Hell Is a City, 1960. Directed by Val Guest.Starring Stanley Baker, Maxine Audley and Billie Whitelaw. SYNOPSIS: World-weary police inspector Harry Martineau is on the trail of tough escaped convict and jewel thief Don Starling. His search ends up in Manchester, where the two men play a cat and mouse game of chase across the […]

Stolen, 2012. Directed by Simon West.Starring Nicolas Cage, Josh Lucas, Malin Akerman, Danny Huston, Sami Gayle, Edrick Browne, Mark Valley and M.C. Gainey. SYNOPSIS: A former thief frantically searches for his missing daughter, who has been kidnapped and locked in the trunk of a taxi. Last year Nicolas Cage had four films released, three of […]

To Rome with Love, 2012. Written and Directed by Woody Allen.Starring Antonio Albanese, Woody Allen, Alec Baldwin, Roberto Benigni, Penélope Cruz, Judy Davis, Jesse Eisenberg, Greta Gerwig, Alessandra Mastronardi, Ellen Page, Alison Pill and Riccardo Scamarcio. SYNOPSIS: In the Italian capital, a young couple celebrate their honeymoon, an opera director discovers a new talent in […]

Some Guy Who Kills People, 2011. Directed by Jack Perez.Starring Kevin Corrigan, Barry Bostwick, Karen Black, Arield Gade, Leo Fitzpatrick, Eric Price and Lucy Davis. SYNOPSIS: Following his release from psychiatric care, a 34 year old loner attempts to rebuild his life. When members of his old school basketball team start winding up dead, suspicion […]

Resident Evil: Retribution, 2012. Directed by Paul W.S. Anderson.Starring Milla Jovovich, Michelle Rodriguez, Shawn Roberts, Kevin Durand, Sienna Guillory, Aryana Engineer, Colin Salmon, Johann Urb, Boris Kodjoe and Li Bingbing. SYNOPSIS: Alice fights alongside a resistance movement in the continuing battle against the Umbrella Corporation and the undead. Even the most ardent support of the […]

Case de mi Padre, 2012. Directed by Matt Piedmont. Starring Will Ferrell, Gael García Bernal, Diego Luna and Génesis Rodríguez. SYNOPSIS: When their father’s ranch encounters financial difficulties, two scheming brothers set out to make some quick cash, only to find themselves at war with a feared Mexican drug lord. Casa de mi Padre, the […]

The Landlord, 1970. Directed by Hal Ashby.Starring Beau Bridges, Lee Grant, Marki Bey, Diana Sands, Pearl Bailey and Louis Gossett, Jr. SYNOPSIS: Elger Enders (Beau Bridges) buys an apartment block in Brooklyn with plans to renovate it, atlhough ,uch to his annoyance the tenants refuse to be evicted and as he is forced to interact […]

Shifty, 2008. Written and Directed by Eran Creevy.Starring Riz Ahmed, Daniel Mays, Jason Flemyng, Nitin Ganatra, Jay Simpson, Dannielle Brent and Francesca Annis. SYNOPSIS: A young British-Asian man firmly embroiled in the suburban North London drug trade falls foul of various heavy handed locals. An old school friend, plagued by his own unpleasant memories of […]

Oedipus Rex, 1967. Directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini.Starring Silvana Mangano, Franco Citti, Alida Valli, Carmelo Bene and Julian Beck. SYNOPSIS: Abandoned as a baby and raised by the childless King and Queen of Corinth, Edipo (Franco Citti) learns of a prophesy stating that he will kill his father and marry his own mother… Oedipus Rex […]

Moonrise Kingdom, 2012. Directed by Wes Anderson.Starring Jared Gilman, Kara Hayward, Bruce Willis, Edward Norton, Tilda Swinton, Frances McDormand, Harvey Keitel and Jason Schwartzman. SYNOPSIS: A local search party sets out to track down two twelve-year-olds who have fallen in love and made a pact to run away together. Where to even begin with Moonrise […]