May 22, 2018
Dir: David Cronenberg | Jennifer Jason-Leigh, Jude Law, Ian Holm, Willem Dafoe
Visionary director David Cronenberg (Videodrome) challenges the boundaries of reality in sci-fi thriller eXistenZ. During a closed-door demonstration of her...
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May 22, 2018
Dir: Stephen Frears | Anjelica Huston, John Cusack, Annette Bening | Thriller |
Directed by British auteur Stephen Frears (Dangerous Liaisons) and producer Martin Scorsese, The Grifters, is a taut thriller that...
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May 14, 2018
xDir.: Stanley Kramer; Cast: Spencer Tracy, Frederic March, Gene Kelly, Dick York, Harry Morgan, Claude Akins, Donna Anderson; USA 1960, 128 min.
Director Stanley Kramer (1913-2001) often used his films for...
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May 12, 2018
Dir Tom Gries | Writer: Alistair Maclean | Cast Charles Bronson, Jill Ireland, Richard Crenna | US | 95’
With shades of Narrow Margin to its locomotive setting BREAKHEART PASS is a Western...
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May 9, 2018
“You don’t make up for your sins in Church. You do it on the streets. You do it at home. The rest is bullshit, and you know it”
Mean Streets was...
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May 6, 2018
Dir: Feng Xiaogang | China | Historical Drama | 148'
Feng Xiaogang (I Am Madame Bovary) is widely considered as China's answer to Stephen Spielberg, and he certainly proves himself in...
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Apr 22, 2018
Dir.: Delbert Mann; Cast: Ernest Borgnine, Betsy Blair, Esther Minicotti, Joe Mantell; USA 1955, 90 min.
Based on the TV play by Paddy Chayevsky, who would later script Network (1976), Delbert...
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Apr 17, 2018
Dir/Writer: Kiyoshi Kurosawa | Japan | Mystery Thriller | 111'
Twenty minutes into Cure (Kairos) I was reminded of David Fincher’s Seven, and the first Japanese Ring film, both causing me...
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Apr 16, 2018
Dir: Rob Curry | Tim Plester | Musical biopic Doc | UK | 94'
Rob Curry and Tm Plester (Way of the Morris) retain a 1970s aesthetic for this lyrical paean...
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