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Big Miracle
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In 1988, three California gray whales became trapped in a water hole, surrounded by ice quickly freezing it over, five-miles off the coast of Barrow, Alaska. In a time before instant news made waves on the Internet things like this could have gone unnoticed to the larger population, but one local news photographer sent video coverage of the animals, and the footage soon found itself from the bureau desk in Anchorage all the way to news anchors around the country and the world, including Tom Brokaw's national...

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Chronicle
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Chronicle takes advantage of two of the most popular sub-genres in filmmaking today, the found-footage film and the superhero epic. It does things differently, as the found-footage sub-genre is usually reserved for horror movies, or films about alien invasions and such. The superhero sub-genre is always based on a well-known character, from an adaptation of a graphic novel, comic book, or the like. Chronicle is about three ordinary teenage boys; Andrew is the reclusive loner with an alcoholic father who...

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The Woman In Black
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The Harry Potter movies have been both a blessing and a curse for Daniel Radcliffe. The blessing is that he is forever ingrained into childhood pop culture and history as the boy wizard; the curse is that he now has to continue his career under the shadow of one of the most successful movie franchises of all time. In moving on from the Potter movies, Radcliffe is off to a pretty good start in Hammer Films' The Woman in Black. The Woman in Black begins with three little girls having a tea party in...

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The Theatre Bizarre
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A young woman (Virginia Newcomb), obsessed with an old theater located across the street from her dingy apartment, notices one night that the door is wide open. Her curiosity gets the better of her, and as she enters the theater and finds a seat, a life-size marionette (played by horror bit-part veteran Udo Kier from Blade and Shadow of the Vampire) takes the stage and welcomes her to the show, a strange cabaret-style production of six short films, all introduced by him and a cast of similar robotic puppets....

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Declaration of War
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Sickness is a risky subject matter to deal with in movies. While disease is one of the easier antagonists to introduce into a plot, being that it doesn't need a motivation or to be made relatable, it can also come off as cheap, played out, and cliched. It is however one of the scariest and most fascinating subjects in humanity, and when used well in cinema can create classics such as Philadelphia, John Q, and Beaches. So it is as well with Valerie Donzelli's 2011 release Declaration of War (La guerre est declaree),...

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Man On A Ledge
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Ex-cop Nick Cassidy (Sam Worthington) is an innocent man, even though he was convicted of stealing a very expensive diamond from real estate tycoon David Englander (Ed Harris) and is currently a wanted fugitive after escaping police custody during a day-out from Sing Sing Prison. Standing atop a ledge of the Roosevelt Hotel in New York City Nick proclaims his innocence, but all is not what it seems. Police negotiator Lydia Mercer (Elizabeth Banks), who has been nicknamed the Grim Reaper after one of her...

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One For The Money
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A proud, born-and-bred Jersey girl, Stephanie Plum's got plenty of attitude, even if she's been out of work for the last six months and just lost her car to a debt collector. Desperate for some fast cash, Stephanie turns to her last resort: convincing her sleazy cousin to give her a job at his bail bonding company...as a recovery agent. True, she doesn't even own a pair of handcuffs and her weapon of choice is pepper spray, but that doesn't stop Stephanie from taking on Vinny's biggest bail-jumper: former...

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The Grey
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The Grey begins with a melancholy Liam Neeson, playing the lead role of Ottway, tormenting himself about a lost love, and commenting on the group of men he works alongside at the end of the world. The end in this case is Alaska, and the men are oil-riggers who all come from less than desirable backgrounds. Without a woman in sight it is clear this is a movie about men; fear not, it is not Deliverance for a new generation although it does have that same broodiness and of course the male bonding in the wilderness....

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Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
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Adapted from the acclaimed bestseller by Jonathan Safran Foer, "Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close" is a story that unfolds from inside the young mind of Oskar Schell, an inventive eleven year-old New Yorker whose discovery of a key in his deceased father's belongings sets him off on an urgent search across the city for the lock it will open. A year after his father died in the World Trade Center on what Oskar calls "The Worst Day," he is determined to keep his vital connection to the man who playfully cajoled...

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Haywire
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Mallory Kane (real-life MMA fighter Gina Carano) is a highly-trained operative that has been betrayed by her company, and her ex-lover/employer Kenneth (Ewan McGregor). On the run, and set on discovering why she is now a wanted woman, viewers find Gina in an Upstate New York diner, where she will soon take a young man and his car on the ride of their lives--while telling him the backstory viewers need to know in order to place Gina in the present. Haywire moves through time in order to piece together the...

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Red Tails
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Red Tails is the (based on a) true story of the 332nd fighter group, an all African-American company of U.S. Army Air Corps pilots in WWII. The film starts with the unit, known as the Tuskegee Airmen, being stationed in Italy and assigned missions that see them attacking and destroying things on the ground like trucks and trains with their rag-tag, hand-me down aircraft. The military brass is reluctant to give the 332nd any real missions because of Black people's reputation for "low intelligence" and "sub-par...

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Underworld: Awakening
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It has been twelve years since Selene walked the Earth in all of her pleather/plastic death dealing vampire wearing goddessness. She returns in Underworld: Awakening with a vengeance but also a new role to play, mommy. Beginning with a very good montage of the previous three Underworld franchise films it is a nice refresher course for those who have seen them and fills in the gaps for those who are experiencing an Underworld film for the first time. It then shows the viewer the state of the world now, as...

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Carnage
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Just like Michael Jackson and Joe Paterno, director Roman Polanski (Rosemary's Baby, Chinatown) will always be known more for the troubles that have rocked his personal life than the successful output of his professional career. Polanski's name is so synonymous with scandal that many people forget that he makes great movies. In a day and age of James Cameron 3-D and Michael Bay explosions, Polanski's Carnage proves that a great movie can be made with just a clever script, a talented cast and a single room. Carnage...

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Contraband
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Chris Farraday (Mark Wahlberg) was a world-class smuggler; together with his partner Sebastian (Ben Foster) they were the "McCartney/Lennon" of smugglers. Times have changed for Chris, a family man with two sons and a beautiful wife, Kate (Kate Beckinsale), he is no longer in the game of breaking the law. Chris now runs his own alarm installation company. His partner Sebastian has also quit the business, and the booze, he works in construction. Contraband is not about two former law-breakers trying to...

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Joyful Noise
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The setting of Joyful Noise is a small-town where the main street used to be bustling with independently owned shops and is now covered in going out of business signs. Time's are tough for the people of Pacashau, Georgia, but the one thing they have, that gives them hope, is the success of their town choir at the Divinity Church. The annual National Joyful Noise competition trophy has eluded them for years; they can never manage to get passed the regional finals and with money being scarce this may be the...

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The Iron Lady
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Margaret Thatcher was the first woman ever appointed to the highest ranking post in Government in the West. She was the British Prime Minister for over ten years, and during her tenure was involved with a number of country-changing policies, global threats, and arguably the greatest of all her achievements, helping to end the Cold War. The Iron Lady synopsis states that it is a film about "one of the 20th century's most famous and influential women, Thatcher came from nowhere to smash through barriers of...

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The Devil Inside
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Making a movie about an exorcism is a gutsy move these days, since the film will inevitably be compared to the granddaddy of them all, The Exorcist. People still try, with mixed results, and the newest venture into the world of demonic possession is director William Brent Bell's The Devil Inside. The Devil Inside starts with a recording of a 911 call, a videotaped police walkthrough of a gruesome murder scene, and a television news report about two priests and a nun who have been murdered. A woman named...

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Roadie
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Canned from a 20-year job as roadie for Blue Oyster Cult, Jimmy is broke and desperate.  With nowhere else to go, he returns home to Forest Hills, Queens to visit his aging mother, where a wild night with some hard-partying high school friends shows him that some things never change. From director Michael Cuesta (L.I.E., TWELVE AND HOLDING) ROADIE features powerful performances from Ron Eldard, Bobby Cannavale, Jill Hennessy and a refreshingly eclectic 70’s hard rock soundtrack.
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy stars Gary Oldman (Leon: The Professional, The Dark Knight) as George Smiley, a retired British spy who is brought back into active duty to catch a Russian mole who has been detected inside of the upper echelon of MI6, the British intelligence agency. George goes about investigating the mole with the help of his most trusted agents, Percy Alleline (Toby Jones from Captain America: The First Avenger) and Peter Guillam (Benedict Cumberbatch from The Other Boleyn Girl). Together, the...

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The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
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The much anticipated English-language adaptation of Stieg Larsson's novel "The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo" arrives with Director David Fincher at the helm and it does not disappoint. The movie is a taut thriller; full of eroticism, sex, violence, secrets, lies, and betrayals. It is a movie you want to watch from start to finish, to let it envelope you in every way, and enjoy the charge of watching Mikael (Daniel Craig) and Lisbeth Salander (Rooney Mara) solve a 40-year-old mystery that is anything but ordinary....

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War Horse
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Although Disney is mostly known for their animated features, much of the company's works in the fifties and sixties were made up of live-action adventure serials for both the big screen and television. Such famous titles as Zorro, The Hardy Boys, and 50,000 Leagues Under the Sea were among the many live-action adventure shows and features that held a very certain ascetic of low budget production with grand scale showings. Now, some 50 years after the original "Mickey Mouse Club" serials were last shown, director...

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We Bought A Zoo
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Following his wife's untimely death, Los Angeles journalist Benjamin Mee (Matt Damon) decides to make a fresh start by quitting his job and moving his children (Colin Ford, Maggie Elizabeth Jones) to an 18-acre property containing the Rosemoor Wildlife Park. Though closed for years, Rosemoor is still home to many animals, cared for by Kelly Foster (Scarlett Johansson) and her small staff. Mee opens his heart and his checkbook as he, Kelly and the others work to renovate and reopen the zoo.
The Darkest Hour
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Sean (Emile Hirsch) and Ben (Max Minghella) have just survived an electrical storm aboard a plane upon arrival into Moscow. In Moscow to secure financing for their web start-up things do not improve when the deal falls through but are looking up when they meet two attractive women at a club later that evening, Natalie (Olivia Thirlby) and Anne (Rachael Taylor). Then the power goes out, and what was just a bad turn of luck in the career department ends up being a fight for their very survival. The Darkest...

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Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked
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The Chipmunks and Chipettes have returned to the big screen in the latest franchise installment, Alvin and The Chipmunks: Chipwrecked. They still sing, they still dance, but the focus this time around is on them finding their way home. Alvin, Simon, Theodore, Brittany, Eleanor, and Jeanette are stranded on a tropical island after Alvin--it is always Alvin's fault, right?--gets them into trouble aboard a cruise ship while on a family vacation with Dave (Jason Lee). Making matters worse is the appearance...

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Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol
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This time around things are different for Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise), the covert operative spy viewer's of the previous Mission: Impossible films know very well. The opening of the film shows him being broken out of a Budapest jail, timed quite playfully to Dean Martin's "Ain't That a Kick In the Head"-- Director Brad Bird obviously wanted to have some fun right from the start. Ethan's release comes with another funny moment, when he uses a pay phone to receive his next assignment, should he choose to accept...

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Sherlock Holmes: A Game Of Shadows
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Some characters are so iconic that they are successful in whatever medium in which they are presented. King Arthur, Robin Hood and Tarzan all come to mind as being just as effective in movies and television shows as they are in comic books and literature. Arguably the most famous of these genre transcending characters is Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes, and his continuing popularity is evident in Guy Ritchie's newest Holmes film, Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows. Sherlock Holmes: A Game...

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New Year's Eve
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Coming off of the success of 2010's Valentine's Day, Director Gary Marshall is trying his hand with the same exact formula on New Year's Eve. The film New Year's Eve has so many parts it is hard to pinpoint exactly what the film is about. It is also obviously missing a great deal of plot because the entire movie lacks structure or a clear sense of story development. You walk away wondering how much footage was left on the cutting room floor with this one, and imagining how terrible it must have been to...

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The Artist
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In the year 1927 the film industry underwent a drastic change. Up until this point all movies were silent, accompanied by music performed by a live orchestra or non-diegetically played in theatres while the picture appeared on screen. The release of The Jazz Singer in October of 1927 ushered in a new wave of cinema, the "talkie." A talkie is what those in the current modern age of cinema consider to be any film--as sound from dialogue, music, and the like are synchronized on screen with the performances,...

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The Sitter
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The newest comedy from Pineapple Express director David Gordon Green is The Sitter, starring Jonah Hill, of Superbad fame. Hill plays Noah Griffith, an unemployed college dropout who lives with his mother. One evening his mother asks him to babysit a trio of children so that she can go out with their parents and, needing the money and knowing that his mother could use a night out, Jonah agrees. He arrives at the home and meets the kids; there's the preppy, gymnastics loving Slater (Max Records from Where...

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Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy stars Gary Oldman (Leon: The Professional, The Dark Knight) as George Smiley, a retired British spy who is brought back into active duty to catch a Russian mole who has been detected inside of the upper echelon of MI6, the British intelligence agency. George goes about investigating the mole with the help of his most trusted agents, Percy Alleline (Toby Jones from Captain America: The First Avenger) and Peter Guillam (Benedict Cumberbatch from The Other Boleyn Girl). Together, the...

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I Melt With You
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Four middle-aged men are experiencing life crisis' in I Melt With You. On their annual friend vacation in Big Sur they all meet to spend a week binging on liquor and drugs, while experiencing existential moments alone, and with one another. Jonathan (Rob Lowe) is a doctor who has become the go-to for prescription drug addiction by his clients--his cash for drugs practice has eaten away at his pride and respect for his career, as well as ruined his marriage and caused his own son to dismiss him as his father....

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A Dangerous Method
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Director David Cronenberg's A Dangerous Method begins with Carl Jung (Michael Fassbender from Inglourious Basterds and Shame) meeting his new patient, a young Russian-Jewish woman named Sabina Spielrein (The Pirates of the Caribbean movies' Keira Knightley), who has been diagnosed with hysteria. Jung reaches out to Sigmund Freud (Viggo Mortensen, The Lord of the Rings trilogy's Aragon) for advice about the case, and the two find kindred spirits in each other, the two of them sharing theories that they both...

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Shame
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The first time we meet main character Brandon (Michael Fassbender) he is lying in bed alone amongst tousled sheets. The camera holds on his position longer than need be, immediately setting the viewer inside the small world of Brandon's we will soon encounter throughout the film. Brandon gets up from the bed and opens the curtains as the title Shame makes its way onto the screen. Shame is indeed what Shame is about, and Brandon is a shamed man in more than one respect--how Director/Co-Writer Steve McQueen...

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Sleeping Beauty
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Jane Campion presents SLEEPING BEAUTY, the bold and provocative directorial debut of Julia Leigh, an official selection of the Cannes, Toronto and Chicago film festivals. Featuring a phenomenal breakthrough performance by Emily Browning, this coolly shocking retelling of the classic myth poses its heroine as a rarified sex-worker, confronting ideas of feminine sexuality with bravado and precision.
The Lady
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Over the course of three years Screenwriter Rebecca Frayn wrote the script for The Lady, based on the true story of Aung San Suu Kyi (Michelle Yeoh). Aung San is alive today, and her story witnessed a dramatic turn during the filming of the movie, she was finally set-free of house arrest after fifteen years in her home country of Burma. Such a development obviously changed the course of the film, what it did not do was make her true-story written for the screen full of the depth needed or deserved by a woman...

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Arthur Christmas
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As any good Christmas tale should begin, Arthur Christmas starts with a small girl, Gwen, placing her letter to Santa in the corner mailbox. A tried and true tradition for children around the world she asks Santa for one special gift on Christmas--for Gwen it is a bike with stabilizers (known as training wheels in the States). Her letter is not read by Santa himself but his youngest son Arthur (voiced by James McAvoy), who is in charge of letters at the North Pole facility. Facility is the correct word...

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Hugo
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There is a glimmer of nostalgia in Martin Scorses's Hugo. Scorsese is a known supporter of film preservation, and a lover of classic cinema; something that may be seen in every film he has made over an illustrious career. Hugo may well be his homage to cinema itself, as it is filled with small hat tipping's to cinematic history. Hugo is the story of a young boy, Hugo Cabret (Asa Butterfield), an orphan who came to live in the Central Train Station of Paris, France after his father died unexpectedly....

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The Muppets (2011)
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There is a certain section of American pop culture that can hit a chord with people of several different age groups and lifestyles. These works are difficult to produce, seeing as they have to stride a line between being clean enough for people who are easily offended and clever enough so as not to insult the audience's intelligence. Things such as Charles Schulz The Peanuts, Bill Watterson's Calvin and Hobbes, and the works of Dr. Seuss can be found under this category, as can Jim Henson's classic characters...

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My Week With Marilyn
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My Week with Marilyn is the story of Colin Clark (played by Eddie Redmayne, Black Death's Osmund), a third assistant director on The Prince and the Showgirl, and his experiences with Marilyn Monroe (Michelle Williams from "Dawson's Creek") on and off the set of the Sir Laurence Olivier (Kenneth Branagh from Valkyrie) directed film. Fresh off the plane from America, Marilyn initially shows up as a high-maintenance, Hollywood movie star amongst a cast of snooty British thespians. At first, Olivier asks Colin...

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Happy Feet Two
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As a sequel to the 2006 Happy Feet the second film in the series finds original tap dancing Penguin Mumble (voiced by Elijah Wood) all grown up and with a son of his own, Erik (voiced by Ava Acres). Opening with a rousing dance number choreographed to the infectious song "Rhythm Nation," originally performed by Janet Jackson, Happy Feet Two starts on a high note. The film then falls victim to the trappings of a simple, less than sophisticated animated film that relies on music and visuals to keep the attention...

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The Descendants
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Alexander Payne's last feature length film was Sideways in 2004; the film went on to win numerous awards including an Academy Award for best adapted screenplay. Seven years later Payne writes and directs The Descendants, a film revolving around the tragedy of a mother's accident, and the repercussions that occur when one man is faced with truth and consequences. Maintaining the darker humor life presents in reality motif, as Payne did in prior films Election and About Schmidt, The Descendants is a film full...

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The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Part One
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In the first installment of what will be the final adaptation of Stephanie Meyer's hugely popular "Twilight" series of books, Breaking Dawn, Part One finds Edward (Robert Pattinson) and Bella (Kristen Stewart) getting married, and in a freak of nature twist having a human-vampire child. The film begins on the eve of Bella and Edwards nuptials, as both are struggling with the fact that they will soon be man and wife. Edward feels the need to reveal his one final secret to Bella, a not so shocking...

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11-11-11
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Almost as inevitable as the fact that a movie called 11-11-11 will be released on November 11th, 2011 is the fact that it will be a horror movie. 11-11-11 stars Timothy Gibbs ("Another World") as Joseph Crone, a bestselling novelist who has just lost his wife and child in a terrible fire. After the tragedy, he has a string of bad luck, including a wicked case of writer's block and a horrific car accident that almost kills him. Once he's out of the hospital, his poor fortune continues and he gets a call...

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J. Edgar
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J. Edgar stars Leonardo DiCaprio (Titanic) as J. Edgar Hoover, the former director of the FBI. An aging Hoover dictates his memoirs to a writer, focusing on his rise to power and the policies and procedures that he implemented during his reign. Told through flashbacks, the story takes place over the course of about 50 years but mainly concentrates on the Lindberg baby kidnapping case, as well as on Hoover's relationship with his secretary, Helen Gandy (The Ring's Naomi Watts), and his associate director...

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Immortals
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The brutal and bloodthirsty King Hyperion (Mickey Rourke) and his murderous Heraklion army are rampaging across Greece in search of the long lost Bow of Epirus. With the invincible Bow, the king will be able to overthrow the Gods of Olympus and become the undisputed master of his world. With ruthless efficiency, Hyperion and his legions destroy everything in their wake, and it seems nothing will stop the evil king's mission. As village after village is obliterated, a stonemason named Theseus (Henry Cavill)...

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Jack and Jill
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Adam Sandler's new film stars Adam Sandler, and Adam Sandler. Yes, one Adam Sandler is not enough this time around, he has created a twin in the form of a husky woman who looks just like Adam Sandler--the frightening image of such a creation that just flashed in your mind is accurate. Jack and Jill is typical Sandler fare, except for the double trouble of having him in both starring roles as the role of his wife Erin, played by Katie Holmes, may as well be a mannequin because she says very little, and has...

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A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas
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It has been quite a few years since we last saw Harold (John Cho) and Kumar (Kal Penn). We've watched them try and get to White Castle, escape Guantanamo and even wind up at a whore house in Texas with Neil Patrick Harris. This time around life is a bit different for the boys as they are no longer roommates, or even friends really. Harold is a married man working at a corporate Wall Street job where picketers throw eggs at the employees. Kumar was kicked out of medical school and is now, well, you know--Kumar...

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Five Star Day
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The daily horoscope, it appears in the majority of newspapers, is available as an application on your phone, via your favorite social network, and if you Google the word "horoscope" you will receive over 1,270,000 results. Obviously, horoscopes are a popular topic for the world-at-large; their validity is questionable, and while many may like the idea of a fated existence the preconceived notion that given what day you were born during the year will inevitably decide your personality traits, and what type...

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Tower Heist
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Queens native Josh Kovacs (Stiller) has managed one of the most luxurious and well-secured residences in New York City for more than a decade. Under his watchful eye, nothing goes undetected. In the swankiest unit atop Josh’s building, Wall Street titan Arthur Shaw (Alan Alda) is under house arrest after being caught stealing two billion from his investors. The hardest hit among those he defrauded? The tower staffers whose pensions he was entrusted to manage. With only days before Arthur gets...

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Young Goethe In Love
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Before Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Alexander Fehling) became a renowned writer of such works as Faust and The Sorrows of Young Werther he was a young man studying medicine. Johann's true love was for the page, writing poems in the attempt to be published. After failing his doctoral exams, being rejected by a publisher, and shaming his father in the process, he was sent to the small town of Wetzler to work as a law clerk in the courthouse for Albert Kestner (Moritz Bleibtreu). The free-spirited Goethe was...

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Anonymous
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The big debate that has always raged in both literary and theatrical circles about Shakespeare is whether or not he actually wrote everything that bears his name. The newest film from director Roland Emmerich (Independence Day, The Day After Tomorrow), called Anonymous, deals with one of the theories as to who Shakespeare really was, and, more importantly, who he wasn't. Anonymous follows Edward de Vere, the Earl of Oxford (Rhys Ifans from Hannibal Rising), who has spent his entire life composing plays...

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Martha Marcy May Marlene
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Presented as part of the new film series between Film Independent and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Martha Marcy May Marlene marks the second event in the series. The moderator for the evening was Elvis Mitchell, esteemed film critic and curator at Film Independent; and to the audiences delight quite friendly, engaging and funny with his opening address. After giving a brief synopsis of the film, and throwing in a well-received joke about star Elizabeth Olsen's famous sisters, matters turned...

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Puss In Boots
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A supporting character in three of the Shrek movies, Puss In Boots (Antonio Banderas) has been given his very own origin story from Dreamworks Animation. The myth, the legend, and the answer everyone wants to know, Where did he get those boots,? will all be revealed in Puss In Boots, the movie. When we first meet Puss In Boots (Puss) he is an outlaw, on the run for a crime he claims he was not responsible for doing. But Puss is no saint looking for redemption, he has become a thief--stealing the hearts...

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The Rum Diary
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Based on the Hunter S. Thompson novel of the same name, The Rum Diary is the story of Paul Kemp (Johnny Depp), an American novelist who takes a job as a freelance journalist at a struggling newspaper in 1960's Puerto Rico. His first day at the paper, he is offered a place to stay by the freewheeling photographer Bob Sala (Michael Rispoli from Kick-Ass), who shares a run-down shack with another reporter from the paper, a drunken lunatic named Moberg (Lost in Translation's Giovanni Ribisi). While he's on an...

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The Three Musketeers 3D (2011)
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Alexandre Dumas is the author of one of the most famous, and often adapted, novels, "The Three Musketeers". There have been great adaptations on film of the novel and there have been those whom should be forgotten immediately. The most recent adaptation follows the three acclaimed lead characters, Athos (Matthew Macfadyen), Aramis (Luke Evans), and Porthos (Ray Stevenson) on an adventure to save, "a coming apocalypse" at the dawn of the 17th Century. In other words, war between France and England, and everyone...

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Footloose
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There are two types of viewers that will go to the re-make of Footloose: those who loved the original and want to experience the toe-tapping fun that was Footloose, and those who have never seen the original and hope to experience what the fortunate did over 25 years ago with the original. For the newbies it will be acceptable, although nothing to tell your friends about. For the nostalgic attendees it will feel like someone took your favorite doll, cut its head off, ripped the stuffing out, and then tried...

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Texas Killing Fields
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Two detectives work the beat in Texas City, Texas; a relatively small jurisdiction compared with the larger county in the area that includes "the fields". Mike Souder (Sam Worthington) grew up in the area, his father a local he used to drive home at the age of eleven when he had had too much to drink. Mike wants nothing to do with the fields, or his ex-wife who is a Detective in that area, Pam (Jessica Chastain). Brian is a recent transplant to Texas City, a man devoted to his faith he says a prayer for...

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The Thing
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The Thing follows a paleontologist named Kate Lloyd (Mary Elizabeth Winstead from Scott Pilgrim vs. the World) who is asked to go to a Norwegian research station in Antarctica by a scientist named Dr. Sander Halversen (Season of the Witch’s Ulrich Thomsen) and his assistant Adam (Eric Christian Olsen from T.V.'s "Community") to investigate an extraterrestrial discovery. Once there, the visitors learn that the team has not only found a U.F.O. under the frozen ice, but they've brought its inhabitant back...

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Margaret
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Margaret is the long awaited film from Kenneth Lonergan (the screenwriter behind Gangs of New York and Analyze This). It stars Anna Paquin as Lisa Cohen, a normal high school student who is going through "that phase" of teenage rebellion. She smokes, talks back to her mother and cheats on her schoolwork. One day, while out shopping, she distracts a bus driver just enough so that he misses seeing a red light and runs over a woman. The woman dies in Lisa's arms, and while giving her statement to the police,...

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Dolphin Tale
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Dolphin Tale is based on the true story of Winter, a dolphin that was injured by a fishing trap and had to have her rear tail removed due to infection. It is also about the relationship between Winter and the young boy, Sawyer Nelson (Nathan Gamble), who assisted in the rescue of her on the beach in Florida. Dolphin Tale falls right in line with films centered around animal care, rescue, and bonding, such as Free Willy. It is an emotional roller coaster, and not purely because of Winter's story alone. Sawyer...

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Machine Gun Preacher
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The opening scene of Machine Gun Preacher takes place in the Sudan, Africa, 2003. A village is being attacked, women murdered, children abducted, machine gun blast blaring, and the screams of the innocent echoing throughout the burning village. This is the place where the real-life Sam Childers will soon find himself, of his own free will and because of his unwavering passion to help those who are being mistreated for the benefit of a rebel army. Flashing back a few years the film introduces us to...

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Creature
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Creature starts with ex-Navy seal Niles (Mehcad Brooks from "True Blood"), his girlfriend Emily (Serinda Swan from "Breakout Kings"), and four of their friends driving through the Louisiana swamplands on their way to New Orleans. They stop for a bathroom break at a ramshackle general store that is owned by a hillbilly named Chopper (Sid Haig, Captain Spaulding from House of 1000 Corpses and The Devil's Rejects), where he tells them the story of Grimley (played by martial artist Daniel Bernhardt from the Bloodsport...

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Mozart's Sister
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Nannerl, la soeur de Mozart, which translates rather clunkily into English as Mozart's Sister, is a new film which seeks to correct the historical injustice done to Maria Anna "Nannerl" Mozart, Wolfgang's older sister and a musical prodigy in her own right whose gifts were quickly eclipsed by those of her younger brother. Led by father Leopold (Marc Barbe), the Mozarts' live like gypsies, traveling across the continent, Nannerl (Marie Feret) and Wolfgang (David Moreau) performing with their father for...

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Senna
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Formula One driver Ayrton Senna was a marvel to watch on the track. His instincts spot on, his ability to wow an audience guaranteed, and his off-track demeanor always one of composure and graciousness. Senna was not a proud champion, but a very proud man; one who would go on to break records on the track, as well as fight battles behind the scenes for fair practices and a slow destruction of the political nature of the sport. All the while maintaining a humble and religious existence in his home life,...

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The Myth of the American Sleepover
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There are many stages of teenage life; the months before a teen begins high school, the in-the-midst of high school growing pains, and the recent graduate, who is at a crossroads in life and love seeking out the familiarity of his former high school days. In first-time writer/director David Robert Mitchell's The Myth of the American Sleepover each of these phases of life will be touched upon by the large ensemble cast who are themselves in these various stages. Taking place over the course of a couple days,...

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Project Nim
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In 1973 Columbia University behavioral psychologist Herbert Terrace had an idea. What if a chimpanzee baby was taken from its birth mother and raised as a human child, in a human household? This idea would become a reality when he made arrangements with a Primate Center to take one of their newborn chimpanzees just days after birth. The chimps new "mother" would be a former student of his, Stephanie Lafarge; a woman who already had children of her own and was living an above average middle class life with...

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Mr. Popper's Penguins
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The life of a businessman begins to change after he inherits six penguins, and as he transforms his apartment into a winter wonderland, his professional side starts to unravel. Based on the bestselling children's book, "Mr. Popper's Penguins" by Richard Atwater.
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