MOM AND DAD (2018)

Written & Directed By: Brian Taylor 
Cinematography By: Daniel Pearl 
Editor: Rose Corr & Fernando Villena 

Cast: Nicolas Cage, Selma Blair, Anne Winters, Zackary Arthur, Lance Henriksen, Joseph D. Reitman, Robert Cunningham, Olivia Crocicchia 

There's definitely something terrible going on in the peaceful suburban community, as, one after the other, otherwise loving and caring parents mysteriously turn into ravenous carriers of an unfathomable pandemic that targets their offspring. Suddenly, every son and daughter--not only in the neighbourhood but also in the entire regionhave to run for their lives, as the rage-filled murderous intent is simply as unstoppable as it is inexplicable. Of course, Brent and Kendall's teenage children are no exception, and before long, the simmering but usual familial tensions will take a completely different meaning. Kids, stop hiding. Mum and Dad love you so much.

LEATHERFACE (2017)

Directed By: Alexandre Bustillo & Julien Maury 
Written By: Seth M. Sherwood 
Based On Characters Created By: Tobe Hooper & Kim Henkel 
Cinematography By: Antoine Sanier 
Editor: Sebastien De Sainte Croix & Josh Ethier 

Cast: Stephen Dorff, Lili Taylor, Finn Jones, Sam Strike, Vanessa Grasse, Jessica Madsen, James Bloor 

 A teenage Leatherface escapes from a mental hospital with three other inmates, kidnapping a young nurse and taking her on a road trip from hell, while being pursued by a lawman out for revenge.

THE NIGHT WATCHMEN (2017)

Directed By: Mitchell Altieri 
Written By: Dan DeLuca & Jamie Nash 
Story By: Ken Arnold & Dan DeLuca 
Cinematography By: Amanda Treyz 
Editor: Brett Solem 

Cast: Ken Arnold, Dan DeLuca, Kevin Jiggetts, Kara Luiz, Rain Pryor, James Remar, Tiffany Shepis, Max Gray Wilbur, Diona Reasonover 


Three inept night watchmen, aided by a young rookie and a fearless tabloid journalist, fight an epic battle to save their lives. A mistaken warehouse delivery unleashes a horde of hungry vampires, and these unlikely heroes must not only save themselves but also stop the scourge that threatens to take over the city of Baltimore.

SPIRAL (2007)

Directed By: Adam Green & Joel David Moore 
Written By: Joel David Moore & Jeremy Danail Boreing 
Cinematography By: Will Barratt 
Editor: Cory Livingston 


Cast: Joel David Moore, Amber Tamblyn, Zachary Levi, Tricia Helfer 


A reclusive telemarketer has only one semblance of a friend: His telecommuter boss. But the telemarketer's social circle seems to improve greatly when a whimsical co-worker enters his life. Only, as he begins to sketch his new friend's portrait, disturbing "voices" from the phone man's past threaten to lead him into a network of destruction.

GAME OVER, MAN! (2018)

Directed By: Kyle Newacheck 
Written By: Anders Holm 
Story By: Anders Holm, Adam Devine & Blake Anderson 
Cinematography By: Steve Jablonsky 
Editor: Evan Henke 


Cast: Adam Devine, Anders Holm, Blake Anderson, Rhona Mitra, Neal McDonough, Sam Richardson, Steve Howey, Utkarsh Ambudkar, Daniel Stern, Aya Cash, Andrew Bachelor, Sugar Lyn Beard, Chloe Bridges, Mac Brandt, Jon Garbus 


Three friends are on the verge of getting their video game financed when their benefactor is taken hostage by terrorists.

LOGAN LUCKY (2017)

Directed By: Steven Soderbergh 
Written By: Rebecca Blunt 
Cinematography By: Steven Soderbergh (As Peter Andrews) 
Editor: Steven Soderbergh (As Mary Ann Bernard) 


Cast: Channing Tatum, Daniel Craig, Adam Driver, Katie Holmes, Seth McFarlane, Katherine Waterston, Riley Keough, Jack Quaid, Sebastian Stan, Hillary Swank, Jim O’Heir, David Denman, Brian Gleeson, Dwight Yoakam, Macon Blair 


When Jimmy Logan gets fired, he convinces his brother Clyde and sister Mellie to help him rob the Charlotte Motor Speedway during a NASCAR Race. But they will need the help of Joe Bang, a convicted safe-cracker who is currently doing time. All they have to do is break Joe out, blow the racetrack vault, get away with the cash, return Joe to prison, and get Jimmy to his daughter's beauty pageant on time. What could possibly go wrong? Well, there is the Logan family curse.

THE HOUSE (2017)

Directed By: Andrew Jay Cohen 
Written By: Andrew Jay Cohen & Brendan O’Brien 
Cinematography By: Jas Shelton 
Editor: Evan Henke & Michael L. Sale 


Cast: Will Ferrell, Amy Poehler, Jason Mantzounkas, Nick Kroll, Lennon Parham, Randall Park, Rob Huebel, Andrea Savage, Steve Zissis, Ryan Simpkins, Allison Tolman, Rory Scovel, Cedric Yarbrough, Kyle Kinane, Michela Watkins, Jeremy Renner, Sam Richardson, Wayne Federman, Andy Buckley, Jessica St. Clair 

After the town scholarship program no longer has funding, two parents are left without money to send their daughter to university. Left without any other options, they along with a friend, start an illegal casino in his home to make cash before the summer ends.

SEX IS ZERO 2 (2007)

Directed By: Tae-Yun Yoon 
Written By: JK Koun 
Editor: Jin-Hui Jeong 


Cast: Chang Jung Lim, Ji-Hiyo Song, Seong-Guk choi, Yi-Shin, Ji-wan Hu 


In his 10th year at college, Eun-sik is part of a nearly ideal campus couple with swimming champ Kyung-ah. While their three-year relationship is solid, Eun-sik struggles to get to the next level with Kyung-ah; despite the help and support of his friends, he can't manage to get her into bed.

TRAGEDY GIRLS (2012)

Directed By: Tyler MacIntyre 
Written By: Chris Lee Hill & Tyler MacIntyre 
Based on an Original Screenplay By: Justin Olson 
Cinematography By: Pawel Pogorzelski 
Editor: Martin Pensa 

Cast: Alexandra Shipp, Brianna Hildebrand, Craig Robinson, Kevin Durand, Elise Neal, Jack Quaid, Nicky Whelan, Rosalind Chao 


A twist on the slasher genre, following two death-obsessed teenage girls who use their online show about real-life tragedies to send their small mid-western town into a frenzy and cement their legacy as modern horror legends.

THE TUXEDO (2002)

Directed By: Kevin Donovan 
Written By: Michael J. Wilson &  Michael Leeson 
Story By: Phil Hay, Matt Manfredi & Michael J. Wilson 
Cinematography By: Stephen F. Windon 
Editor: Craig P. Herring 


Cast: Jackie Chan, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Debi Mazar, Jason Issacs, Peter Stomare, Romany Malco, Ritchie Coster 


Jimmy Tong is just a lowly chauffeur for millionaire Clark Devlin, until Devlin has an accident that puts him in the hospital. Tong is sent back to fetch some things for Devlin and unknowingly tries on Devlin's tuxedo and finds that it gives extraordinary powers to anyone that dons the suit. This discovery thrusts Tong into world of international intrigue and espionage and pairs him with an inexperienced partner.

UPTOWN GIRLS (2003)

Directed By: Boaz Yakin 
Written By: Julia Dahl, Mo Ogrodnik & Lisa Davidowitz 
Story By: Alison Jacobs 
Cinematography By: Michael Ballhaus 
Editor: David Ray 


Cast: Brittany Murphy, Dakota Fanning, Donald Faison, Marley Shelton, Jesse Spencer, Heather Locklear, Pell James, Austin Pendelton 


Molly Gunn, the freewheeling daughter of a deceased rock legend, is forced to get a job when her manager steals her money. As nanny for precocious Ray, the oft ignored daughter of a music executive, she learns what it means to be an adult while teaching Ray how to be a child.

SATISFACTION (1988)

Directed By: Joan Freeman 
Written By: Charles Purpura 
Cinematography By: Thomas Del Ruth 
Editor: Joel Goodman 


Cast: Justine Bateman, Julia Roberts, Trini Alvarado, Liam Neeson, Debbie Harry, Michael DeLorenzo, Britta Phillips, Chris Nash, Scott Coffey 


A group of teenagers have a band, Mystery, with Jennie as the lead singer. They go to a bar at the coast and play during the summer. Jennie falls in love with the owner of the bar, Martin. They get an offer to play in Europe and perhaps become famous. But are they ready for it?

SUBURBICON (2017)

Directed By: George Clooney 
Written By: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, George Clooney & Grant Heslov 
Cinematography By: Robert Elswit 
Editor: Stephen Mirrione 


Cast: Matt Damon, Julianne Moore, Oscar issac, Noah Jupe, Richard Kind, Jack Conley, Gary Basaraba 

In the bosom of Suburbicon, a family-centred, all-white utopia of manicured lawns and friendly locals, a simmering tension is brewing, as the first African-American family moves in the idyllic community, in the hot summer of 1959. However, as the patriarch Gardner Lodge and his family start catching a few disturbing glimpses of the once welcoming neighbourhood's dark underbelly, acts of unprecedented violence paired with a gruesome death will inevitably blemish Suburbicon's picture-perfect facade. Who would have thought that darkness resides even in Paradise?

JEFF OF THE CINEFILES & UNFINISHED BUSINESS: HALL OF FAME: FILE #0051:THE MAN WHO WASN'T THERE (2001)

Written & Directed By: Joel Coen & Ethan Coen 
Cinematography By: Roger Deakins 
Editor: Joel Coen &Ethan Coen (Under the name Roderick Jaymes) &Tricia Cooke 


Cast: Billy Bob Thornton, Frances McDormand, Scarlett Johanson, Michael Badalucco, James Gandolfini, Richard Jenkins, Jon Polito, Tony Shalhoub, Katherine Borowitz, Christopher McDonald 

1949, Santa Rosa, California. A laconic, chain-smoking barber with fallen arches tells a story of a man trying to escape a humdrum life. It's a tale of suspected adultery, blackmail, foul play, death, Sacramento city slickers, racial slurs, invented war heroics, shaved legs, a gamine piano player, aliens, and Heisenberg's uncertainty principle. Ed Crane cuts hair in his in-law's shop; his wife drinks and may be having an affair with her boss, Big Dave, who has $10,000 to invest in a second department store. Ed gets wind of a chance to make money in dry cleaning. Blackmail and investment are his opportunity to be more than a man no one notices. Settle in the chair and listen.

HOUNDS OF LOVE (2016)

Written & Directed By: Ben Young 
Cinematography By: Michael McDermot 
Editor: Merlin Cornish 

Cast: Emma Booth, Ashleigh Cummings, Stephen Curry, Susie Porter, Harrison Gilbertstone, Damian De Montemas 


Vicki Maloney is randomly abducted from a suburban street by a disturbed couple. As she observes the dynamic between her captors she quickly realises she must drive a wedge between them if she is to survive.

TOO LATE (2015)

Written & Directed By: Dennis Hauck 
Cinematography By: Bill Fernandez 
Editor: David Heinz 


Cast: John Hawkes, Jeff Fahey, Robert Forester, Natalie Zea, Dash Mihok, Joanna Cassidy, Crystal Reed, Rider Strong, Diechan Lachman, Sydney Tamiia Poitier 


Explores the tangled relationship between a troubled private investigator and the missing woman he's hired to help find.

THE DISASTER ARTIST (2017)

Directed By: James Franco 
Written By: Scott Neustadter & Michael H. Weber 
Based on the Book "The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made” Written By: Greg Sistero & Tom Bissell 
Cinematography By: Brandon Trost 
Editor: Stacey Schroeder 


Cast: James Franco, Dave Franco, Seth Rogen, Josh Hutcherson, Ari Graynor, Jacki Weaver, Paul Scheer, Alison Brie, Jerrod Carmichael, June Diane Raphael, Nathan Fielder, Joe Mande, Jason Mantzoukas, Sharon Stone, Megan Mullaly, Melanie Griffith, Hannibal Buress, Charlyne Yi, Bob Odenkirk, Tommy Wiseau, Casey Wilson, Kelly Oxford

The film is a kind of feel good story. That seems to show even if you have little to no talent but persevere you can achieve it. It also shows that you can make it in Hollywood as there is no set path or any rules really.

THE FLORIDA PROJECT (2017)

Directed & Edited By: Sean Baker 
Written By: Sean Baker & Chris Bergoch 
Cinematography By: Alexis Zabe 

Cast: Bria Vinaite, Brooklynn Prince, Willem Dafoe, Caleb Landry Jones, Mela Murder, Krystal Gordon, Macon Blair 


Set over one summer, the film follows precocious six-year-old Moonee as she courts mischief and adventure with her ragtag playmates and bonds with her rebellious but caring mother, all while living in the shadows of Walt Disney World.

A GHOST STORY (2017)

Written, Edited & Directed By: David Lowery 
Cinematography By: Andrew Droz Palermo 


Cast: Casey Affleck, Rooney Mara, Brea Grant, Will Oldham 


In this singular exploration of legacy, love, loss, and the enormity of existence, a recently deceased, white-sheeted ghost returns to his suburban home to try to reconnect with his bereft wife.

DHEEPAN (2015)

Directed By: Jacques Audiard 
Written By: Jacques Audiard, Thomas Bidegain & Noe Debre 
Cinematography By: Eponine Momenceau 
Editor: Juliette Welfling 


Cast: Jesuthasan Antonythasan, Kalieaswari Srinivasan, Claudine Vinasithamby, Vincent Rottiers

Marc Zinga Dheepan is a Tamil freedom fighter, a Tiger. In Sri Lanka, the Civil War is reaching its end, and defeat is near. Dheepan decides to flee, taking with him two strangers - a woman and a little girl - hoping that they will make it easier for him to claim asylum in Europe. Arriving in Paris, the 'family' moves from one temporary home to another until Dheepan finds work as the caretaker of a run-down housing block in the suburbs. He works to build a new life and a real home for his 'wife' and his 'daughter', but the daily violence he confronts quickly reopens his war wounds, and Dheepan is forced to reconnect with his warrior's instincts to protect the people he hopes will become his true family.

MOVIES WATCHED IN FEBRUARY (2018)

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