Directed by: Mike McCoy and Scott Waugh Written by: Kurt Johnstad Starring: Alex Veadov, Roselyn Sanchez and Nestor Serrano An elite team of Navy SEALs embark on a covert mission to recover a kidnapped CIA…
Monthly Archives For April 2012
The Deep Blue Sea
Adapted and Directed by: Terence Davies Written by: Terence Rattigan (play) Starring: Rachel Weisz, Tom Hiddleston and Simon Russell Beale The wife (Rachel Weisz) of a British Judge (Simon Russell Beale) is caught in a…
American Reunion
Directed by: Jon Hurwitz, Hayden Schlossberg Written by: Adam Herz (characters), Jon Hurwitz (screenplay) Starring: Jason Biggs, Alyson Hannigan, Eugene Levy and Seann William Scott Jim, Michelle, Stifler, Oz, Kevin, Finch, Vicky and Jim’s Dad…
Battleship
Directed by: Peter Berg Written by: Erich Hoeber, Jon Hoeber Starring: Taylor Kitsch, Rhianna, Alexander Skarsgård, Brooklyn Decker and Liam Neeson Don’t be put off by what you’ve seen of Battleship, it’s yet another example of…
The Hunger Games
Co-Written and Directed: Gary Ross Written by: Suzanne Collins (screenplay/Books), Billy Ray (screenplay) Starring: Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Stanley Tucci, Wes Bentley, Donald Sutherland, Lenny Kravitz, Woody Harrelson, Elizabeth Banks and Liam Hemsworth Set in…
The Sitter
Directed by: David Gordon Green Written by: Brian Gatewood and Alessandro Tanaka Starring: Jonah Hill, Sam Rockwell, Max Records, Landry Bender, Kevin Hernandez Noah (Jonah Hill) is a suspended college student who decides to baby-sit the…
Salmon Fishing in Yemen
Directed by: Lasse Hallström Written by: Simon Beaufoy (screenplay), Paul Torday (novel) Starring: Ewan McGregor, Emily Blunt, Kristen Scott Thomas and Amr Waked A fisheries expert (Ewan McGregor) is approached by a consultant (Emily Blunt)…
The Lucky One
Directed by: Scott Hicks Written by: Will Fetters (screenplay), Nicholas Sparks (novel) Starring: Zac Efron, Taylor Schilling and Blythe Danner A marine (Zac Efron) that collects a glistening photo of a beautiful woman (Taylor Schilling)…
Cafe De Flore
Written and Directed by: Jean-Marc Vallée Starring: Vanessa Paradis, Kevin Parent and Hélène Florent Café De Flore is a deeply personal inquisition. Have you ever been stuck by love like the addictive pulsating beat of your favourite…
Haywire
Directed by: Steven Soderbergh Written by: Lem Dobbs Starring: Gina Carano, Ewan McGregor, Michael Fassbender, Channing Tatum, Michael Douglas, Antonio Banderas, Michael Angarano and Bill Paxton A black ops mercenary Mallory Kane (Gina Carano) becomes…
The Raid
A SWAT team attempts to covertly raid a tenement run by a ruthless mobster (Ray Sahetapy) that serves as a barracks for his private army of the city’s worst killers and criminals. When they’re discovered…
Wish You Were Here
Co-Written and Directed by: Kieran Darcy-Smith Co- Written by: Felicity Price (screenplay) Starring: Felicity Price, Joel Edgerton, Antony Starr and Teresa Palmer Two sisters Steph (Teresa Palmer) and Alice (Felicity Price) with their partners Jeremy…
21 Jump Street
Directed by: Phil Lord and Chris Miller Written by: Michael Bacall (screenplay), Michael Bacall (story), Jonah Hill (Story) Starring: Jonah Hill, Channing Tatum and Ice Cube A pair of underachieving cops (Jonah Hill and Channing…
A Dangerous Method
Directed by: David Cronenberg Written by: Christopher Hampton (screenplay and play “The Talking Cure”), John Kerr (book) Starring: Michael Fassbender, Keira Knightley and Viggo Mortensen Carl Jung (Fassbender) and Sigmund Freud (Mortensen) are colleagues pioneering…
Headhunters
Director: Morten Tyldum Starring: Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Aksel Hennie, Julie R. Ølgaard, Synnove Macody Lund A Norweigan corporate recruitment ‘headhunter’ Roger Brown (Aksel Hennie) steals art on the side to finance his opulent lifestyle and to…
50/50
Directed by: Jonathan Levine Written by: Will Reiser Starring: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Seth Rogen and Anna Kendrick I’m baffled that a comedy/drama with a stellar critical reaction overseas starring Seth Rogen (Knocked Up, Superbad, 40yr Old Virgin) and Joseph…
John Carter
Directed by: Andrew Stanton Written by: Andrew Stanton, Mark Andews and Michael Chabon. Starring: Taylor Kitsch, Willem Dafoe, Mark Strong, Bryan Cranston, Lynn Collins John Carter is a outstanding achievement of literary adaption. Stanton and co…
Carnage
Co Written (Screenplay) and Directed: Roman Polanski Co – Written (Screenplay) by: Yasmina Reza (based on her play by: “Le Dieu du carnage”) Stars: Jodie Foster, Kate Winslet, John C. Reilly and Christoph Waltz Two…
A Separation
Country Iran Runtime 123 mins Language Farsi with English subtitles Written and Directed by: Asghar Farhadi Starring: Peyman Maadi, Leila Hatami, Shahab Hosseini, Sarina Farhadi and Sareh Bayat A married couple are faced with separation when they’re unable to…
The Grey
Co-Written and Directed by: Joe Carnahan Co-Written by: Ian Mackenzie Jeffers (screenplay) Starring: Liam Neeson, Dermot Mulroney and Frank Grillo In Alaska, an oil drilling team flying home crash on the frozen tundra. Stranded, wounded,…
