Somewhere
Sophia Coppola directed this fly on the wall account of a frivolous Hollywood actor and the apparent lack of interest he has in his own life as an up and coming star. Sophia’s fascination with loneliness amid isolation is again explored in her 4th film, this time from the perspective of a bad boy star. […]
The Trip
Steve Coogan is hired by Sunday newspaper, The Observer, to review fine restaurants throughout the northern English countryside for a column in their monthly food magazine. When his girlfriend backs out at the last minute, he extends an invitation to everyone before reluctantly inviting former college Rob Brydon as a last resort. You see they […]
Beginners
Oliver, an illustrator, begins dating the whimsical Anna, a French actress, just months following his father’s passing. The recent relationship causes Oliver to reminisce with respect to his parents’ marriage and specifically his dad who had made a startling disclosure to him only 5 years before his death. This somber tale’s most admirable aspect is […]
Ip Man 2: Legend of the Grandmaster
Follow-up to 2008’s Ip Man once again stars Donnie Yen as grandmaster of the martial art, Wing Chun. Our story begins when he and his family move to Hong Kong in the early 1950s after their escape from the city of Foshan. The straightforward plot is divided into two parts. The first half follows the […]
Submarine
Oliver Tate is a fifteen year old Welsh boy with two ambitions in life: to save his parent’s crumbling marriage and to lose his virginity before he turns 16. From that conventional premise springs this tale of anxiety that is surprisingly bitter when it isn’t utterly boring. Adolescent angst is a frequently mined subject. It’s […]
Everything Must Go
Emotional story of a once successful salesman who has lost his job, his wife and even his desire to pick himself back up. Everything Must Go is one of those comedies that’s not really a comedy. I suppose if you go in expecting a laugh riot, you will be disappointed. However, if taken as the […]
Cave of Forgotten Dreams
Werner Herzog, eccentric legend of the New German Cinema, directs and narrates this documentary about the Chauvet Caves in France. Discovered in 1994 they are home to the oldest drawings in the world today, dating back over 30,000 years ago. In an effort to preserve the archeological find, the general public are not allowed to […]
Bill Cunningham New York
One of a kind documentary about Bill Cunningham, a fashion photographer for The New York Times. More of a cultural anthropologist, he documents style as it happens out on the streets of New York City. His impromptu pictures have become a regular series of the newspaper for over 30 years. Half of the time we […]
Jackass 3D
Third theatrical venture based on the MTV show. No plot, just a compilation of Johnny Knoxville et all, performing various dangerous, crude, ridiculous, and self-injuring stunts and pranks. Emphasis on crude as these gags are a bonafide modern day freak show. Other times the antics seems to threaten lives. One ugly sketch has the participants […]
Insidious
A family begins to experience strange occurrences in their new home in this supernatural horror film. Soon after, their son falls into a coma and the episodes intensify. Like the greatest scare fests, Director James Wan wisely highlights creepiness and mood over outright gore. Rather surprising since he was also responsible for directing the original “torture porn” […]