Killer Joe, 2011. Directed by William Friedkin. Starring Matthew McConaughey, Emile Hirsch, Juno Temple, Gina Gershon and Thomas Haden Church. SYNOPSIS: When a debt puts a young man’s life in danger, he puts a hit out on his evil mother in order to collect on her life insurance.   2012 was a great year for […]

The Day, 2011. Directed by Douglas Aarniokoski.Starring Shawn Ashmore, Shannyn Sossamon, Ashley Bell, Cory Hardrict, Dominic Monaghan and Brianna Barnes. SYNOPSIS: A group of post-apocalyptic survivors struggle to stay alive in a land plagued by unbearable conditions and predatory gangs… Along with their more carefully coiffed cousins the emo-vampire story, apocalyptic zombie movies have been […]

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, Frank Grillo, Stephen Dillane, Edgar Ramirez, Harold Perrineau, Jennifer Ehle, James Gandolfini, Scott Adkins and John Barrowman. SYNOPSIS: A dramatisation of the decade-long manhunt for the terrorist leader Osama bin Laden […]

20 Something, 2011. Written and Directed by Lanze Spears. SYNOPSIS: A series of vignettes documenting the lives of five 20 somethings with aspirations to succeed in life. Lanze Spears’ debut documentary  20 Something centres around five twenty-somethings living in cities in the United States. Each of them aspire to something and the documentary revolves around […]

Berberian Sound Studio, 2012. Written and Directed by Peter Strickland. Starring Toby Jones, Cosimo Fusco, Layla Amir, Tonia Sotiropoulou, Susanna Cappaellaro, Eugenia Caruso and Antonio Mancino. SYNOPSIS: Gilderoy (Toby Jones), a sound engineer for a UK television and film industry, is mysteriously hired to work on a psychological thriller in Italy. There in the Berberian […]

The Watch, 2012. Directed by Akiva Schaffer. Starring Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn, Jonah Hill and Richard Ayoade. SYNOPSIS: Four men who form a neighborhood watch group as a way to get out of their day-to-day family routines find themselves defending the Earth from an alien invasion. The Watch stars Ben Stiller as Evan, a Costco manager […]

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, 2012. Directed by John Madden.Starring Judi Dench, Bill Nighy, Penelope Wilton, Maggie Smith, Tom Wilkinson, Ronald Pickup, Celia Imrie and Dev Patel. SYNOPSIS: Seven retired British tourists travel to India to stay in what they believe to be a newly-restored and luxurious hotel. The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel is a hotel, […]

Jack Reacher, 2012. Directed by Christopher McQuarrie.Starring Tom Cruise, Rosamund Pike, Richard Jenkins, Werner Herzog, David Oyelowo and Jai Courtney. SYNOPSIS:A homicide investigator digs deeper into a case involving a trained military sniper who shot five random victims. Jack Reacher is something of a rare treat for 2012. It’s a film which gets its style […]

Hope Springs, 2012. Directed by David Frankel.Starring Meryl Streep, Tommy Lee Jones, Steve Carell, Elisabeth Shue, Jean Smart, Ben Rappaport, Marin Ireland and Mimi Rogers. SYNOPSIS: After thirty years of marriage, a middle-aged couple attends an intense, week-long counseling session to work on their relationship. It’s not often we get a grown up romantic comedy, […]

Life of Pi, 2012. Directed by Ang Lee. Starring Suraj Sharma, Irrfan Khan, Tabu, Adil Hussain, Gerard Depardieu and Rafe Spall. SYNOPSIS: A young man who survives a disaster at sea is hurtled into an epic journey as he spends 227 days adrift in the Pacific with only a fearsome Bengal tiger for company. Published in 2001, […]