Capital (French: Le Capital), 2012.Directed by Costa-Gavras.Starring Gabriel Byrne, Gad Elmaleh, Liya Kebede, Céline Sallette, Jordana DePaula, Hippolyte Girardot, Natacha Régnier, Bernard Le Coq and Paul Barrett. SYNOPSIS: The head a European investment bank attempts to stay in power while an American hedge fund attempts to buyout the company. When the CEO of a European […]

The Master, 2012. Written and Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. Starring Amy Adams, Joaquin Phoenix, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Laura Dern, Jesse Plemons, Rami Malek and Kevin J. O’Connor. SYNOPSIS:A wayward U.S. Naval veteran becomes the protégé of man who leads his own religious following. U.S. Naval veteran Freddie Quell (Joaquin Phoenix) is set adrift in […]

Lines of Wellington, 2012. Directed by Valeria Sarmiento. Starring Nuno Lopes, Soraia Chaves, Marisa Paredes, John Malkovich, Carloto Cotta, Marcello Urgeghe, Victória Guerra, Jemima West, José Afonso Pimentel and Miguel Borges. SYNOPSIS:Napoleon Bonaparte invades Portugal in 1810 where he encounters resistance from the Anglo-Portuguese army led by General Wellington. After defeating the French troops in […]

Our weekly round up of the big news stories from the world of screen superheroes, including The Dark Knight Rises Director’s Cut, Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Thor: The Dark World, Doctor Strange, Guardians of the Galaxy, The Avengers 2, Iron Man 3, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Kick-Ass 2: Balls to the Wall, The […]

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 […]

The Perks of Being a Wallflower, 2012. Directed by Stephen Chbosky. Starring Emma Watson, Paul Rudd, Nina Dobrev, Logan Lerman, Dylan McDermott, Mae Whitman, Ezra Miller, Melanie Lynskey and Kate Walsh. SYNOPSIS: A freshman haunted by the suicide of his best friend begins to look at life differently with the help of two high school […]

Midnight’s Children, 2012. Directed by Deepa Mehta. Starring Satya Bhabha, Shahana Goswami, Rajat Kapoor, Shabana Azmi, Ronit Roy. Siddharth, Seema Biswas, Shriya Saran and Kulbhushan Kharbanda. SYNOPSIS: A child born at the exact moment India gains its independence from Britain finds his life becoming as fractured as his homeland.   Often there is a complaint that scenes depicting the rituals of human life are lacking in […]

Jake Peffer reviews the pilot episode of J.J. Abrams and Erik Kripke’s new TV show, the post-apocalyptic sci-fi series Revolution… NBC’s latest big budget show comes in the form of Revolution, which follows the story of an unknown phenomenon that disables all advanced technology on the planet. This forces people to adapt to a world […]

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 […]

Shadow Dancer, 2012. Directed by James Marsh. Starring Clive Owen, Andrea Riseborough, Gillian Anderson, Aidan Gillen, Domhnall Gleeson, Brid Brennan, David Wilmot, Stuart Graham and Martin McCann. SYNOPSIS: In 1990s Belfast, an IRA member becomes an MI5 informant in order to protect her son’s welfare. Following the recent events in Northern Ireland, James Marsh’s 1993 […]