Lady Snowblood (Japan: Shurayukihime), 1973. Directed by Toshiya Fujita. Starring Meiko Kaji, Toshio Kurosawa, Yoshiko Nakada, Noburo Nakaya and Kaoru Kusuda. SYNOPSIS: Born in a prison as her dying mother lay next to her, Yuki Kashima a.k.a Lady Snowblood knew of life’s hardships from gasping her very first breath. She grows up with vengeance on […]

Foster, 2011. Directed by Jonathan Newman. Starring Toni Collette, Ioan Gruffudd, Maurice Cole, Richard E. Grant and Hayley Mills. SYNOPSIS: A married couple struggling to conceive a child decide to visit a foster home. They are quickly approved to take care of a child, who isn’t exactly your average youngster. Foster is the anti-thesis for […]

Raiders of the Lost Ark, 1981. Directed by Steven Spielberg.Starring Harrison Ford, Karen Allen, Paul Freeman, Alfred Molina, John Rhys-Davies, Denholm Elliott, Ronald Lacey and Wolf Kahler. SYNOPSIS: The archeologist and adventurer Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford) is hired by the US government to track down the Ark of the Covenant in order to prevent it […]

Anna Karenina, 2012.Directed by Joe Wright.Starring Keira Knightley, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Jude Law, Kelly Macdonald, Matthew Macfadyen, Michelle Dockery, Olivia Williams, Emily Watson, Alicia Vikander and Domhnall Gleeson. SYNOPSIS: Set in late-19th-century Russia high-society, the aristocrat Anna Karenina enters into a life-changing affair with the affluent Count Vronsky. A film as good as Anna Karenina would […]

The Cabin in the Woods, 2012. Directed by Drew Goddard. Starring Kristen Connolly, Chris Hemsworth, Anna Hutchinson, Fran Kranz, Jesse Williams, Richard Jenkins and Bradley Whitford. SYNOPSIS: A group of five teens head to a secluded cabin for a weekend getaway and inadvertently revive a “zombie redneck torture family.” But more than fate is conspiring […]

Racing Dreams, 2009. Written and Directed by Marshall Curry. SYNOPSIS: Set in the World Karting National Series, Marshall Curry’s documentary is a coming-of-age story following three kids and their dreams of racing success. Kids don’t get much of a good press these days. With rioting, gangs and failing standards at schools and colleges, it is […]

Here Comes the Boom, 2012. Directed by Frank Coraci.Starring Kevin James, Salma Hayek, Henry Winkler, Melissa Peterman, Reggie Lee, Greg Paul, Greg Germann, Gary Valentine, Bas Rutten and Charice. SYNOPSIS: A high school biology teacher enters the world of mixed martial arts in order to raise money for his cash-strapped school. Since The King of […]

Dredd 3D, 2012. Directed by Pete Travis.Starring Karl Urban, Olivia Thirlby, Lena Headey, Langley Kirkwood, Wood Harris, Luke Tyler, Junior Singo, Jason Cope, Domhnall Gleeson and Rakie Ayola. SYNOPSIS: A feared lawman takes on a vicious gang of drug dealers in the sprawling urban jungle of Mega City One. Anyone who thought the 1995 Sylvester […]

Lawless, 2012. Directed by John Hillcoat. Starring Shia LaBeouf, Tom Hardy, Gary Oldman, Jessica Chastain, Mia Wasikowska and Guy Pearce. SYNOPSIS: In Depression-era Franklin County, Virginia, a bootlegging gang is threatened by a new deputy and other authorities who want a cut of their profits. Lawless is a film which tries very hard to be […]

A Night in the Woods, 2011. Directed by Richard Parry. Starring Scoot McNairy, Anna Skellern and Andrew Hawley. SYNOPSIS: A Night in the Woods follows three friends, Brody, his girlfriend Kerry and her cousin Leo, as they go camping in Dartmoor’s Wistman Woods. Bad moods, paranoia and sexual tension all threaten to overpower the group’s […]