Written by Guillermo Troncoso. Fruitvale Station kicks off with actual cell-phone footage taken during the early hours of January 1st, 2009. Police officers have detained a group of young men at the titular station. It’s hard to tell exactly what is going on, but chaos quickly unfolds between the men and the officers. Suddenly, a …
Written by Matilda Mornane. Micro-budget movie Fateful Findings is the latest film to gain attention for its “so bad it’s good” production. Written, directed, produced, edited and acted by an architect from Las Vegas, Neil Breen, the trailer is enough to have audiences groaning in frustration at the lack of cinematic finesse. Breen, along with …
Written by Justin Datu. In Diana, director Oliver Hirschbiegel offers us a glimpse into the life of a woman who fascinated the world in both her life and death. Unfortunately, it is a look that is sickeningly saccharine, focusing on Princess Diana’s whirlwind love affair with her heart surgeon and layering that romance with enough …
Written by Guillermo Troncoso. French writer-director Gilles Bourdos brings to the screen a drama based on the little known story of Andree Heuschling, a young woman who became the last model to work for the classic impressionist painter, Pierre-Auguste Renoir. When the artist’s son, Jean Renoir, returned from World War I, he began a relationship …
Written by Justin Datu. With Joseph Gordon Levitt’s directorial debut, the romantic comedy Don Jon starring himself and Scarlett Johannson, receiving critical acclaim and box office success, Levitt joins the ranks of many fine actors who have successfully made the transition to a behind the camera role. The transition from actor to director has not …
Written by Guillermo Troncoso. Every parent’s worst nightmare: having their child kidnapped. The fallout from this horrible scenario is explored in this exhausting and dark thriller from director Denis Villeneuve (Incendies). Two couples are understandably shaken and deeply affected when their daughters are suddenly kidnapped. Detective Loki (Jake Gyllenhaal) is called in to lead the …
Written by Christopher D. Bruce. Firstly, if you have had any inclination towards seeing this documentary, congratulations, your instincts are correct. Go see it. Â “The Act of Killing is about killers who have won, and the sort of society they have built.” -Director; Joshua Oppenheimer After the 1965 military coup in Indonesia it is estimated …
Written by Lily Davis. The Family is not the cringe-worthy disaster I had pictured, it is instead a rather flawed but overall enjoyable film. The story follows ex-mafia family the Manzonis from the moment they step into their new life under witness protection in a remote French town. Giovanni Manzoni, played by Robert De Niro, …
Written by Guillermo Troncoso. Robert Rodriguez openly states his passion and love for the Grindhouse era of cinema. He teamed up with Quentin Tarantino in 2007 to bring us the two film feature that included Rodriguez’s Planet Terror and Tarantino’s Death Proof. As an added feature, mock-trailers were included to be played with these films, …
Written by Jessica Hanlon. A tremendous amount of thought and care has gone into the writing of Thanks For Sharing, the sophomore directing effort of The Kids Are Alright co-writer Stuart Blumberg. In fact, you can see that there was a lot of discussion between him and co-writer Matt Winston about addiction, the way it …
