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Saturday, April 28, 2018
READY PLAYER ONE (2018)
Directed By: Steven Spielberg
Written By: Zak Penn & Ernest Cline
Based On The Novel By: Ernest Cline
Cinematography By: Janusz Kaminski
Editor: Sarah Broshar & Michael Kahn
Cast: Tye Sheridan, Olivia Cooke, Lena Waithe, Mark Rylance, Simon Pegg, Ben Mendelsohn, T.J. Miller, Philip Zhao, Claire Higgins, Susan Lynch, Pedrita Weeks, Ralph Ineson, Win Morasaki, Latetia Wright
In the year 2045, the real world is a harsh place. The only time Wade Watts truly feels alive is when he escapes to the OASIS, an immersive virtual universe where most of humanity spends their days. In the OASIS, you can go anywhere, do anything, be anyone-the only limits are your own imagination. The OASIS was created by the brilliant and eccentric James Halliday, who left his immense fortune and total control of the Oasis to the winner of a three-part contest he designed to find a worthy heir. When Wade conquers the first challenge of the reality-bending treasure hunt, he and his friends-aka the High Five-are hurled into a fantastical universe of discovery and danger to save the OASIS.
Labels:
2018,
Ben Mendelsohn,
Ernest Cline,
Janusz Kaminski,
Latetia Wright,
Lena Waithe,
Mark Rylance,
Olivia Cooke,
Simon Pegg,
Steven Spielberg,
T.J. Miller,
Tye Sheridan,
Zak Penn
CREATIVE CONTROL (2015)
Directed By: Benjamin Dickinson
Written By: Benjamin Dickinson & Micah Bloomberg
Cinematography By: Adam Newport-Berra
Editor: Megan Brooks & Andrew Hasse
Cast: Benjamin Dickinson, Dan Gill, Nora Zehetner, Alexia Rasmussen, Reggie Watts, Scott McInnes, Jessica Blank
In near future Brooklyn, an ad executive uses a new Augmented Reality technology to conduct an affair with his best friend's girlfriend...sort of.
BRIGSBY BEAR (2017)
Directed By: Dave McCary
Written By: Kevin Costello & Kyle Mooney
Cinematography By: Christian Sprenger
Editor: Jacob Craycroft
Cast: Kyle Mooney, Greg Kinnear, Michaela Watkins, Matt Walsh, Ryan Simpkins, Mark Hamill, Jane Adams, Beck Bennett, Alexa Demie, Claire Danes, Andy Samberg, Jorge Lendeborg Jr., Kate Lyn Sheil
Brigsby Bear Adventures is a children's TV show produced for an audience of one: James. When the show abruptly ends, James's life changes forever, and he sets out to finish the story himself.
Labels:
2017,
Andy Samberg,
Beck Bennett,
Claire Danes,
Comedy,
Coming Of Age,
Dave McCary,
DRAMA,
Greg Kinnear,
Jane Adams,
Kate Lyn Sheil,
Kyle Mooney,
Mark Hamill,
Matt Walsh,
Michaela Watkins,
Ryan Simpkins
SLEIGHT (2016)
Directed By: JD Dillard
Written By: JD Dillard & Alex Theurer
Cinematography By: Ed Wu
Editor: Joel Griffen
Cast: Jacob Lattimore, Dule Hill, Seychelle Gabriel, Storm Reid, Sasheer Zamata, Cameron Esposito, Donzaleigh Abernathy, Michael Villar
A young street magician is left to care for his little sister after their parents passing, and turns to illegal activities to keep a roof over their heads. When he gets in too deep, his sister is kidnapped, and he is forced to use his magic and brilliant mind to save her.
Thursday, April 19, 2018
MUTE (2018)
Story & Directed By: Duncan Jones
Written By: Duncan Jones & Michael Robert Johnson
Cinematography By: Gary Shaw
Editor: Laura Jennings & Barrett Heathcote
Cast: Alexander Skarsgard, Paul Rudd, Justin Theroux, Robert Sheehan, Noel Clarke, Seyneb Saleh, Dominic Monaghan, Rob Kazinsky
Berlin. Forty years from today. A roiling city of immigrants, where East crashes against West in a science-fiction Casablanca. Leo Beiler, a mute bartender has one reason and one reason only for living here, and she's disappeared. But when Leo's search takes him deeper into the city's underbelly, an odd pair of American surgeons seem to be the only recurring clue, and Leo can't tell if they can help, or who he should fear most.
KILL YOUR FRIENDS (2015)
Directed By: Owen Harris
Written By: John Niven (Based on his novel)
Cinematography By: Gustav Danielsson
Editor: Bill Smedley
Music By: Junkie XL
Cast: Nicholas Hoult, James Corden, Craig Roberts, Georgina King, Jim Piddock, Ed Skrein, Joseph Mawle, Thomas Conroy
An A&R man working at the height of the Britpop music craze goes to extremes in order to find his next hit.
AFTER THE SUNSET (2004)
Directed By: Brett Ratner
Written By: Craig Rosenberg & Paul Zbyszewski
Story By: Paul Zbyszewski
Cinematography By: Dante Spinotti
Editor: Mark Helfrich
Music By: Lalo Schifrin
Cast: Pierce Brosnan, Salma Hayek, Woody Harrelson, Naomie Harris, Don Cheadle, Chris Penn, Mykelti Williamson, Troy Garity, Obba Babatunde, Russell Hornsby, Michael Bowen, Jeff Garlin, Lisa Thornhill, Kate Walsh, Tom McGowan, Rachael Harris
After a successful last score, a master thief retires to an island paradise. His lifelong nemesis, a crafty FBI agent, washes ashore to ensure he's making good on his promise. The pair soon enters into a new game of cat-and-mouse.
CONSPIRACY THEORY (1997)
Directed By: Richard Donner
Written By: Brian Helgeland
Cinematography By: John Schwartzman
Editor: Kevin Stitt & Frank J. Urioste
Cast: Mel Gibson, Julia Roberts, Patrick Stewart, Cylk Cozart, Troy Garity, Sean Patrick Thomas, Peter Jacobson, Thomas McCarthy, Rick Hoffman
Jerry Fletcher is a man in love with a woman he observes from afar. She works for the government. Fletcher is an outspoken critic of that government. He has conspiracy theories for everything, from aliens to political assassinations. But soon, one of his theories finds itself to be accurate. But which one? Some dangerous people want him dead and the only person he trusts is that woman he loves but does not know.
Sunday, April 15, 2018
YOU WERE NEVER REALLY HERE (2018)
Written & Directed By: Lynn Ramsay
Based on the book By: Jonathan Ames
Cinematography By: Tom Townend
Editor: Joe Bini
Music By: Johnny Greenwood
Cast: Joaquin Phoenix, Alessandro Nivola, Judith Roberts, John Doman, Alex Mannette
Balancing between feverish dreamlike hallucinations of a tormented past and a grim disoriented reality, the grizzled Joe. a traumatised Gulf War veteran and now an unflinching hired gun who lives with his frail elderly mother has just finished successfully yet another job. With an infernal reputation of being a brutal man of results, the specialised in recovering missing teens enforcer will embark on a blood-drenched rescue mission, when Nina, the innocent 13-year-old daughter of an ambitious New York senator, never returns home. But amidst half-baked leads and a desperate desire to shake off his shoulders the heavy burden of a personal hell, Joe's frenzied plummet into the depths of Tartarus is inevitable, and every step Joe takes to flee the pain, brings him closer to the horrors of insanity. In the end, what is real, and what is a dream? Can there be a new chapter in Joe's life when he keeps running around in circles?
Saturday, April 14, 2018
MAYHEM (2017)
Directed By: Joe Lynch
Written By: Matias Caruso
Cinematography By: Steve Gainer
Editor: Josh Ethier
Cast: Steven Yuen, Samara Weaving, Steven Brand, Dallas Roberts, Kerry Fox, Mark Frost, Caroline Chikezie, Annamaria Serda, Nina Senicar
Mayhem tells the story of a virus that infects a corporate law office on the day attorney Derek Cho is framed by a co-worker and wrongfully fired. The infection is capable of making people act out their wildest impulses. Trapped in the quarantined building, our hero is forced to savagely fight tooth and nail for not only his job but his life.
LAKEVIEW TERRACE (2008)
Directed By: Neil LaBute
Written By: David Loughery & Howard Korder
Story By: David Loughery
Cinematography By: Rogier Stoffers
Editor: Joel Plotch
Cast: Samuel L. Jackson, Kerry Washington, Patrick Wilson, Ron Glass, Justin Chambers, Jay Hernandez, Regine Nehy
In California, the Caucasian Chris Mattson and his African-American wife Lisa Mattson move to a house in a gated community. The racist and dysfunctional next-door neighbor is the abusive LAPD Officer Abel Turner who feels uncomfortable with the relationship of the newcomers and transforms their lives into Hell on Earth.
TITUS (1999)
Written & Directed By: Julie Taymor
Based On The Play Written By: William Shakespeare
Cinematography By: Luciano Tovoli
Editor: Francoise Bonnot
Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Jessica Lange, Harry Lennix, Jonathan Rhys Myers, Colm Feore, Matthew Rhys, James Frain, Alan Cumming, Laura Fraser
War begets revenge. Victorious general, Titus Andronicus, returns to Rome with hostages: Tamora queen of the Goths and her sons. He orders the eldest hewn to appease the Roman dead. He declines the proffered emperor's crown, nominating Saturninus, the last ruler's venal elder son. Saturninus, to spite his brother Bassianus, demands the hand of Lavinia, Titus's daughter. When Bassianus, Lavinia, and Titus's sons flee in protest, Titus stands against them and slays one of his own. Saturninus marries the honey-tongued Tamora, who vows vengeance against Titus. The ensuing maelstrom serves up tongues, hands, rape, adultery, racism, and Goth-meat pie. There's irony in which two sons survive.
HARDCORE (2004)
Written & Directed By: Dennis Iliadis
Based On The Novel By: Aleka Laskou
Cinematography By: Thimios Bakatakis
Editor: Yorgos Mavropsaridis
Cast: Katerina Tsavalou, Danae Skiadi, Iaonnis Papazisis, Dimitris Liolios
Leaving behind a hard life with their families, two young girls end up in a brothel, fall in love and support one another against the adversities and violence of the night.
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