The official blog of The CineFiles, a weekly film review series that can viewed at www.youtube.com/cinefiles. This blog will be used to keep fans up to date with upcoming shows and news.
Sunday, March 31, 2019
CAPTAIN MARVEL (2019)
Directed By: Anna Boden & Ryan Fleck
Written By: Anna Boden, Ryan Fleck & Geneva Robertson-Dworet
Story By: Nicole Perlman, Meg LaFeuve, Anna Boden, Ryan Fleck & Geneva Robertson-Dworet Cinematography: Ben Davis
Editor: Debbie Berman & Elliot Graham
Cast: Brie Larson, Samuel L. Jackson, Ben Mendelsohn, Annette Bening, Jude Law, Lashana Lynch, Clark Gregg, Lee Pace, Gemma Chan, Dijmon Hounsou
Carol Danvers becomes one of the universe's most powerful heroes when Earth is caught in the middle of a galactic war between two alien races.
Labels:
2019,
Action-Adventure,
Anna Boden,
Annette Bening,
Ben Davis,
Ben Mendelsohn,
Brie LArson,
Clark Gregg,
Dijmon Hounsou,
Fantasy,
Gemma Chan,
Jude Law,
Lashana Lynch,
Lee Pace,
Ryan Fleck,
Samuel L. Jackson
Friday, March 29, 2019
BUMBLEBEE (2018)
Directed By: Travis Knight
Story & Written By: Christina Hodson
Cinematography: Enrique Chediak
Editor: Paul Rubell
Cast: Hailee Steinfeld, John Cena, Jorge Lendeborg Jr., Pamela Adlon, Jason Drucker, Stephen Schneider,John Ortiz, Glynn Turman, Len Cariou, Fred Dryer, Megyn Price
On the run in the year 1987, Bumblebee finds refuge in a junkyard in a small Californian beach town. Charlie, on the cusp of turning 18 and trying to find her place in the world, discovers Bumblebee, battle-scarred and broken. When Charlie revives him, she quickly learns this is no ordinary, yellow VW bug.
FANTASTIC FOUR (2015)
Directed By: Josh Trank
Written By: Jeremy Slater, Simon Kinberg & Josh Trank
Based on the original Marvel Comic Book By: Stan Lee & Jack Kirby
Cinematography: Matthew Jensen
Editor: Elliot Greenberg & Stephen Rivkin
Music By: Marco Beltrami & Philip Glass
Cast: Miles Teller, Michael B. Jordan, Kate Mara, Jamie Bell, Reg E Cathey, Toby Kebbell, Tim Blake Nelson, Dan Castellaneta, Chet Hanks, Tim Heidecker
FANTASTIC FOUR, a contemporary re-imagining of Marvel's original and longest-running superhero team, centers on four young outsiders who teleport to an alternate and dangerous universe, which alters their physical form in shocking ways. Their lives irrevocably upended, the team must learn to harness their daunting new abilities and work together to save Earth from a former friend turned enemy.
Saturday, March 23, 2019
GLASS (2019)
Written & Directed By: M. Night Shyamalan
Cinematography: Mike Gioulakis
Editor: Luke Ciarrocchi & Blu Murray
Cast: Bruce Willis, James McAvoy, Samuel L. Jackson, Anna Taylor-Joy, Sarah Paulson, Spencer Treat Clark, Charlayne Woodard, Luke Kirby
After pursuing Kevin Wendell Crumb and the multiple identities that reside within. David Dunn finds himself locked in a mental hospital alongside his archenemy, Elijah Price and must contend with a psychiatrist who is out to prove the trio do not actually possess superhuman abilities.
THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT (2018)
Written & Directed By: Lars Von Trier
Story By: Lars Von Trier & Jenle Hallund
Cinematography: Manuel Alberto Claro
Editor: Jacob Secher Schulsinger & Molly Marlene Stensgaard
Cast: Matt Dillon, Bruno Ganz, Uma Thurman, Riley Keough, Siobahn Fallon Hogan, Jeremy Davies, Sofie Grabol, Ed Speleers
The story follows Jack, a highly intelligent serial killer, over the course of twelve years, and depicts the murders that really develop his inner madman.
POLAR (2019)
Directed By: Jonas Akerlund
Written By: Jayson Rothwell
Based on the Graphic Novel: POLAR: CAME FROM THE COLD By: Victor Santos Cinematography: Par M. Ekberg
Editor: Doobie White
Cast: Mads Mikkelsen, Vanessa Hudgens, Katheryn Winnick, Matt Lucas, Fei Ren, Ruby O. Fee, Nia Roam, Johnny Knoxville, Richard Dreyfuss
The world's top assassin, Duncan Vizla, is settling into retirement when his former employer marks him as a liability to the firm. Against his will, he finds himself back in the game going head to head with an army of younger killers.
Friday, March 15, 2019
LORDS OF CHAOS (2019)
Directed By: Jonas Akerlund
Written By: Dennis Magnusson & Jonas Akerlund
Inspired By the book LORDS OF CHAOS written by: Michael Moynihan & Didrik Soderlind
Cinematography: Par K. Emberg
Editor: Richard Krantz
Music By: Sigur Ros
Cast: Rory Culkin, Jack Kilmer, Emory Cohen, Sky Ferreira, Valter Skarsgard, Anthony De La Torre, Jonathan Barnwell, Sam Coleman, Wilson Gonzalez,
Oslo, 1987. 17-year-old Euronymous is determined to escape his traditional upbringing and becomes fixated on creating 'true Norwegian black metal' with his band Mayhem. He mounts shocking publicity stunts to put the band's name on the map, but the lines between show and reality start to blur. Arson, violence and a vicious murder shock the nation that is under siege by these Lords of Chaos.
THE GIRL IN THE SPIDER'S WEB (2018)
Directed By: Fede Alvarez
Written By: Fede Alvarez, Steven Knight & Jay Basu
Based On The Novel By: David Lagercrantz
Based On Characters Created & Introduced on the Millenium Trilogy By: Stieg Larsson
Cinematography: Pedro Luque Briozzo
Editor: Tatiana S. Riegel
Cast: Claire Foy, Lakeith Stansfield, Sylvia Hoeks, Sverrir Gudnason, Stephen Merchant, Cameron Britton
Young computer hacker Lisbeth Salander and journalist Mikael Blomkvist find themselves caught in a web of spies, cybercriminals and corrupt government officials.
PSYCHOUT FOR MURDER (1969)
Story By & Directed By: Rossano Brazzi
Written By: Rossano Brazzi, Diana Crispo, Renato Polselli & Piero Regnoli
Cinematography: Luciano Trasatti
Editor: Amedeo Giomini
Cast: Adrienne LaRussa, Rossano Brazzi, Nino Castelnuovo, Paola Pitagora, Alberto De Mendoza, Idelma Carlo
Mario consigns his girlfriend Licia to a whorehouse for an evening in order to get the photographic goods to blackmail her father with. To get her out of the way, Licia is then consigned to a mental hospital by her father.
Friday, March 8, 2019
FIGHTING WITH MY FAMILY (2019)
Written & Directed By: Stephen Merchant
Cinematography By: Remi Adefarasin
Editor: Nancy Richardson
Cast: Florence Pugh, Lena Headey, Nick Frost, Jack Lowden, Vince Vaughn, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, Stephen Merchant, Olivia Bernstone, Julia Davis, Paul Wight, Stephen Farrelly
A former wrestler and his family make a living performing at small venues around the country while his kids dream of joining World Wrestling Entertainment.
MID90S (2018)
Written & Directed By: Jonah Hill
Cinematography: Christopher Blauvelt
Editor: Nick Houy
Music By: Atticus Ross & Trent Reznor
Cast: Sunny Suljic, Na-kel Smith, Olan Prenett, Gio Calicia, Ryder Maclaughlin, Lucas Hedges Katherine Waterston, Alexa Demie, Alma Elsesser
Follows Stevie, a thirteen-year-old in 1990s-era Los Angeles who spends his summer navigating between his troubled home life and a group of new friends that he meets at a Motor Avenue skate shop.
RUNNING WITH SCISSORS (2006)
Written & Directed By: Ryan Murphy
Based on The Memoir By: Augusten Burroughs
Cinematography: Christopher Baffa
Editor: Byron Smith
Cast: Joseph Cross, Evan Rachel Wood, Brian Cox, Gwyneth Paltrow, Joseph Fiennes, Annette Bening, Jill Clayburgh, Patrick Wilson, Alec Baldwin, Gabrielle Union, Kristin Chenoweth, Dagmara Domincyzk, Colleen Camp
The story of how a boy was abandoned by his mother and how he, later, abandoned her. The year he'll be 14, the parents of Augusten Burroughs divorce, and his mother, who thinks of herself as a fine poet on the verge of fame, delivers him to the eccentric household of her psychiatrist, Dr. Finch. During that year, Augusten avoids school, keeps a journal, and practices cosmetology. His mother's mental illness worsens, he takes an older lover, he finds friendship with Finch's younger daughter, and he's the occasional recipient of gifts from an unlikely benefactor. Can he survive to come of age?
Sunday, March 3, 2019
Friday, March 1, 2019
CLIMAX (2019)
Written & Directed By: Gaspar Noe
Cinematography: Benoit Debie
Editor: Denis Bedlow & Gaspar Noe
Cast: Sofia Boutella, Sarah Belala, Romain Guillermic, Souhelia Yacoub
In the mid 90’s 20 French dancers gather in a remote, empty school building to rehearse on a wintry night. The all-night celebration morphs into a hallucinatory nightmare when they learn their sangria is laced with LSD. Quickly, the atmosphere becomes charged and a strange madness will seize them the whole night. If it seems obvious to them that they have been drugged, they neither know by who nor why. And it's soon impossible for them to resist to their neuroses and psychoses, numbed by the hypnotic and the increasing electric rhythm of the music. While some feel in paradise, most of them plunge into hell.
BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY (2018)
Directed By: Bryan Singer
Written By: Anthony McCarten
Story By: Peter Morgan & Anthony McCarten
Cinematography: Newton Thomas Sigel
Editor: John Ottoman
Cast: Rami Malek, Lucy Boynton, Joseph Mazzello, Mike Myers, Tom Hollander, Aiden Gillen, Ben Hardy, Gwilym Lee, Allen Leech
The story of the legendary rock band Queen and lead singer Freddie Mercury, leading up to their famous performance at Live Aid.
YOUNG & BEAUTIFUL (JEUNE AND JOLIE) (2013)
Written & Directed By: Francois Ozon
Cinematography: Pascal Marti
Editor: Laure Gardette
Cast: Marine Vacth, Geraldine Pailhas, Charlotte Rampling, Fredtic Pierrot, Fantin Ravat, Johan Laysen
After losing her virginity, Isabelle takes up a secret life as a call girl, meeting her clients for hotel-room trysts. Throughout, she remains curiously aloof, showing little interest in the encounters themselves or the money she makes.
NOWHERE MICHIGAN (2018)
Directed By: Robert Vornkahl
Written By: Andrew Beguin
Cinematography: Brian C. Harnick
Editor: Mike Api & Robert Vornkahl
Cast: Tequan Richmond, Jenna Boyd, Christina Scherer, Ashlie Atkinson, Richard Riehle, Seth Kirschner
David is fleeing from a murder, a pair of deadly con-men, and is inadvertently toting a bag full of crystal meth and cash with him. On the run, he ends up in a small, frozen, nowhere town in the heart of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.
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