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: In 1940s LA, a group of incorruptible police officers band together to stop an up and coming mafia boss. Throwing aside due process and badges and […]

Baraka, 1992. Directed by Ron Fricke. SYNOPSIS: A montage of photographed images telling, “The story of our planet, and human interaction within it.” Cinema is by definition a visual medium, and if this is the beating heart of cinema, then director Ron Fricke and producer Mark Magidson’s Baraka adopts this identity with power. The opening […]

Broken City, 2013. Directed by Allen Hughes.Starring Mark Wahlberg, Russell Crowe, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Alona Tal, Jeffrey Wright, Natalie Martinez, Barry Pepper, Michael Beach and Kyle Chandler. SYNOPSIS: An ex-cop trailing the wife of New York City’s mayor finds himself immersed in a larger scandal. It seems every other year or so we tend to get […]

The Golden Empire (a.k.a The Horde), 2012. Directed by Andrei Proshkin.Starring Maksim Sukhanov, Roza Khairullina, Innokenti Dakaiarov, Vitaliy Khaev and Aleksandr Yatsenko. SYNOPSIS: It is 1357. In the capital of the Mongol Empire the new Khan’s mother has lost her sight. A healer must be found… At its height, the Mongol Empire stretched over half […]

Jackpot (Norwegian: Arme Riddere), 2011. Written and Directed by Magnus Martens.Starring Kyrre Hellum, Henrik Mestad, Mads Ousdal, Arthur Berning, Andreas Cappelen and Lena Kristin Ellingsen. SYNOPSIS: Oscar Svendson (Kyrre Hellum) regains consciousness clutching a shotgun beneath the body of a dead prostitute and recounts his unlikely story to the investigating detective. After the left-field success […]

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

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 […]