Archive for December, 2011

A WARRIOR’S HEART

Friday, December 2nd, 2011

Genre: Action-Adventure

Release Year: 2011

Runtime: 127

Language:

Director: Michael F. Sears

Plot: After his father’s death, high school lacrosse star Conor Sullivan becomes self-destructive but through a new love interest and his passion for this sport, Conor discovers the warrior within himself.

 

Outrage

Friday, December 2nd, 2011

Genre: Action-Adventure

Release Year: 2011

Runtime: 113

Language: Japanese

Director: Takeshi Kitano

Plot: In a ruthless battle for power, several yakuza clans vie for the favor of their head family in the Japanese underworld. The rival bosses seek to rise through the ranks by scheming and making allegiances sworn over saké.

Long-time yakuza Ôtomo (writer/director Kitano, using his screen name “Beat Takeshi”) has seen his kind go from elaborate body tattoos and severed fingertips to becoming important players on the stock market. Theirs is a never-ending struggle to end up on top, or at least survive, in a corrupt world where there are no heroes but constant betrayal and vengeance…

 

Shame

Friday, December 2nd, 2011

Genre: Drama

Release Year: 2011

Runtime: 114

Language: English

Director: Steve McQueen

Plot: The private life of a man addicted to sex is disrupted when his sister, Cissy, played by Mulligan, shows up for an unannounced – and indefinite – visit.

 

Answers to Nothing

Friday, December 2nd, 2011

Genre: Drama

Release Year: 2011

Runtime: 136

Language: English

Director: Matthew Leutwyler

Plot: ANSWERS TO NOTHING is based on an original story by Matthew Leutwyler, who also wrote the screenplay with Gillian Vigman. The film was produced by Amanda Marshall of LA-based production company, Ambush Entertainment (SUPER) and Sim Sarna. Ambush’s financing arm, Cold Iron Pictures, financed the film.

 

Coriolanus

Friday, December 2nd, 2011

Genre: Drama

Release Year: 2011

Runtime: 135

Language: English (International)

Director: Ralph Fiennes

Plot: Caius Martius Coriolanus’ (Ralph Fiennes), a revered and feared Roman General is at odds with the city of Rome and his fellow citizens. Pushed by his controlling and ambitious mother Volumnia (Vanessa Redgrave) to seek the exalted and powerful position of Consul, he is loath to ingratiate himself with the masses whose votes he needs in order to secure the office. When the public refuses to support him, Coriolanus’s anger prompts a riot that culminates in his expulsion from Rome. The banished hero then allies himself with his sworn enemy Tullus Aufidius (Gerard Butler) to take his revenge on the city.

 

This Must Be the Place

Thursday, December 1st, 2011

Genre: Drama

Release Year: 2011

Runtime: 143

Language: English

Director: Paolo Sorrentino

Plot: “THIS MUST BE THE PLACE” premiered at this year’s Cannes Film Festival and stars Sean Penn as an ageing rock star who decides to find his father’s tormentor, an ex-Nazi war criminal who’s living somewhere in the US.

 

Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol

Thursday, December 1st, 2011

Genre: Action-Adventure

Release Year: 2011

Runtime: 143

Language: English

Director: Brad Bird

Plot: This is not just another mission.

The IMF is shut down when it’s implicated in a global terrorist bombing plot. Ghost Protocol is initiated and Ethan Hunt and his rogue new team must go undercover to clear their organization’s name. No help, no contact, off the grid. You have never seen a mission grittier and more intense than this.