Friday, January 26, 2018

I, TONYA (2017)



Directed By: Craig Gillespie 
 Written By: Steven Rogers 
Cinematography By: Nikolas Karakatsanis 
Editor: Tatiana S. Riegel 


Cast: Margot Robie, Sebastian Stan, Alison Janney, Paul Walter Hauser, Julianne Nicholson, Bobby Canavale, Bojana Novakovic, McKenna Grace 


Competitive ice skater Tonya Harding rises amongst the ranks at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships, but her future in the activity is thrown into doubt when her ex-husband intervenes.

HOT ROD (2007)



Directed By: Akiva Schaffer 
Written By: Pam Brady 
Cinematography By: Andrew Dunn 
Editor: Malcolm Campbell 


Cast: Andy Samberg, Jorma Taccone, Isla Fisher, Danny McBride, Bill Hader, Sissy Spacek, Ian McShane, Will Arnett, Chris Parnell, Britt Irvin 


Rod Kimble is a naïf, a slacker living in a small US town with his mom, his younger brother, and his stepfather whose respect he craves. He also misses his dead dad, whom he thinks was Evel Knievel's back-up. Rod, a man-child, believes that he is a stunt man. When his stepfather needs an operation, with help from his brother and his slacker pals, Rod hatches a plan to set a school-bus-jumping record on his moped. First, his crew and he have to raise money to rent the buses and build the ramp. Trouble is, Rod's inept at his chosen career. Looming failure is complicated by the return of Denise, Rod's next-door neighbor and secret heartthrob, who is home from college. Is public humiliation at hand?

CYMBELINE (2014)



Written & Directed By: Michael Almereyda 
Based On The Play By: William Shakespeare 
Cinematography By: Tim Orr 
Editor: John Scott Cook & Barbara Tulliver 


Cast: Ed Harris, Milla Jovovich, Delroy Lindo, Ethan Hawke, Kevin Corrigan, Penn Badgely, Anton Yelchin, Dakota Johnson, Bill Pullman, John Leguizamo, James Ransone, Vondie Curtis-Hall, J.D. Williams, Spenser Treat Clark 

 A gritty story of a take-no-prisoners war between dirty cops and an outlaw biker gang. A drug kingpin is driven to desperate measures. You would need a big name cast to keep the audiences interest. Unless you have Shakespeare purist fans. As there is no real style and feels closed in and claustrophobic

RISE: BLOOD HUNTER (2007)



Written & Directed By: Sebastian Gutierrez 
Cinematography By: John Toll 
Editor: Lisa Bromwell & Robb Sullivan 


Cast: Lucy Liu, Michael Chiklis, Robert Forester, Carla Gugino, Holt McCallany, Mako, James D’Arcy, Margo Harshman, Simon Rex, Samaire Armstrong, Zach Gilford, Fran Kranz, Elden Henson, Nick Lachey, Marilyn Manson 


A reporter wakes up in a morgue and finds herself a member of the undead, before vowing revenge against the sect which put her there.