The World’s End (2013)
Simon Pegg (Star Trek Into Darkness, Mission Impossible 4) stars as Gary King, the hot punker whose peak of popularity came from his high school days, after which his life just could never get on...
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Prince Avalanche (2013)
David Gordon Green (Your Highness, Undertow) returns to his art-housey roots as a small-scale, poignant independent filmmaker after the last few years making some fairly dumb, zany comedies, and proves he still has the magic...
Fruitvale Station (2013)
Fruitvale Station is based on the true story of the shooting of 22-year-old Oscar Grant in the early hours of New Year’s Day, 2009. The event was captured by various cell phones from bystanders to...
We’re the Millers (2013)
Jason Sudeikis (Epic, Horrible Bosses) stars as a life-long slacker named David, a two-bit pot dealer who gets into a tangle with a group of nasty thugs that sees his stash of $43,000 worth weed...
A Hijacking (2012)
A Hijacking is a fictional drama that is based on incidents that occurred in 2007-08, which Somali pirates took over shipping freighters in the open seas for a ransom of large sums of money...
2 Guns (2013)
2 Guns is a meat-headed buddy action comedy that sports a few twists and turns, and a smattering of solid yuks, but fails to truly connect due to Icelandic director Baltasar Kormakur’s lack of...
The Wolverine (2013)
The Wolverine is the second attempt at a spinoff Wolverine adventure, and while this is better than the last try, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, it does fall short of the pleasures of seeing Logan (Jackman) as part of...
20 Feet from Stardom (2013)
20 Feet from Stardom is filmmaker Morgan Neville’s documentary tribute to some of the best singers in the business. No, not the ones you buy CDs for; the best singers are often the ones...
Pacific Rim (2013)
Pacific Rim is Guillermo del Toro’s (Hellboy 2, Pan’s Labyrinth) homage to the old Japanese films featuring Kaiju (literal translation: “strange beast”, or the Americanized, “giant monster”), which were sci-fi flicks about grotesque, building-sized creatures who...
Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)
One of Woody Allen’s (The Purple Rose of Cairo, Broadway Danny Rose) finest films, Hannah and Her Sisters sees the esteemed filmmaker return to Manhattan to deliver one of his most insightfully satisfying stories yet. At its...