Antiviral, 2012.Directed by Brandon Cronenberg.Starring Caleb Landry Jones, Sarah Gadon, Malcolm McDowell, Douglas Smith, Joe Pingue and Nicholas Campbell.SYNOPSIS:In a celebrity obsessed future, a company sells viruses that have been harvested from celebrities. However, when an employee becomes infected with a lethal disease, he faces a race against the clock in order to save his […]

Room 237, 2012.Directed by Rodney Ascher.SYNOPSIS:A documentary examining the enduring legacy of Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining and the weird and wonderful theories related to the film’s subtexts that have arisen since its release. Famously, Stanley Kubrick’s psychological horror classic The Shining did not enjoy a terrific reception upon its release back in 1980. Since that […]

Here and There (Aquí y allá), 2012. Written and Directed by Antonio Mendez Esparza.Starring Pedro De los Santos, Teresa Ramírez Aguirre, Heidi Laura Solano Espinoza, Néstor Tepetate Medina, Noel Payno Vendíz, Carolina Prado Ángel, Nicolás Parra Quiroz and Lorena Guadalupe Pantaleón Vázquez. SYNOPSIS: A man travels back to his home in Mexico after working in […]

Save Your Legs!, 2013. Directed by Boyd Hicklin.Starring Stephen Curry, Damon Gameau, Madeleine West, Pallavi Sharda,  David Lyons, Brenton Thwaites, Brendan Cowell, Darshan Jariwala, Eddie Baroo and Ryan O’Kane. SYNOPSIS: An Australian cricket team land the chance of a lifetime. They swap their D-grade park cricket for a tour of India, representing their country. Various […]

Frankenweenie, 2012.Directed by Tim Burton.Featuring the voice talents of Charlie Tahan, Winona Ryder, Robert Capron, Martin Landau, Christopher Lee, Martin Short, Conchata Ferrell, Catherine O’Hara, Tom Kenny and Atticus Shaffer.SYNOPSIS:A young scientist conducts an experiment to bring his beloved dog back to life, only to find himself facing up to unintended – and sometimes monstrous […]

Doomsday Book, 2012. Written and Directed by Jee-woon Kim and Pil-Sung Yim.Starring Doona Bae, Seung-beom Ryu, Sae-byuk Song, Kang-woo Kim, Joon-ho Bong and Ji-hee Jin. SYNOPSIS: Three short films, together making an anthology. One chapter concerns a young man who becomes a zombie. Another shows the anarchic and zany troubles a family run into at […]

Ill Manors, 2012. Written and Directed by Ben Drew.Starring Riz Ahmed, Ed Skrein, Natalie Press, Mem Ferda and Anouska Mond.   SYNOPSIS: As a war rages between rival drug dealers and the police, eight characters struggle for survival amid the cycle of violence. I am going to begin this review by saying Plan B should […]

Argo, 2012. Directed by Ben Affleck.Starring Ben Affleck, Bryan Cranston, Taylor Schilling, Kyle Chandler, John Goodman, Alan Arkin, Zeljko Ivanek, Clea DuVall, Tate Donovan and Victor Garber. SYNOPSIS: During the Iranian revolution, a CIA agent concocts a plan to free six Americans who have found shelter at the home of the Canadian ambassador. In 1980, […]

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 gangster and moll […]

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 which made it to […]