Amour, 2012. Written and Directed by Michael Haneke.Starring Jean-Louis Trintignant, Emmanuelle Riva and Isabelle Huppert. SYNOPSIS: An elderly couple’s bond of love is severely tested after one of them suffers a stroke. Warning – spoilers ahead… Georges and Anne are a married couple in their eighties, still happy and in love after, we assume, several […]

The Last Stand, 2013. Directed by Kim Ji-woon.Starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Forest Whitaker, Johnny Knoxville, Rodrigo Santoro, Luis Guzmán, Eduardo Noriega, Peter Stormare, Jaimie Alexander, Zach Gilford and Génesis Rodríguez. SYNOPSIS:  The leader of a drug cartel busts out of a courthouse and speeds to the Mexican border, where the only thing in his path is […]

Zero Dark Thirty, 2012. Directed by Kathryn Bigelow.Starring Jessica Chastain, Jason Clarke, Joel Edgerton, Mark Strong, Chris Pratt, Kyle Chandler, Taylor Kinney, Mark Duplass, Stephen Dillane, Frank Grillo, Edgar Ramirez, Harold Perrineau, Jennifer Ehle, James Gandolfini, Scott Adkins and John Barrowman. SYNOPSIS: The hunt for Osama Bin Laden in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist […]

Django Unchained, 2012.Written and Directed by Quentin Tarantino.Starring Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz, Leonardo DiCaprio, Kerry Washington, Samuel L. Jackson, Walton Goggins, Dennis Christopher, James Remar, Michael Parks, Don Johnson and Jonah Hill.   SYNOPSIS: A bounty hunter frees a slave in return for his assistance and a friendship develops between the two which results in a quest […]

The Helpers, 2012. Directed by Chris Stokes.Starring Kristen Quintrall, Denyce Lawton, Christopher Jones, JoJo Wright, Rachel Sterling, Dallas Lovato, Aubrey Allen, Black Thomas, Dustin Harnish, Cameron Diskin and Braxton Davis. SYNOPSIS: After breaking down on a road trip to Las Vegas, seven friends check into a rest-stop motel and wake up in their rooms to […]

Django Unchained, 2012.Written and Directed by Quentin Tarantino.Starring Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz, Leonardo DiCaprio, Kerry Washington, Samuel L. Jackson, Walton Goggins, Dennis Christopher, James Remar, Michael Parks, Don Johnson and Jonah Hill. SYNOPSIS: With the help of a German bounty hunter, a freed slave sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal Mississippi plantation […]

Gangster Squad, 2013. Directed by Ruben Fleischer. Starring Josh Brolin, Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone, Sean Penn, Michael Pena, Robert Patrick, Anthony Mackie, Giovanni Ribisi, Nick Nolte and Josh Pence. SYNOPSIS: A group of incorruptible Los Angeles police officers join together to stop and up-and-coming mafia boss, sparking a violent war for control of the city. […]

Gangster Squad, 2013. Directed by Ruben Fleischer. Starring Josh Brolin, Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone, Sean Penn, Robert Patrick, Michael Pena, Anthony Mackie, Giovanni Ribisi, Nick Nolte and Josh Pence. SYNOPSIS: A 1940s crime tale about the rise and fall of gangster Mickey Cohen. Let me start by saying that I enjoyed Gangster Squad, but it […]

Django, Prepare a Coffin (Italian: Preparati la bara!), 1968. Directed by Ferinando Baldi. Starring Terence Hill, Horst Frank, George Eastman, Jose Torres and Pinuccio Ardia. SYNOPSIS: After the cold-blooded execution of his wife, a lone gun-slinger, Django (Hill), becomes a vigilant for a town at the mercy of his wife’s murderer. With increasing publicity for […]

Shadow Dancer, 2012. Directed by James Marsh. Starring Clive Owen, Andrea Riseborough, Gillian Anderson, Aidan Gillen, Domhnall Gleeson, Brid Brennan, David Wilmot, Stuart Graham and Martin McCann. SYNOPSIS: Single mother Collette McVeigh is a Republican living in Belfast with her mother and hardliner IRA brothers. When she is arrested for her part in an aborted […]