012. Directed by Robert Zemeckis.Starring Denzel Washington, Don Cheadle, Melissa Leo, Kelly Reilly, Bruce Greenwood and John Goodman.   SYNOPSIS: A pilot comes under scrutiny after his plane malfunctions and he is miraculously able to safely land it. I went in to Flight knowing very little and certainly got more than I expected.  What […]

Wreck-It Ralph, 2012. Directed by Rich Moore.Featuring the voice talents of John C. Reilly, Sarah Silverman, Jane Lynch, Alan Tudyk, Jack McBrayer, Mindy Kaling, Joe Lo Truglio, Ed O’Neill and Dennis Haysbert. SYNOPSIS:A video game villain wants to be a hero and sets out to fulfill his dream, but his quest brings havoc to the […]

Stand Up Guys, 2012. Directed by Fisher Stevens.Starring Al Pacino, Alan Arkin, Christopher Walkin, Mark Margolis, Julianna Marguilies and Lucy Punch. SYNOPSIS: A pair of aging con men try to get the old gang back together for one last hurrah before one of the guys takes his last assignment – to kill his comrade. To borrow […]

Flight, 2012. Directed by Robert Zemeckis.Starring Denzel Washington, Don Cheadle, Melissa Leo, Bruce Greenwood, Kelly Reilly and John Goodman.   SYNOPSIS: An airline pilot saves a flight from crashing, but an investigation into the malfunctions reveals something troubling. Somewhere within the 135 minutes of Robert Zemeckis’ Flight is an interesting and compelling story of admitting […]

Warm Bodies, 2013. Directed by Jonathan Levine. Starring Nicholas Hoult, Teresa Palmer, John Malkovich, Rob Corddry, Dave Franco, Cory Hardrict and Analeigh Tipton. SYNOPSIS: A zombie saves a girl from an attack and the two form a relationship that sets in motion a sequence of events that could transform the entire lifeless world. Every year […]

Lincoln, 2012 Directed by Steven Spielberg.Starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Sally Field, David Strathairn, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Tommy Lee Jones, James Spader, Hal Holbrook, John Hawkes, Jackie Earle Haley, Bruce McGill and Tim Blake Nelson. SYNOPSIS: Abraham Lincoln attempts to pass the 13th Amendment to the United States Constitution whilst managing the Civil War. So much of Lincoln is filled […]

Dreams for Sale (Japan: Yume uru futari), 2012. Written and Directed by Miwa Nishikawa.Starring Teruyuki Kagawa, Yûsuke Iseya and Takako Matsu. SYNOPSIS: Married couple Kanya and Satoko are left devastated when their izakaya restaurant burns to the ground. Kanya’s continuous drunken stupor and rejection of his wife’s optimism leads to a drunken one-night stand. Initially […]