HIGH FLYING BIRD (2019)

Directed By: Steven Soderbergh 
Written By: Tarell Alvin McCraney 
Cinematography: Peter Andrews 
Editor: Mary Ann Bernard 


Cast: Andre Holland, Melvin Gregg, Eddie Tavares, Zazie Beetz, Kyle Maclachlan, Zachary Quinto, Bill Duke, Sonja Sohn, Caleb McLaughlin 


In the midst of a pro basketball lockout, sports agent Ray Burke finds himself caught in the face-off between the league and the players. His career is on the line, but Ray is playing for higher stakes. With only 72 hours to pull off a daring plan, he outmaneuvers all the power-players as he uncovers a loophole that could change the game forever. The outcome raises questions of who owns the game - and who ought to.

NATIVE SON (2019)

Directed By: Rashid Johnson 
Written By: Suzan Lori-Parks 
Based on the Novel By: Richard Wright 
Cinematography: Matthew Libatique 
Editor: Brad Turner 

Cast: Ashton Sanders, Kiki Layne, Margaret Qualley, Nick Robinson, Bill Camp, Elizabeth Marvel, David Alan Grier, Sanaa Lathan, Lamar Johnson 


A young African-American living in Chicago enters into a seductive new world of money and power after he is hired as a chauffeur for an affluent businessman.

CARNAGE (2011)

Directed By: Roman Polanski 
Written By: Yasmina Reza & Roman Polanski 
Based on The Play By: Yasmina Reza 
Translation By: Michael Katmis 
Cinematography: Pawel Edelman 
Editor: Herve De Luze 

Cast: Jodie Foster, Kate Winslet, John C. Reilly, Christoph Waltz 

In New York's Brooklyn Bridge park, eleven year old Zachary strikes his eleven year old classmate Ethan. The boy's parents learn of the fight and meet to deal with the incident. Although the meeting starts civilized, it quickly degenerates after an unfortunate incident, and soon, their meeting is not only about their boys' fight, but also the couple's fitness as parents.

REVERSAL OF FORTUNE (1990)

Directed By: Barbet Schroeder 
Written By: Nicholas Kazan 
Based on the book By: Alan Dershowitz 
Cinematography By: Luciano Tovoli 
Editor: Lee Percy 


Cast: Jeremy Irons, Ron Silver, Glenn Close, Annabella Sciorra, Uta Hagen, Christine Baranski, Julie Hagerty, Fisher Stevens, Jack Gilpin, Felicity Huffman, Bill Camp, Lisa Gay Hamilton 


Alan Dershowitz a brilliant professor of law is hired by wealthy socialite Claus von Bulow to attempt to overturn his two convictions for attempted murder of his extremely wealthy wife. Based on a true story the film concentrates not on the trial like other legal thrillers, but on the preparatory work that Dershowitz and his students put in as they attempt to disprove the prosecution's case and achieve the Reversal of Fortune of the title.

ANNA (2019)

Written & Directed By: Luc Besson 
Cinematography By: Thierry Arbogast 
Editor: Julien Rey 

Cast: Sasha Luss, Cillian Murphy, Luke Evans, Helen Mirren, Lera Abova, Alexander Petrov, Anna Krippa 

Anna is a young beautiful girl who managed to make a career in the fashion world. More recently, she was a simple model from Moscow, but in a very short time she was able to enter the elite. Once she entered the hotel of an influential and very dangerous person, after which a whole mountain of corpses was discovered there. The girl is being interrogated by special services, but she has absolutely nothing to tell on this fact. She looks scared, and no one suspects her. Anna goes free and begins preparing for a new business. Under the guise of a fragile beauty, is hiding the world's most dangerous assassin, who has not yet misfired.

DEATH WISH (2018)

Directed By: Eli Roth 
Written By: Joe Carnahan 
Based On The Novel By: Brian Garfield 
Based On the original Motion Picture Screenplay By: Wendell Mayes 
Cinematography: Rogier Stoffers 
Editor: Mark Goldblatt & Yvonne Valdez 


Cast: Bruce Willis, Elisabeth Shue, Vincent D’Onofrio, Camilla Morrone, Dean Norris, Beau Knapp, Kimberly Elise, Kirby Bliss Blanton, Len Cariou, Jack Kesy, Stephen McHattie, Jaslene Gonzalez 


Dr. Paul Kersey is a surgeon who only sees the aftermath of his city's violence as it's rushed into his ER -until his wife and college-age daughter are viciously attacked in their suburban home. With the police overloaded with crimes, Paul, burning for revenge, hunts for his family's assailants to deliver justice. As the anonymous slayings of criminals grabs the media's attention, the city wonders if this deadly avenger is a guardian angel...or a grim reaper.

PEPPERMINT (2018)

Directed By: Pierre Norel 
Written By: Chad St. John 
Cinematography By: David Lanzenberg 
Editor: Frederic Thoraval 


Cast: Jennifer Garner, John Gallagher Jr., John Ortiz, Juan Pablo Raba, Annie Ilonzeh, Cliff “Method Man” Smith, Tyson Ritter, Richard Cabral 


An unidentified woman is engaged in a brutal fight with a man in a car and finally dispatches him with a shot to the head. Five years earlier, the same woman, Riley North, is working as a bank teller in Los Angeles struggling to make ends meet. Her husband Chris owns a failing mechanic shop. They have a ten-year-old daughter, Carly. Chris' friend tries to talk him into robbing Diego Garcia, a powerful drug lord. Chris turns him down, but not before Garcia has already discovered his involvement and ordered his men to make an example of him. Riley and Chris take Carly out for pizza and to a carnival for her birthday since no one showed up to her party. At the carnival, Carly orders peppermint ice cream. As the family walks to the car, Diego's men gun down her husband and daughter in a drive-by shooting. She is wounded, but survives.

LONDON BOULEVARD (2010)

Written & Directed By: William Monahan 
Based on the novel by: Ken Bruen 
Cinematography: Chris Menges 
Editor: Dody Dorn & Robb Sullivan 


Cast: Colin Farell, Keira Knightley, David Thewlis, Ray Winstone, Stephen Graham, Ophelia Lovibond, Anna Friel, Ben Chaplin, Eddie Marsan, Sanjeev Bhaskar 


Fresh out of prison, Mitchel wants nothing to do with crime but accepts a kip from Billy, a marginal grafter, and accompanies Billy on rent collection trips. He's also old school, wanting revenge on two youths for assaulting a mendicant he's befriended. He's got a strung-out sister to protect, and he's offered a job protecting a famous actress from paparazzi. The plot lines join when Michael finds himself attracted to the actress and Billy's Mob boss, Gant, finds ways to force Michael work for him. He also warns Michael off revenge against the assailants of his friend. What are Michael's options: is there any way to avoid Gant, protect his sister, and find a path to love?

BRIGHTBURN (2019)

Directed By: David Yarovesky 
Written By: James Gunn & Brian Gunn 
Cinematography: Michael Dellatorre 
Editor: Andrew S. Eisen & Peter Gvozdas 


Cast: Jackson A. Dunn, Elizabeth Banks, David Denman, Meredith Hagner, Matt Jones, Becky Wahlstrom Steve Agee, Emmie Hunter 


What if a child from another world crash-landed on Earth, but instead of becoming a hero to mankind, he proved to be something far more sinister? This film seems to be more about the origin of a supevillian by a kind of reverse morals of Superman. That entices the audience and could have been really strong and powerful, but instead goes more as a fantasy horror film.

THELMA (2017)

Directed By: Joachim Trier 
 Written By: Eskil Vogt & Joachim Trier 
Cinematography: Jakob Ihre 
Editor: Oliver Bugge Coutte 


Cast: Elili Harboe, Kaya Wilkins, Henrik Rafaelsen, Ellen Doritt Petersen, Anders Mossling 


A confused religious girl tries to deny her feelings for a female friend who's in love with her. This causes her suppressed subconsciously-controlled psychokinetic powers to reemerge with devastating results.

LIMITLESS (2011)

Directed By: Neil Burger 
Written By: Leslie Dixon 
Based on the Novel By: Alan Glynn 
Cinematography: Jo Willems 
Editor: Tracy Adams & Naomi Geraghty 

Cast: Bradley Cooper, Robert DeNiro, Abbie Cornish, Anna Friel, Johnny Whitworth, Ned Eisenberg, Robert John Burke, T.V. Capiro 


With the help of a mysterious pill that enables the user to access one hundred percent of his brain abilities, a struggling writer becomes a financial wizard, but it also puts him in a new world with lots of dangers.

LETHAL WEAPON 4 (1998)

Directed By: Richard Donner 
Written By: Channing Gibson 
 Story By: Jonathan Lemkin, Alfred Gough & Miles Millar 
Based On Characters Created By: Shane Black 
Cinematography: Andrzej Bartkowiak 
Editor: Dallas Puett, Kevin Stitt, Eric Strand & Frank J. Urioste 


Cast: Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Jet Li, Joe Pesci, Chris Rock, Rene Russo, Kim Chan, Steve Kahan, Darlene Love, Richard Riehle, Mary Ellen Trainor, Ebonie Smith 


With personal crises and age weighing in on them, LAPD officers Riggs and Murtaugh must contend with deadly Chinese triads that are trying to free their former leaders out of prison and onto American soil.

MOVIES WATCHED IN OCTOBER (2019)

MOVIES WATCHED IN OCTOBER 2019


IN THE SHADOW IF THE MOON (THRILLER) 6/10






SHAFT (2019)(ACTION)(COMEDY) 7/10






HORROR NOIRE: HISTORY OF BLACK HORROR (DOCUMENTARY) 7/10






TIGERS ARE NOT AFRAID (FOREIGN)(SPAIN)(HORROR)(FANTASY) 8/10






*OUT OF SIGHT (THRILLER)(CRIME)(COMEDY) 8/10









LUCKY DAY (COMEDY)(THRILLER) 5/10






THE JOKER (DRAMA) (FANTASY) 7/10








THE RANGER (SLASHER)(HORROR) 6/10






EL CAMINO (DRAMA) 7/10






LITTLE MONSTERS (HORROR)(COMEDY) 7/10







TUFF TURF (TEEN)(DRAMA) 5/10







THE COLOR WHEEL (COMEDY) 7/10








JOHNNY GUITAR (WESTERN) 7/10






BLACULA (BLAXPLOITATION)(CULT) (HORROR) 7/10








SUGAR HILL (BLAXPLOITATION)(CULT)(HORROR) 7/10







CATFIGHT (COMEDY) 7/10







GREENER GRASS (CULT)(COMEDY) 5/10







THE LAUNDROMAT (DRAMA)(COMEDY) 7/10







*MY MAN GODFREY (CLASSIC)(COMEDY) 10/10








TORSO (HORROR)(THRILLER)(ITALY)(FOREIGN) 6/10








TRIPLE FRONTIER (ACTION)(ADVENTURE) 7/10








BLOW JOB (ITALY)(FOREIGN)(EROTIC)(FANTASY)(HORROR) 5/10








JOJO RABBIT (COMEDY)(DRAMA) 9/10








*FRIDAY THE 13th PART VII: THE NEW BLOOD (HORROR)6/10








*FRIDAY THE 13th PART IV: THE FINAL FRIDAY (HORROR) 7/10





*HALLOWEEN 2 (HORROR) 5/10
 






PARASITE (DRAMA)(FOREIGN)(SOUTH KOREA) 10/10
 







THE DEATH OF DICK LONG (COMEDY)(DRAMA) 4/10
 





TRICK OR TREAT (TEEN)(HORROR) 6/10
 






THE NIGHT OF THE VIRGIN (SPAIN)(HORROR)(FOREIGN)(COMEDY) 7/10

 







DOLEMITE IS MY NAME! (COMEDY) 7/10

 






THE LIGHTHOUSE (CULT)(HORROR)(THRILLER) 7/10





TELEVISION SPECIALS, TELEVISION MOVIES, STAND-UP AND SPECIALS
 


NIKKI GLASER: BANGIN’ 6/10
 





TOP BOY: SUMMERHOUSE (SERIES 3) 7/10
 





DAYBREAK (SEASON 1) 7/10
 

 



GHOSTS OF SUGARLAND (DOCUMENTARY) 8/10
 




HELLO PRIVILEGE: IT’S ME CHELSEA (DOCUMENTARY) 7/10