Thirty-something-year-old Lori (Rose Byrne) is trying to get over being dumped by her movie star boyfriend, and if truth be told she is feeling more than a bit sorry for herself. She is also on tenterhooks waiting to see if the new TV Show she has written gets picked up by the Networks. Therefore the very … Continue reading
The official West German government’s hunt for war criminals in the 1950’s was getting nowhere, and a whole slew of prominent Nazis who had been responsible for crimes against humanity were still at large. By now many SS officers had simply swapped their uniforms in exchange for a desk job in one of several important governmental … Continue reading
Ever since writer/director Asghar Farhadi became the first Iranian filmmaker to win a Oscar and a Golden Globe in 2011 for his stunning movie A Separation, he has continued to helm compelling dramas of domestic discord that show the uneasiness of women’s roles in contemporary Iranian society. The Salesman starts very dramatically with the impending collapse … Continue reading
Writer/director Paul Dalio’s mesmerizing new drama about a young couple of manic depressives who fall in and out of love takes on a whole new sense of meaning when you appreciate that he has had his own similar struggles being bi-polar. This heartbreaking tale is of two good looking poets : Carla has published a … Continue reading
From John Hillcoat the Australian filmmaker who gave us the enthralling apocalyptic thriller The Road comes a new modern day heist movie about a bunch of corrupt Atlanta cops and ex-soldiers who are about to pull off one last job for the Russian-Israeli Mafia. The gang’s leader Michael Atwood (a terrific Chiwetel Ejiofor) is pulled up … Continue reading