Rampart, 2011. Directed by Oren Moverman. Starring Woody Harrelson, Ice Cube, Ned Beatty, Anne Heche, Cynthia Nixon, Brie Larson, Robin Wright, Steve Buscemi and Sigourney Weaver. SYNOPSIS: A crooked cop struggles for survival in 1990s Los Angeles. Despite their job to try and protect us from crime and being hurt, there are a lot of […]

Haywire, 2011. Directed by Steven Soderbergh. Starring Gina Carano, Michael Fassbender, Ewan McGregor, Channing Tatum, Bill Paxton, Antonio Banderas, Michael Angarano and Michael Douglas. SYNOPSIS: Betrayed by her employers, agent Mallory Kane must fight to clear her name. Part two of Stephen Soderbergh’s speedy return to filmmaking post-Che, Haywire has very little in common with […]

The Raid (a.k.a The Raid: Redemption), 2011. Written and Directed by Gareth Evans. Starring Iko Uwais, Ananda George, Yayan Ruhian, Doni Alamsyah, Joe Taslim and Ray Sahetapy. SYNOPSIS: An elite SWAT team raid a derelict apartment building occupied by a ruthless crime lord and his army of thugs, murderers and gangsters. The Raid is a […]

Piranha 3DD, 2012. Directed by John Gulager. Starring Danielle Panabaker, Ving Rhames, David Hasselhoff, Christopher Lloyd, David Koechner, Chris Zylka, Megan Tandy, Katrina Bowden, Matt Bush and Gary Busey. SYNOPSIS: After the events of the previous film, all seems to be well for a newly opened pool complex. But events conspire to trap everyone in […]

A Good Old Fashioned Orgy, 2011. Directed by Alex Gregory and Peter Huyck. Starring Jason Sudeikis, Leslie Bibb, Lake Bell, Michelle Borth, Nick Kroll, Tyler Labine, Lindsay Sloane, Lucy Punch, Will Forte and Don Johnson. SYNOPSIS: When his father announces that he’s selling his beach house, a thirty-something party animal famous for throwing lavish themed […]

Farewell to the King, 1989. Directed by John Milius. Starring Nick Nolte, Nigel Havers, Frank McRae and Gerry Lopez. SYNOPSIS: After escaping a Japanese firing squad during World War II, a renegade American soldier flees to Borneo where he is adopted by a local tribe and made their king. John Milius’ career in film has […]

The House on Sorority Row, 1983. Directed by Mark Rosman. Starring Eileen Davidson, Kate McNeil, and Lois Kelso Hunt. SYNOPSIS: A house on sorority row finds itself home to a series of murders after a prank goes terribly wrong. Much like Black Christmas (1974), this movie concerns itself with the fate of a group of […]

Phantasm, 1979. Directed by Don Coscarelli. Starring Bill Thornbury, A. Michael Baldwin, Angus Scrimm and Reggie Bannister. SYNOPSIS: A young boy suspects a local mortician as the cause of recent mysterious disappearances. As American horror cinema was on the cusp of becoming flooded with recycled slasher films, thanks largely to the success of Halloween (1978), […]

The Five-Year Engagement, 2012. Directed by Nicolas Stoller. Starring Jason Segel, Emily Blunt, Alison Brie and Chris Pratt. We made Bridesmaids. Remember Bridesmaids? You liked that, right? SYNOPSIS: Tom and Violet are engaged, but circumstance stalls actual marriage. Of all the Judd Apatow-influenced comedies – The 40-Year Old Virgin (Steve Carell), Knocked Up (Seth Rogen), […]

The Squad (a.k.a. El páramo), 2011. Directed Jaime Osorio Marquez. Starring Juan David Restrepo, Andrés Castañeda and Mateo Stevel. SYNOPSIS: A team of elite Colombian soldiers are sent to investigate a remote military outpost where they make a horrifying discovery. The survival horror has been a reliable go to for low budget cinema over the […]